Recent rains and drought-induced demand for livestock feed have triggered a surge in oat plantings across the eastern seaboard in the past week…Read More
Neil Lyon, March 21, 2019
Australian grain organisations are advising growers of the increased risk attached to growing barley in the upcoming winter-cropping season in light of China’s anti-dumping investigation initiated in November…Read More
Henry Wells, March 21, 2019
Western Australian research has confirmed barley is better than wheat when getting the best from early sown crops in frost-prone landscapes…Read More
Grain Central, March 19, 2019
Regional communities have welcomed the Federal Government’s move to bolster the Murray Darling Basin Authority’s (MDBA) presence in regional centres to 104 positions – or around one-third of its total staff…Read More
Grain Central, March 19, 2019
Major Australian flour miller, ingredients supplier and baker Allied Pinnacle has been bought by Japan’s Nisshin Seifun Group Inc to expand its comparable business…Read More
Grain Central, March 6, 2019
GrainCorp has sold its Australian Bulk Liquid Terminals (ABLT) business to ANZ Terminals for around $350 million, but plans to continue using the assets under a long-term storage agreeement with the new owners…Read More
Grain Central, March 4, 2019
Earnings from increased poultry volumes have helped offset high feed costs in the half-year ending 29 December 2018 for Ingham’s Group Limited, Australia and New Zealand’s largest integrated poultry producer…Read More
Grain Central, March 1, 2019
CBH Group is planning to spend more than $150 million to add in excess of 800,000 tonnes of new storage and associated inloading and outloading equipment to the Western Australian bulk-handling system, with work due to start in coming months…Read More
Grain Central, February 26, 2019
Ridley’s strategy to support and retain dairy customers in the main milk-producing regions bode well for its earnings results in the half year to 31 December 2018. The company also reported major construction contract now in place for its new mill at Wellsford…Read More
Liz Wells, February 22, 2019
Australia’s largest integrated poultry producer, Ingham’s, has opened a greenfield feedmill at Murray Bridge to supply its poultry production in South Australia, and bring in-house a feed supply arrangement previously in place with Ridley Corporation…Read More
Grain Central, February 21, 2019
The ramifications of the recent Banking Royal Commission (BRC) have profound significance for everyone involved in agriculture, according to Ag Institute Australia (AIA) chair Turlough Guerin…Read More
Grain Central, February 21, 2019
Shareholders at today’s GrainCorp annual general meeting heard the company is ready to set up facilities in India, that several companies were interested in buying parts of the GrainCorp portfoilio, and that LTAP was still interested in buying the lot…Read More
Grain Central, February 20, 2019