30/01/2002 | WA'S Prime Merino Lamb Alliance has scheduled accreditation days for interested producers at Wickepin on Wednesday, February 20, and at Esperance on Thursday, February 21. Alliance chairman Grantly Mullan said the accreditation would assist Merino
30/01/2002 | SHADOW environment minister Bernie Masters is requesting the State Government reveal the scientific basis for its claim that 80 per cent of the Swan Coastal Plain Wetlands was no longer in existence. Mr Masters disputes the 80pc figure, which he s
30/01/2002 | AUSTRALIAN trade negotiators will attempt to progress a free trade agreement with the US, and at the same time vent frustration with the protectionist US Farm Bill when Federal Trade Minister Mark Vaile flies to the US for important trade talks.
30/01/2002 | THE PGA has recently reiterated its opposition to the proposed $22.1 million national Ovine Johne's Disease assistance plan being pushed by WoolProducers and Sheepmeat Council of Australia. In a letter addressed to Agriculture Minister Warren
30/01/2002 | THE Pastoralists and Graziers Association has called for WA's canola industry to be deregulated after canola cheques were slashed $20-$30/t when AgraCorp shut off its cash price early into harvest this year. This forced WA canola growers to delive
30/01/2002 | WA's reputation for having high calibre researchers in the pig industry was reaffirmed recently when Agriculture Department research officer Darryl D'Souza was presented with the Ted Batterham Memorial Award. The highly prestigious award, pres
30/01/2002 | DWINDLING pig numbers have sealed the fate of the Merredin pig facility, which will be closed after the February 28 sale. Elders pig section manager John Watkins said the lack of supply was caused by more pigs going directly to the trade while som
30/01/2002 | GRAINGROWER and public comments on changes to the Grain Marketing Act 1979 and Bulk Handling Act will be called for from mid-February when a discussion paper is released for public comment. Prepared by Agriculture Department executive director of
30/01/2002 | Many people consider Ralph Maurice Burnett a hero. And this Australia Day it became official when his name was added to the prestigious Order of Australia Honours List. Officially recognised for his service to agriculture through independe
30/01/2002 | THE future of Labor's one-vote one-value electoral reform proposal remains in limbo as Supreme Court officials scratch their heads over how to conduct a fair hearing. After objections were raised that Labor had illegally pushed reforms through
30/01/2002 | AUSTRALIA's monopoly of the live sheep market to Saudi Arabia has been broken, following agreement between trade officials from Saudi Arabian and Sudan which allow Sudan to recommence live sheep and meat exports to Saudi Arabia. According to Meat
30/01/2002 | Federal President George W. Bush's opposition to the protections US Farm Bill appears to be waning, with the US head of state declaring his support for the bill to farmers last week. At times issuing conflicting messages on world trade, Presid
30/01/2002 | WORLD wheat prices face a dramatic downward spiral if the US Government persists with its subsidy program for its grain growers. That's the opinion of AWB Ltd chairman Trevor Flugge who last week set off on a lobbying mission to Washington to tell
30/01/2002 | WA WOOL prices rose again last week to virtually catch up on gains made in eastern Australia the previous week when WA's sale was cancelled due to lack of wool. Last week the Western Market Indicator rose by 67 cents a kilogram to 851c/kg, finishi
30/01/2002 | The WAFarmers Federation has continued to push ahead with plans to introduce a levy system to rescue it from its current funding crisis. But compulsory levies have been ruled out as an option. WAFarmers president Colin Nicholl said it was u
23/01/2002 | HIGH moisture wheat and barley could be less of a problem for southern WA graingrowers by next harvest as Cooperative Bulk Handling Ltd plans to expand aerated storage facilities. It forms part of the provisional $75 million capital program an
23/01/2002 | TO SEll or not to sell? That is the question on many woolgrowers' minds as the post wool stockpile era continues to impact, with mid and broad micron wool prices breaking through old reserve price scheme barriers. Some growers have made the dec
23/01/2002 | THE Western Australian Farmers Federation is part of the Country Alliance that has been established to co-ordinate opposition to the State Government's discriminatory rural election reform legislation when it is examined by the Supreme Court. WAFa
23/01/2002 | THE atmosphere at Curly and Pat Layman's farm was more like that of an Ag show than a clearing sale on Saturday. More than 540 people registered as potential buyers and many more came to see the hundreds of items ‹ some dating back to the firs
23/01/2002 | A FORMER milk quota lessor who appeared in the Supreme Court late last year to argue his case for damages against WAFarmers for causing deregulation of the WA dairy industry has made the claim again. This time Pino Gangemi and wife Francesca h
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