After a slow start to the season, growers on the South Coast are finally enjoying some decent rainfall, with totals above 50mm recorded in the region.

The state's main grain handler, the CBH Group, has retained its number one position as Australia's largest co-operative with a turnover of $6.23 billion for the fiscal year 2021, and a net profit of almost $500 million.

WA's mining and resources sector contributed 99 billion dollars to Australia's economy in 2021-22, according to a survey of members of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia. 

An Aboriginal Corporation working to become a Local Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Service says it will have a transition program ready ahead of the implementation of the new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act this weekend. 

Former Labor leader and Primary Industries minister, Simon Crean, is being remembered as a man of great integrity, who made Australia "a better and fairer country".  

Australia's first soil carbon credits have been granted under the new 2021 methodology.

The Pastoralists and Graziers Association says momentum is growing for a farmer rally on the steps of parliament house, to protest against the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACHA), due to start on July 1, but due to the liability and risks associated it will not be held. 

There was a heated exchange in WA Parliament question time over the new ACHA.

The PKKP Aboriginal Corporation says the debate over the ACHA has become "sidetracked", and the act should "not be delayed".

More than 150 people attended an information session on the ACHA in Karridale, south of Perth.

A Great Southern wine producer is calling for a review into Western Australia's prescribed burning practices, meanwhile others would like to see more prescribed burning in the state. 

The US regulator has approved chicken products made in a lab out of chicken cells, but a researcher says the industry still has huge hurdles to overcome in Australia. 

Northern WA's aquaculture and recreational fishing industry is concerned by a proposal to close Broome's North Regional TAFE aquaculture centre by the end of 2023.

The gap between livestock prices in WA and the eastern states is narrowing and reducing opportunities for local producers to sell stock interstate.

The United Kingdom's only superfine merino wool grower is considered unique by her neighbours.

Western Australia's two key farm lobby groups say a string of state and federal government legislation, with implications for the agricultural sector, has lead to an increase in enquiries about membership.

A massive cropping and livestock portfolio with properties across rural Victoria and Western Australia's South Coast could sell for as much as $400 million, with strong interest from US-based pension funds.

The price of glyphosate has fallen to below $4 per litre, after reaching as high as $12 per litre during the COVID pandemic.

The late pastoralist and horse trainer, Don Hammarquist, has been remembered as a 'true statesman'.

A major global mining conference being held in Karratha this week is looking closely at the livability and sustainability of mining communities. 

Mining giant, Rio Tinto, believes a track fault is the most likely cause of a recent train derailment in the Pilbara.

Nearly 30,000 people have signed a petition calling for the new Aboriginal cultural heritage laws to be delayed by six months - a new record for Western Australia.

Premier Roger Cook does not expect the 30,000 signatures to delay the implementation of the Act.

CEO of the National Native Title Council, Jamie Lowe, says there are kinks to iron out, but he would like to see the Act implemented from 1 July.

Aboriginal Elder, Aubrey Lowe, has decades of experience assessing important sites, and says the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act should be delayed until the new laws are clarified.

Australia's cattle herd is projected to reach its highest level in a decade, according to a new report by Meat and Livestock Australia.

The Philippines is set to start exporting mangoes to Australia for the first time, but details are limited on just how many are due to arrive in the coming weeks.

It's been a frustrating start to winter for some sheep producers on the south coast, who are hoping for more rainfall.

A group of about 20 representatives from the WA sheep supply chain are at parliament house today, calling on state MPs to pressure the federal government on its policy to shut down the live sheep trade by sea.

The federal government's policy to end the live sheep trade by sea has inspired Tambellup sheep farmer, Andrew Bradshaw, to write a song titled "The Phase Out".

.Andrew and Tess Herbert are the 13th winners of the Kondinin Group and ABC Rural Australian Farmer of the Year award.

The Independent Panel which will report to Agriculture minister Murray Watt on the phase out of live export of sheep by sea is meeting in Geraldton this morning.

The Carnarvon Growers Association says producers in the region are incredibly anxious about the implications of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, and are concerned there will be no translator at the workshop for the region's Vietnamese growers.

Elders managing director, Mark Allison, says he delayed his recently announced retirement plans after the board convinced him to stay on. 

Life is about to dramatically change for some of Australia's most isolated Indigenous communities, following a billion dollar investment in the Outback Way.

The Boyanup Saleyards could have a new home, in plans from the Shire of Capel to develop a new agribusiness precinct in the district. 

A machinery collector is fighting to stop the export of a vintage tractor, which he says should never have received federal approval for export. 

There are now over 22,000 signatures on a petition calling for a delay to the implementation of the Aboriginal and Cultural Heritage Act, however the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs says it will not be delayed.

More than 200 people turned up for an education workshop on the new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act in Geraldton yesterday.

Global agribusiness' Bunge and Viterra, have agreed to a merger. The deal will create a $34 billion-US dollar global grain giant.

The minister for Aboriginal Affairs Tony Buti says the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act will commence, as planned, on the first of July.