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Mormon Church buys three-farm North Star Aggregation

The Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern NSW to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 17, 2025

News

Tariffs temper new-crop outlook for GM canola

Tariffs in place against Canadian canola, meal and oil could have a ripple effect in Australian production by trimming the area sown to GM varieties in WA in particular…Read More

Liz Wells, March 17, 2025

Logistics

ACCC watches proposed Hutchison sale

The ACCC has signalled its interest to further investigate the proposed sale of Hutchison Ports Australia’s assets to the BlackRock consortium which includes MSC…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 17, 2025

News

Grains Australia, AEGIC sign MoU with China’s Academy of NAFRA

Grains Australia and AEGIC, have signed an MoU with the Academy of NAFRA aimed at supporting positive collaboration between the Australian and Chinese grains industries. ..Read More

Grain Central, March 17, 2025

News

Twba lunch with Bruce Vandersee: A front-row seat to 60 years of farming innovation

How a small family business became an ag machinery powerhouse that helped to drive the growth of the farming sector across four states will take centre stage at a Rural Press Club of Qld lunch on the opening day of the Toowoomba Royal Show on Thursday, March 27…Read More

Grain Central, March 17, 2025

Canola Yield Tool helps growers factor IWM into varietal selection

Growers are invited to gain insights into canola yield potential for varieties from most major seed companies, and across seed technologies, using a tool built on data from Pacific Seeds’ trials across Australia…Read More

Grain Central, March 17, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 17 March 2025

Damaging wind, dust storm, torments US. Canada reels at tariff impost by China. Rain relieves arable WA. Much of eastern Australia desiccates…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 17, 2025

Property

Nicoletti’s Connawarrie sells to WA locals

Five local farmers have paid a combined $35M for John Nicoletti’s cropping and sheep aggregation in WA’s Great Southern region…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 14, 2025

Markets

Feedgrain Focus: Sorghum lifts on tariff fall-out

Liz Wells, March 13, 2025

Cropping

Biologicals, novel approaches no match for herbicides: Outlook

Emma Alsop, March 13, 2025

Markets

Australia’s Jan canola exports at 788,094t up 34pc from Dec

Liz Wells, March 13, 2025

News

Victrato approved in time for wheat, barley planting

Liz Wells, March 12, 2025

Cropping

‘Exceptional’ sorghum harvest wraps up on Downs

Emma Alsop, March 12, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 14 March 2025

Lachstock Consulting, March 14, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 11 March 2025

Oilseed price eases overnight as trade policy drives uncertainty…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 11, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 12 March 2025

Markets see red. US wheat balance sheet gets a little heavier. USDA leaves tariff effect out of its calculations, for now…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 12, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 13 March 2025

Market slaps Winnipeg canola, brushes off Odesa port missile deaths. Bond market eases. Mr Trump calls boom…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 13, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 14 March 2025

Futures rally, $A eases. HRW books its second biggest sale week as recent cheap price boosts demand…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 14, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 17 March 2025

Damaging wind, dust storm, torments US. Canada reels at tariff impost by China. Rain relieves arable WA. Much of eastern Australia desiccates…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 17, 2025

Industry Dashboard

Carbon Trading Market

Aust. Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) - $/tonne of CO2 equiv.

Today

33.15

Source: Jarden

$A / $US

Updated 7am daily

Today

0.6324

Source: NAB

ASX Market Index

17 Mar 2025 (updated 10am daily)

Company	Price	Trending
Elders	$8.96
Australian Agricultural Co	$1.52
Graincorp	$7.29
Ridley	$2.12
Woolworths	$36.64
Wellard	$0.06

Source: ASX

SOI Graph

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Today

7.59

Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Wheat

APW1 delivered Melbourne

Last Week

349

Source: Lachstock Consulting

Barley

FB1 delivered Melbourne

Today

326

Canola

Spot delivered Melbourne

Today

745

Source: Lachstock Consulting

Sorghum

Sorghum track Newcastle

Today

347

Source: Lachstock Consulting

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Tariffs temper new-crop outlook for GM canola

Tariffs in place against Canadian canola, meal and oil could have a ripple effect in Australian production by trimming the area sown to GM varieties in WA in particular…Read More

Liz Wells, March 17, 2025

Grains Australia, AEGIC sign MoU with China’s Academy of NAFRA

Grains Australia and AEGIC, have signed an MoU with the Academy of NAFRA aimed at supporting positive collaboration between the Australian and Chinese grains industries. ..Read More

Grain Central, March 17, 2025

Twba lunch with Bruce Vandersee: A front-row seat to 60 years of farming innovation

Grain Central, March 17, 2025

Victrato approved in time for wheat, barley planting

Syngenta’s seed treatment to counter crown rot is available ahead of the winter cereal planting window, and is seen as a potential boon for durum in particular…Read More

Liz Wells, March 12, 2025

Weather

Weekly rainfall update 11 March 2025 + outlook

TC Alfred brought widespread heavy to intense rainfall from March 5 across south-eastern Qld and north-eastern NSW, both before and after making landfall north of Brisbane late on March 8…Read More

Guest Author, March 11, 2025

Weekly rainfall update 4 March 2025 + outlook

Cold fronts and associated troughs brought scattered showers and isolated storms to mostly coastal parts of Australia in the past week, and the outlook is focused on Tropical Cyclone Alfred off the south Qld coast…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, March 3, 2025

Weekly rainfall update 25 February 2025 + outlook

Further rain is expected along Australia’s northern and north-east coast and adjacent areas as intense systems form of the WA and Qld coast…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, February 25, 2025

Weekly rainfall update 18 February 2025 + outlook

Following a wet week for much of northern and far eastern Australia, limited rain is expected in the coming week outside the east coast and ranges, northern Australia, and WA’s far south…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, February 18, 2025

Cropping

Biologicals, novel approaches no match for herbicides: Outlook

The emerging biologicals industry and other novel approaches to weed control are no match for herbicides as the major means of crop protection, an ABARES Outlook forum heard…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 13, 2025

‘Exceptional’ sorghum harvest wraps up on Downs

The sorghum harvest in southern Qld and northern NSW has largely beaten the rain from ex TC Alfred, with the Darling Downs in particular reporting bumper yields…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 12, 2025

Yield variation burdens economics of cropping: Neale

Tim Neale says mapping, targeted soil testing, and more accessible variable-rate technology can be used to counter the 200-300pc yield variation common within Australian paddocks. ..Read More

Liz Wells, March 7, 2025

Growers hope for mungbean boost from Cyclone Alfred

GROWERS are hopeful Tropical Cyclone Alfred will deliver the rainfall required to support the potential of the 2024-25 mungbean crop. Most mungbean crops in Queensland and New South Wales need..Read More

Emma Alsop, March 3, 2025

Markets

Daily Market Wire 17 March 2025

Damaging wind, dust storm, torments US. Canada reels at tariff impost by China. Rain relieves arable WA. Much of eastern Australia desiccates…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 17, 2025

Feedgrain Focus: Sorghum lifts on tariff fall-out

Sorghum values have jumped this week on expectations of increased demand from China in the wake of its tariff on US sorghum…Read More

Liz Wells, March 13, 2025

Australia’s Jan canola exports at 788,094t up 34pc from Dec

Australia exported 788,094t of canola in January, up 34pc from the 588,922t shipped in December, according to the latest ABS data. ..Read More

Liz Wells, March 13, 2025

Daily Market Wire 14 March 2025

Futures rally, $A eases. HRW books its second biggest sale week as recent cheap price boosts demand…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, March 14, 2025

Canadian Wolf shares lowdown on spraying at GRDC Updates

Canadian spray-application specialist Tom Wolf steps through what operators and manufacturers can do to get the most out of spray rigs, as heard at recent GRDC Updates. ..Read More

Liz Wells, March 11, 2025

John Deere talks up tractor, cart, drill combo for seeding

THE power of the John Deere 9 Series Tractor, when combined with the accuracy of the new C-Series Air Cart and P600 Precision Air Hoe Drill delivers a total seeding..Read More

Grain Central, March 3, 2025

HIVE removes bottlenecks, boosts harvest efficiency

A new 225t HIVE Motherbin has brought increased efficiencies to Brad and Kate Jones’ Bungulla Farming operation at Tammin in WA…Read More

Grain Central, December 10, 2024

CLAAS demo does its bit for harvest efficiency

As harvest rolls south through Australia’s grainbelt, a highly specialised group is adding to the number of European visitors here to work the season…Read More

Liz Wells, November 18, 2024

Property

Mormon Church buys three-farm North Star Aggregation

The Mormon Church has added a large-scale dryland operation in the renowned Golden Triangle region of northern NSW to its growing Australian agricultural portfolio…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 17, 2025

Nicoletti’s Connawarrie sells to WA locals

Five local farmers have paid a combined $35M for John Nicoletti’s cropping and sheep aggregation in WA’s Great Southern region…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 14, 2025

Downs, GV aggregations, Wimmera holding list

Part of a prized Darling Downs portfolio is for sale, Excel Farms has listed one of its Wimmera holdings, and the 1950ha Summit Aggregation is on the market in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 10, 2025

Diverse Riverina holdings hit the NSW market

Six properties in the Riverina district of southern NSW have come to market, and range from the expansive Noongaburra near Hay to smaller operations near Narrandera and Wagga Wagga…Read More

Linda Rowley, March 7, 2025

AgCarbon Central

CBH joins Blue Visby post trial, receives first new wagons

Following successful trials, CBH will be shipping some of its Kwinana exports with Blue Visby, and in WA rail news, CBH Group has received its first batch of new wagons. ..Read More

Grain Central, January 20, 2025

ARENA supports GrainCorp’s expanding crush ambitions

ARENA has pledged $6.1M for GrainCorp’s study to investigate the establishment of a new oilseed-crushing facility…Read More

Grain Central, January 13, 2025

Projects in pipeline for grainbelt-made green nitrogen

Ahead of green ammonia coming to market in Australia, the Clean Green Ag and FarmLink trial in southern NSW, and Nitronic’s innovation in WA, are looking to the next generation of fertiliser…Read More

Liz Wells, December 11, 2024

Value key to getting growers on board with low-carbon fuels

Potential for growers to supply feedstock to the domestic LCLF producers was explored at a Bioenergy Australia summit in Perth earlier this month…Read More

Emma Alsop, October 31, 2024

Beef Central

NTCA appoints Romy Carey as chief executive

The Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association has drawn from within to replace outgoing CEO Will Evans, announcing today that deputy CEO Romy Carey, a lifelong Territorian, will succeed him in the..Read More

Twba lunch with Bruce Vandersee: A front-row seat to 60 years of farming innovation

How a small family business transformed into an agricultural machinery powerhouse that helped to drive the growth of the farming sector across four States will take centre stage at a..Read More

Treasury: Climate reporting will cost cattle companies millions

Modelling from the Federal Treasury department has suggested new emissions reporting rules will cost between $1m and $1.3m initially and an ongoing cost of $500,000 to $700,000/year...Read More

Livestock transporters warned to stay vigilant after activists allegedly vandalise truck

Livestock transporters have been warned to stay vigilant of animal activists after a truck was allegedly vandalised in Southern New South Wales causing $10,000 to $15,000 worth of damage...Read More

Sheep Central

Wool industry bodies support further AWEX-AWTA merger talks

THE latest merger discussions between the Australian Wool Exchange and the testing company AWTA Ltd have stalled despite estimated efficiency gains of more than $1 million year...Read More

WoolProducers Australia looks for its next youth ambassadors

WOOLPRODUCERS Australia launched its 2025/26 Youth Ambassador program at the weekend, highlighting the importance of industry policy and advocacy...Read More

Recruitment: Women breaking the ‘glass ceiling’ in red meat sector

FOLLOWING on from the recent International Women’s Day, this week’s recruitment article shines a light on the integral role women are playing in the red meat processing sector...Read More

Forward wool trading battles tight supply and tariff war concerns

FORWARD wool markets this week were a little more active as buyers and sellers tried to wrangle with the competing influences of tight supply versus the impact of a potential..Read More