WorkSafe is investigating the death of a teenager at a farm in the Wheatbelt over the weekend. 

State agriculture minister Jackie Jarvis has announced an $8.6 million funding package to support agricultural industries and rural communities impacted by the current drought conditions.

The WAFarmers grain section president has welcomed a modification approved by a global certification system which exempts WA farmers from some rules around aerial spraying, but he says it doesn't go far enough.

A high profile farmer from the wheatbelt says it's tragic that a global certification system has approved a modification for WA growers that is more lenient on the rules around aerial spraying.

The WA Livestock Exporters Association says a proposal to reduce the moratorium period on the live sheep trade by sea this year could see an extra 20-thousand head shipped out of Western Australia, but that comes with a number of caveats.

Over the weekend, a convoy of 8 trucks loaded with fodder travelled from Esperance on the south coast to stations based in the Mid West and Gascoyne.

Rural news and events from Western Australia and the nation.

One of the organisers of a dry season update meeting held in the state's south west yesterday says he was very pleased to see hundreds of farmers at the event, but was disappointed no one from the state government attended.

Over 200 people from 10 different shires attended a dry season update at Yornup, 270 kilometres south of Perth in the state's south-west, this morning.

Woolworths and Coles executives have been grilled in Canberra today at a Senate Select Committee inquiry on supermarket prices.