Prices for chickpeas and lentils have fallen in the past month based on a lull in demand as the mungbean harvest wraps up and faba beans find favour with local stockfeed millers…Read More
Liz Wells, June 21, 2021
The Australian barley industry has emerged with renewed vigour from the turmoil of the past year when China imposed an 80.5 per cent tariff on barley imports from Australia that effectively closed the trade…Read More
Neil Lyon, June 21, 2021
Ridley has agreed to sell the aquafeed plant it opened in Tasmania in 2019 to Skretting Australia so Ridley can concentrate its aquafeed production at its expanding Narangba plant near Brisbane…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
Widespread dust storms across WA’s northern agricultural region has provided a graphic reminder of the need to protect paddocks and people’s lives from the impact of wind erosion…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
A significant increase in resistance to one key insecticide used to control the crop pest insect, Helicoverpa, has been recorded in central western NSW and the Burdekin region of Queensland…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
US Friday weather markets lift on US corn, spring wheat, Canadian central Alberta canola regions influence. Ukraine barley harvest tentatively begins. WA receives weekend rain. US dollar strength favours Australian exporters…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, June 21, 2021
The dumping of piles of grain on the ground at roadside rest stops by truck drivers either cleaning out trailers or reducing weight is not only illegal, but is also a serious biosecurity risk…Read More
Jim Moran, Grains Farm Biosecurity Officer, June 21, 2021Canadian-based investor Hancock Natural Resources Group is listing Kalanga but retaining Mobandilla in a potential downsize of its irrigated Queensland holdings…Read More
Liz Wells, June 16, 2021The gross value of crop production is estimated to have reached a near-record $35.5 billion in 2020–21, boosted by Australia’s second-biggest winter crop on record and relatively high world grain and oilseed prices…Read More
Grain Central, June 16, 2021Downgraded sorghum is pushing its way into some northern feed rations as barley values firm, and trucks remain hard to get for domestic consumers amid rain which has made on-farm access difficult…Read More
Liz Wells and Henry Wells, June 17, 2021As a key supplier of beetroot and sweetcorn to Edgell, and an award-winning cotton business, the listing of Tim and Sally Watsons’ Sunland offers diverse dryland and irrigated cropping options…Read More
Grain Central, June 16, 2021WA company Wide Open Agriculture is looking at introducing domestic processing of oats grown in WA to help satisfy growing Australian and international demand for its OatUP oat milk…Read More
Grain Central, June 16, 2021The impact of dry weather on the US corn crop now in the ground looks like the driver for grain values in the near term as wheat production globally is underpinned by healthy outlooks in the EU and Russia…Read More
Grain Brokers Australia, June 15, 2021The Australian Government has secured a landmark market access outcome for Australian rice growers in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United Kingdom announced yesterday evening…Read More
Grain Central, June 16, 2021Grains and oilseeds futures mostly settled lower. Corn rose 1pc. There’s good rainfall news for the Mississippi Delta and the central Corn Belt. Black Sea and Australian values weakened…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, June 16, 2021Australia’s agricultural sector has been a shining light of solid performance throughout the Covid pandemic, setting records for production and exports and helping underpin the nation’s economic recovery…Read More
Neil Lyon, June 18, 2021Heavy corrections in US markets, corn, soybean, pigs and cattle left longs reeling as rain forecasts turned optimistic in the Corn Belt. Currencies slid against USD, cushioning locally-denominated commodity price falls…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, June 18, 2021Security of data is extremely important and is often forgotten about. I have become more and more diligent in recent years in ensuring that I have good quality anti-virus/firewall....
Andrew WhitelawGreat article, it would be interesting to understand what Sustainable Grain Australia have to say regarding their platform and the future of Sustainability in Agriculture.....
JayOne of the finest line ups in the country, sound advice for the novice AgTech explorer.....
Tim GentleMost encouraging to see the lift and the prospect of a second very good to excellent year emerging.....
Graeme Geoffrey Vellacott
Ridley has agreed to sell the aquafeed plant it opened in Tasmania in 2019 to Skretting Australia so Ridley can concentrate its aquafeed production at its expanding Narangba plant near Brisbane…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
Widespread dust storms across WA’s northern agricultural region has provided a graphic reminder of the need to protect paddocks and people’s lives from the impact of wind erosion…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
The dumping of piles of grain on the ground at roadside rest stops by truck drivers either cleaning out trailers or reducing weight is not only illegal, but is also a serious biosecurity risk…Read More
Jim Moran, Grains Farm Biosecurity Officer, June 21, 2021
Australia’s agricultural sector has been a shining light of solid performance throughout the Covid pandemic, setting records for production and exports and helping underpin the nation’s economic recovery…Read More
Neil Lyon, June 18, 2021
Moderate rainfall was recorded in much of Victoria, eastern and central NSW, south-east Queensland, and parts of Tasmania in the past week. Extremely heavy daily falls in excess of 150mm were recorded in the West Gippsland in Victoria…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, June 16, 2021
Cold fronts produced moderate rainfall in southern South Australia, south-west and central Victoria, and Tasmania, while a low pressure system and surface trough generated moderate falls in southern Queensland and New South Wales…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, June 9, 2021
Flash droughts are droughts that begin suddenly and then rapidly become more intense. Flash droughts in Australia occur in all seasons and have led to a surge of interest among researchers…Read More
Tess Parker, Monash University and Ailie Gallant, Monash University, June 4, 2021
Cold fronts produced moderate rainfall in south-east Australia, while moderate falls across the south-west coast of Western Australia due to a strong cold front…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, June 2, 2021
A significant increase in resistance to one key insecticide used to control the crop pest insect, Helicoverpa, has been recorded in central western NSW and the Burdekin region of Queensland…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
From 1980 to 2016, grain production in Brazil increased more than fourfold, due not only to cropland expansion but the widespread adoption of double-cropping…Read More
Grain Central, June 18, 2021
A cotton farm just outside Goondiwindi on the NSW-Queensland border is the site of a ground breaking trial to test whether shredded cotton products could offer benefits to cotton soil health, and a scalable solution to textile waste…Read More
Grain Central, June 17, 2021
Western Australian grain growers have been urged to start monitoring crops for the pest, Russian wheat aphid, which is already active this season…Read More
Grain Central, June 14, 2021
Prices for chickpeas and lentils have fallen in the past month based on a lull in demand as the mungbean harvest wraps up and faba beans find favour with local stockfeed millers…Read More
Liz Wells, June 21, 2021
US Friday weather markets lift on US corn, spring wheat, Canadian central Alberta canola regions influence. Ukraine barley harvest tentatively begins. WA receives weekend rain. US dollar strength favours Australian exporters…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, June 21, 2021
Downgraded sorghum is pushing its way into some northern feed rations as barley values firm, and trucks remain hard to get for domestic consumers amid rain which has made on-farm access difficult…Read More
Liz Wells and Henry Wells, June 17, 2021
Heavy corrections in US markets, corn, soybean, pigs and cattle left longs reeling as rain forecasts turned optimistic in the Corn Belt. Currencies slid against USD, cushioning locally-denominated commodity price falls…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, June 18, 2021
Case IH has launched the new Farmall M series tractors onto the Australian and New Zealand markets, debuting the new range in Australia at the FarmFest field days at Toowoomba…Read More
Neil Lyon, June 18, 2021
Tractor sales across Australia continued their strong run in May with an 18pc rise on the same month last year, which has put the supply chain under pressure…Read More
Neil Lyon, June 9, 2021
Farmers were among the thousands of Australians fleeced of millions of dollars by sophisticated scams last year, according to the ACCC’s latest report into scam activity…Read More
Neil Lyon, June 7, 2021
Farm machinery manufacturer, Claas, has acquired a minority shareholding in Dutch start-up, AgXeed, to co-operate on the development and commercialisation of autonomous farm machinery…Read More
Grain Central, May 28, 2021
Canadian-based investor Hancock Natural Resources Group is listing Kalanga but retaining Mobandilla in a potential downsize of its irrigated Queensland holdings…Read More
Liz Wells, June 16, 2021
As a key supplier of beetroot and sweetcorn to Edgell, and an award-winning cotton business, the listing of Tim and Sally Watsons’ Sunland offers diverse dryland and irrigated cropping options…Read More
Grain Central, June 16, 2021
Melbourne-based investment firm Prime Value has bought 11 farms from Van Dairy to add to its portfolio…Read More
Liz Wells, June 1, 2021
Large-scale irrigation and dryland country close to Griffith has returned to the market with the listing of Peter Bartter’s Ballandry Station…Read More
Grain Central, May 31, 2021
A spill in the Nationals partyroom this morning has returned Barnaby Joyce to the leadership of the Federal Nationals parliamentary party and to the office of deputy prime minister. ..Read More
Former deputy prime minister John Anderson's planned return to Federal Parliament ended on Friday last week when he lost a National senate preselection contest to former NSW Nationals director Ross..Read More
JBS, the world’s largest protein company and second-largest food producer, has finalised a deal to purchase Europe’s third-largest plant-based food manufacturer, Vivera...Read More
Australian agriculture needs to develop a standard framework that showcases the industry’s sustainability and decarbonisation credentials if it is to stay competitive in the global marketplace...Read More
AUSTRALIAN rural research and development corporations need to do better on collaborating on sheep projects, Meat & Livestock Australia managing director Jason Strong told the MerinoLink conference last week...Read More
PRIME lamb and maternal crossbred lamb prices improved in an overall reduced sheep and lamb offering on AuctionsPlus last week...Read More
AUSTRALIAN agriculture needs to develop a clear framework showcasing sustainability and decarbonisation credentials to investors and customers if it is to stay globally competitive...Read More
WANTED – sheep, cattle and goat producers who want to help direct the red meat and livestock research, development and adoption agenda in south-eastern Australia...Read More