29 Jan 03 | WOOL research and development in Australia has received a $21 million boost with the recent announcement of investment in 11 new projects by Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI). The Board of AWI approved the projects, covering all areas of th
29 Jan 03 | FUTURIS Corporation ‹ the parent company of Elders ‹ last Friday accepted an offer from Orica for its outstanding Incitec shares, allowing Orica to merge Incitec's fertiliser business with Pivot. Supporting the planned merger of Incitec's fer
29 Jan 03 | THE future of WA's grains industry has come to a head with the Australian Wheat Board and CBH promoting different pathways on how to bed down single desk marketing. The AWB Ltd pathway embraces a 50-50 partnership with CBH but CBH has started
29 Jan 03 | NSW grain handler GrainCorp last week disposed of its entire holding of 8.7 million shares in AWB Ltd. The sale involved a number of buyers and took place off market. When GrainCorp first acquired the AWB shares a few years ago, it employed an
29 Jan 03 | SWEEPING changes across the board are in full swing at Wesfarmers Landmark. Less than one year after taking on the job, managing director Mark Allison said that Wesfarmers Landmark was well in the process of rationalisation and consequent grow
29 Jan 03 | WESTERN Power has disputed claims it was being arrogant when dealing with shires and landowners over the Waterloo to Busselton transmission line. Work on the lines was well underway but compensation for affected landowners was yet to be offere
29 Jan 03 | THE Fremantle Port Authority (FPA) had no plans to relocate livestock exports from its inner harbour, according to acting chief executive officer Steve Wade. He said the live export trade was an important part of the port's business mix, which
29 Jan 03 | KEEN cattle graziers will again have a fantastic opportunity to select from an offering of 850 top quality heifer calves and steer calves at the annual Wesfarmers Landmark Narngulu weaner and cattle store sale on Thursday, February 6. Wesfarme
29 Jan 03 | THE Australian wool industry could soon adopt a voluntary national vendor declaration system as an interim measure to address the expensive problem of dark and medullated fibre contamination. While far from perfect due to its reliance on hone
29 Jan 03 | THE fledgling Wheat Growers Association (WGA), claiming to represent nearly 1000 A class AWB shareholders, scored a victory last week in talks with AWB Ltd executives. Set up by Lake Camm farmer Bob Iffla in December, four association members
22 Jan 03 | MEMBERS of the Wheat Growers Association were due to meet with senior management for AWB Limited in Melbourne this week to discuss the new organisation's proposed changes the wheat marketer's constitution. WGA president Bob Iffla, who headed t
22 Jan 03 | THE debate over the Midland saleyards relocation reached new heights in recent months, with most of the focus being on where new yards would be located. While Moora and Northam Shires have lobbied hard for the saleyards, Agriculture Minister K
22 Jan 03 | WA milk producers will see the dawning of a new era with the return of Challenge Dairy's CEO Don Geare from Beijing last week. Mr Geare went to Beijing to meet with the heads of Beijing Sanyuan Foods and to finalise the new joint venture betwe
22 Jan 03 | FEED grain prices in WA had eased slightly in the wake of imported grain arriving to eastern Australia. A shipment of genetically modified US corn had already arrived in eastern Australia while 150,000-200,000 tonnes of UK wheat was due to hav
22 Jan 03 | A CLEARING sale west of Kojonup has been blamed for 15 properties being placed under quarantine for footrot, prompting calls for stock agents and farmers to increase their vigilance. About 4500 sheep were advertised for the Muradup clearing sa
22 Jan 03 | IT was a case of Paint It Black at Waroona last Thursday ‹ beautifully black ‹ to paraphrase The Stones. It was a glorious sight ‹ glossy, raven-black Angus cattle penned wall-to-wall for one of the breed's major events, Elders' annual Black M
22 Jan 03 | THE Japanese Government's plan to increase import tariffs on beef by up to 50 per cent has been met with cries of protest from Australia. Under a "safeguard" deal negotiated at the Uruguay round of World Trade Organisation talks, the Japanese coul
22 Jan 03 | WA dairy farmers may struggle to honour their milk contracts if the drought doesn't break soon, according to WAFarmers President Colin Nicholl. "Due to the unprecedented demand for hay throughout the state there is a very real possibility that
22 Jan 03 | MORAWA farmer Rod Madden has been chairman of the multi-million dollar business, United Farmers Co-operative for 10 years, but he gives the impression that he has not shifted far from his beginnings as a radical farm activist. Mr Madden's driv
22 Jan 03 | THE WA Farmers Federation will welcome the announcement of the relocation of the Midland saleyards to Muchea if the Agriculture Minister's "hot tip" gets home. WAFarmers Meat Section president Mike Norton wants to remind the Moora and Northam Shir
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