SA seeding advances despite lack of forecast rain

Planting of Australia’s winter crop is well under way in all states including SA, despite the autumn break yet to appear on the forecast…Read More

Liz Wells, May 6, 2025

SA’s HFE sells, Grenfell, Esperance aggregations list

The Russell family of tea fame has listed its aggregation west of Esperance, and the 1893ha has also hit the market, while a holding on SA’s Eyre Peninsula has sold to separate buyers…Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, May 6, 2025

Basins to feel pinch of less snow in Hindu Kush-Himalaya

An ICIMOD report points to reduced water for 12 Asian river systems fed by the spring thaw on the Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountains, where snow is at its lowest level in more than 20 years…Read More

Peter McMeekin, Grain Brokers Australia, May 6, 2025

Geringhoff front finds harvest fit with Tighe Ag

A Geringhoff front helped Tighe Ag maximise harvest efficiencies for direct-headed canola and lodged barley in a big and wet 2024-25 harvest…Read More

Grain Central, May 6, 2025

Weekly rainfall update 6 May 2025 + outlook

Only very light rain is forecast for the coming week in grain-growing areas to follow the pattern set in the week to today, when only WA’s far south-west and parts of CQ had substantial rain…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, May 6, 2025

Daily Market Wire 6 May 2025

Monday’s offshore market hands back Friday’s gains. Strong eastern Australian demand sustains Victorian barley price. ..Read More

Lachstock Consulting, May 6, 2025

Qube buys AGT Foods’ Narrabri facility

Qube has further expanded its presence in the NSW grain sector with the acquisition of AGT Foods Australia’s Narrabri agri storage and handling facility…Read More

Grain Central, April 30, 2025

Feedgrain Focus: Northern selling lifts as southern dry drags on

Selling has gained momentum in the north on the back of promising new crop prospects, while concerns are building in south after rainfall fails to deliver on expectations…Read More

Emma Alsop, May 1, 2025

Why isn’t Australia talking more about sorghum’s baijiu distilling opportunities in China?

Elders economist Richard Koch looks at the booming opportunity for Australia sorghum to service the Chinese thirst for baijiu, a popular alcoholic spirit. Baijiu is the world’s biggest-selling liquor, with..Read More

Grain Central, May 1, 2025

Tipperary Group carves off NT’s Douglas West

Douglas West, part of the Tipperary Group’s Northern Territory holdings, has returned to the market after reportedly selling to CropScale 12 months ago…Read More

Linda Rowley, May 1, 2025

Former Toobeah cotton grower to be sentenced on fraud charges

Former Toobeah cotton grower John Douglas Norman will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty six counts of fraud…Read More

Emma Alsop, May 1, 2025

New analysis uncovers genetic key to larger peanut yields

Australian and Chinese researchers have identified crucial structural variations that determine seed size and weight in peanuts…Read More

Grain Central, May 1, 2025

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