25/01/2005 | US agricultural product giant Monsanto has been fined $1.5 million for attempting to bribe a senior Indonesian Ministry of Environment official to facilitate the introduction of genetically modified cotton crops in Indonesia. The case related
25/01/2005 | AUSTRALIAN grain growers could soon be paying another $12m in levies for a multi-layered national industry body to implement the Single Vision strategy. Details leaked to Farm Weekly indicate the new company would be called Single Visions Grai
25/01/2005 | ALBANY farmer Brian Burns, who has been prevented from touching 1400ha of land on two holdings, has made a desperate plea to Environment Minster Judy Edwards to get his life back on track. Soil Conservation Notices (SCN) were served on Mr Burn
25/01/2005 | PROPONENTS of deep drainage as a salinity solution are leading a charge to take its management out of the hands of bureaucrats in the lead-up to the state election. They claim viable salinity solutions have been hamstrung by the complicated st
25/01/2005 | THERE has been a huge increase in wheat imports into China in the past year, with some reports indicating it took more than seven million tonnes in 2004. This was in direct contrast to the past five to six years when annual wheat imports into Chin
25/01/2005 | PASTORALISTS and Graziers Association (PGA) president Barry Court will come full circle when he retires from his current post to become state chairman of Elders WA. Mr Court began his career with Elders in 1956 in administration before movi
25/01/2005 | FARMERS can donate grain, wool bales or stock to a new rural appeal for the tsunami-devastated area of Aceh, Indonesia. Farmers Philip Bornholt and Jodie Murphy from Goondiwindi on the NSW-Queensland border started the appeal with assistance from
25/01/2005 | THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) has criticised country-to-country free trade deals in its latest report, saying governments risk damaging the main multilateral system if they continue signing their own deals. The report warned free trade ag
25/01/2005 | PROPOSALS for changes to the national representation of Australia's grain producers will be discussed at a full meeting of the Grains Council of Australia this week. GCA President Keith Perrett said the proposals, relating to the governance and ad
25/01/2005 | The State Government today released the findings of an independent review of the Grains Marketing Act 2002 and the Grains Licensing Authority (GLA). The report supports the continuance of the GLA and suggests the grains industry has benefited from
25/01/2005 | FOR outgoing Elders state chairman Frank Bongers, working with the company provided the opportunity to see WA, Australia and eventually the world. Mr Bongers has spent most of his life in the red of Elders, after beginning in the Perth wool de
25/01/2005 | FORMER WAFarmers president Colin Nicholl has thrown his hat into the political arena and will contest a parliamentary seat at the coming state election. Mr Nicholl was approached by sitting WA New Country Party (NCP) leader Frank Hough some ti
25/01/2005 | THE Productivity Commission (PC) is holding public hearings on its draft report on the Australian pigmeat industry. The draft report released in December provided the Commission's preliminary findings on the industry and its outlook. The Comm
25/01/2005 | FARM Weekly staff were on the winners¹ list at the Rural Press 2005 Agriculutral Publishing Editorial Awards in Sydney last week. Journalist Lara Jensen received the award for best on-farm story for her article on maximising pastoral feed, which a
25/01/2005 | BROOKS Grain has celebrated another successful year in WA and pledged to continue lobbying for increased Grain Licencing Authority (GLA) bulk export licences. The NSW-based grain trader received licences for 110,000t of feed barley for Saudi Arabi
25/01/2005 | CANADA'S feed control measures are under inspection after a third case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed in a six-year-old beef cow, adding further pressure to the resumption of its beef and cattle trade with the US. Cana
25/01/2005 | THE benefits of the controversial Grain Licensing Authority (GLA) to WA outweigh the costs, according to an independent review into the authority by accountants RSM Bird Cameron. The review, commissioned by Agriculture Minister Kim Chance last
25/01/2005 | A GROUP of Ukrainian farmers has gained an insight into WA local farming systems and provided evidence of the expanded role former soviet countries will play in world agriculture. The group from the Agro-Soyuz company investigated no-till cro
25/01/2005 | THE activities of monopoly grain trader AWB Ltd were criticised at a meeting of leading global agribusiness minds in the US, according to Pastoralists and Graziers Association grains chairman Leon Bradley. Mr Bradley attended the recent annual
25/01/2005 | THE Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) is keeping a careful watch over the sale of the Midland saleyards to ensure profits remain invested in the Muchea development. PGA policy director Hugh Harding said the PGA would be meeting with
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