While France’s canola crop is has had a troubled start, its cereals are enjoying a kind season, and are likely to be selling into a buoyant global market as Brazil’s safrinha crop struggles and China’s appetite shows no sign of waning…Read More
Grain Brokers Australia, May 11, 2021
The allowable limit of zinc phosphide for baited grain is being doubled to help grain growers and handlers get on top of the mouse plague now impacting parts of Australia…Read More
Grain Central, May 11, 2021
Winter-crop area in Western Australia has been forecast at a record 8.6 million hectares, including WA’s biggest ever planting of canola, in the Grain Industry of WA May crop report…Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021
The latest ABS data shows more than two-thirds of March barley exports went to Saudi Arabia as part of Australia’s massive feed shipment program…Read More
Liz Wells, May 10, 2021
An expected firming in grain prices by the end of the year will do nothing to help returns in the feedlot industry, according to NAB economist Phin Ziebell. ..Read More
Fiona Myers, May 10, 2021
Grain and oilseed markets closed sharply lower in overnight trading as the market repositions ahead of USDA’s WASDE report due out tomorrow…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, May 11, 2021
Viterra in Australia has reported its biggest ever rail out-turn month with 215,000t shifted in March as the company rebrands globally from Glencore Agriculture…Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021Winter-crop area in Western Australia has been forecast at a record 8.6 million hectares, including WA’s biggest ever planting of canola, in the Grain Industry of WA May crop report…Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021Cotton Australia has nudged up its estimate for this season’s cotton production to “2.7 million bales and rising” as pickers move through crops from Central Queensland to southern NSW…Read More
Neil Lyon, May 5, 2021Viterra in Australia has reported its biggest ever rail out-turn month with 215,000t shifted in March as the company rebrands globally from Glencore Agriculture…Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021The latest ABS data shows more than two-thirds of March barley exports went to Saudi Arabia as part of Australia’s massive feed shipment program…Read More
Liz Wells, May 10, 2021A 15,000ha spread under Ulupna Pastoral Company management is seeking a capital partner to further development as an intensive mixed-farming operation running north and south of the River Murray …Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021Despite bigger grain crops worldwide this year, and higher demand leaving closing stocks overall unchanged, corn stock would shrink to a nine year low…Read More
Grain Central, May 5, 2021Buyers in eastern Australia bid strongly, faced world markets which refuse to go down and southern fears of Mallee and Wimmera region dryness dusting up Australia’s otherwise optimistic start to the winter cropping season…Read More
Henry Wells, May 6, 2021The market for WA cropping and mixed-farming country has seen a run of sales and leasing ahead of the winter-cropping season as growers look to expand area and investors see the value in agricultural land in the west…Read More
Liz Wells, May 5, 2021Chickpeas’ rise to prominence as a mainstream crop throughout the northern farming zone has been due, in no small part, to the efforts and expertise of NSW DPI plant pathologist, Kevin Moore…Read More
Neil Lyon, May 7, 2021Global grain and oilseed markets posted further gains on Friday, with sliding yield prospects for Brazil’s safrinha corn crop the major driver. ..Read More
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The allowable limit of zinc phosphide for baited grain is being doubled to help grain growers and handlers get on top of the mouse plague now impacting parts of Australia…Read More
Grain Central, May 11, 2021
Viterra in Australia has reported its biggest ever rail out-turn month with 215,000t shifted in March as the company rebrands globally from Glencore Agriculture…Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021
The National Farmers Federation, the NT Farmers Association and the NT Cattlemen’s Association are pleased to host the Towards 2030 Forum in Darwin on the 20th of May 2021…Read More
James Nason, May 10, 2021
Keep up to date with Australian cropping industry developments with Grain Central’s monthly quiz…Read More
Grain Central, May 7, 2021
Rain was recorded around most of the coast and inland areas of Australia over the past week, except in the north-west and South Australia…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, May 5, 2021
A tool developed by the Northern Australia Climate Program to help primary producers forecast meaningful rain events is on track to be rolled out via BoM next year…Read More
Liz Wells, May 4, 2021
A surface trough along the north-east coast of Queensland produced heavy rainfall between Cairns and Ingham, and moderate falls across the southern Cape York Peninsula and northern interior of Qld, while a cold front across southern Australia generated light falls on parts of the southern coast of WA and SA…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, April 28, 2021
Troughs brought rain to Western Australia’s Pilbara and north-eastern New South Wales, heavy falls in Queensland’s North Tropical Coast, while cold fronts produced moderate rainfall in western Tasmania…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, April 21, 2021
Winter-crop area in Western Australia has been forecast at a record 8.6 million hectares, including WA’s biggest ever planting of canola, in the Grain Industry of WA May crop report…Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021
Chickpeas’ rise to prominence as a mainstream crop throughout the northern farming zone has been due, in no small part, to the efforts and expertise of NSW DPI plant pathologist, Kevin Moore…Read More
Neil Lyon, May 7, 2021
If Australian cotton was to be spun into a single origin yarn, it could capture added value as an environmental and socially responsibly produced fabric, according to Nuffield Scholar, Tamara Uebergang,..Read More
Grain Central, May 6, 2021
Cotton Australia has nudged up its estimate for this season’s cotton production to “2.7 million bales and rising” as pickers move through crops from Central Queensland to southern NSW…Read More
Neil Lyon, May 5, 2021
While France’s canola crop is has had a troubled start, its cereals are enjoying a kind season, and are likely to be selling into a buoyant global market as Brazil’s safrinha crop struggles and China’s appetite shows no sign of waning…Read More
Grain Brokers Australia, May 11, 2021
The latest ABS data shows more than two-thirds of March barley exports went to Saudi Arabia as part of Australia’s massive feed shipment program…Read More
Liz Wells, May 10, 2021
An expected firming in grain prices by the end of the year will do nothing to help returns in the feedlot industry, according to NAB economist Phin Ziebell. ..Read More
Fiona Myers, May 10, 2021
Grain and oilseed markets closed sharply lower in overnight trading as the market repositions ahead of USDA’s WASDE report due out tomorrow…Read More
Lachstock Consulting, May 11, 2021
The ACCC has found that competition in after-sales farm machinery markets would be improved if independent repairers had access to software, tools and parts on fair and reasonable commercial terms…Read More
Grain Central, May 4, 2021
March has delivered another stellar month for sales of agricultural tractors with a 64 per cent rise on the same month last year…Read More
Grain Central, April 19, 2021
Australia’s largest Case IH dealer, O’Connors, has announced its expansion into central and western Victoria with the purchase of Agrimac locations in Ballarat and St Arnaud…Read More
Grain Central, April 13, 2021
The Australian agriculture sector is capitalising on improved seasonal conditions and government incentives including the instant asset write-off scheme to invest in farm equipment…Read More
Grain Central, April 12, 2021
A 15,000ha spread under Ulupna Pastoral Company management is seeking a capital partner to further development as an intensive mixed-farming operation running north and south of the River Murray …Read More
Grain Central, May 10, 2021
The market for WA cropping and mixed-farming country has seen a run of sales and leasing ahead of the winter-cropping season as growers look to expand area and investors see the value in agricultural land in the west…Read More
Liz Wells, May 5, 2021
Australian farmland prices are expected to continue to rise in the current low interest rate-high commodity price environment, according to industry analysts…Read More
Terry Sim, May 6, 2021
Prices for cropping and mixed-farming country in the Victorian Mallee are hitting new highs as its reliability attracts a range of buyers including expanding locals, diversifying southerners and the Canadian-Australian joint venture Excel Farms…Read More
Liz Wells, April 23, 2021
Momentum continues to grow in certified grassfed branded beef programs in Queensland, with JBS the latest to join the list of suppliers. The nation’s largest processor provided first details of..Read More
The anti-meat movement is one of the key challenges facing the global meat industry, and the strategic solution lies in collaboration among red meat interests around the world to create..Read More
A test which would allow producers to know the fertility of young females within 20 minutes should be available within two years, a Beef 2021 genetics forum was told...Read More
Whether you were able to make it in person, or followed the coverage from afar, take our Beef 2021 quiz to see how much you absorbed from beef's biggest week...Read More
AUSTRALIA’S shearing industry will intensify its focus on the nation’s domestic labour force potential rather than looking to overseas workers to increase the number and retention of learner shearers...Read More
ONLINE demand for sheep and lambs was slightly softer last week, as some good rain through south-eastern Australia reportedly refreshed buyer confidence, but also renewed seller expectations...Read More
NEW South Wales landholders can now have their say on local strategic plans developed by Local Land Services, with all 11 regional plans on exhibition until early June...Read More
MEAT & Livestock Australia has released a ‘fast facts’ resource -- Red Meat, Green Facts – to help the red meat industry to promote the red meat industry’s credentials and..Read More