23/02/2006 | CO-OPERATIVE Bulk Handling (CBH) management has told Farm Weekly that its corporate governance structures are comprehensive enough to withstand corruption. CBH chief executive officer Imre Mencshelyi said he could categorically say CBH had not
23/02/2006 | AGGRIEVED AWB shareholders are determined to pursue class action for loss of value of their shares, which have slumped from $6.40 on January 12 before the Cole inquiry to around $4. They claim they have been lied to about the value of their shares
23/02/2006 | THE Federal Government's Royal Commission into the AWB Iraq deals scandal began in Sydney this week. Former NSW judge and building industry Royal Commissioner Terence Cole will decide whether AWB's actions under the UN sponsored oil-for-food p
23/02/2006 | THE Cole inquiry's damaging revelations have placed AWB's unusual share arrangement under scrutiny, with a corporate governance expert saying the system was a disaster waiting to happen. Corporate Governance International (CGI) director Sandy
23/02/2006 | CO-OPERATIVE Bulk Handling (CBH) receival points have sustained minimal damage despite heavy rains and flooding in most of the Wheatbelt. CBH operations manager Colin Tutt said thorough receival site inspections would take place once conditions al
23/02/2006 | STATE governments should immediately end their moratoria on GM crops and contribute to a national and unified landcare program, according to the Federal Government's Agriculture and Food Policy Reference Group. Recommendations in its Creating
23/02/2006 | WHILE Many farmers may believe that paying commissions to Middle Eastern countries is just the way business is done there, Narrikup sheep meat processor, Roger Fletcher, says that's not the case. With evidence of kickbacks and bribes paid to Sadd
23/02/2006 | THE chairman of the new AWB sub-committee charged with keeping the company's stakeholders informed during the period of the Cole Inquiry has assured growers that the organisation was not "in paralysis". While most AWB directors have refrained
23/02/2006 | AWB directors remain tight-lipped as the fallout from the Cole inquiry continues to damage AWB's already perilous reputation. WA-based AWB directors told Farm Weekly they were legally bound not to disclose knowledge or information about matter
23/02/2006 | FOR the 19th consecutive audit period, Farm Weekly has been confirmed as WA's biggest-selling rural newspaper. The latest audited circulation figures released last week by the independent Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) show Farm Weekly's avera
23/02/2006 | ANOTHER so-called expose on the live export trade will be aired on national television this Sunday. As reported in Farm Weekly last week, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) will use the cattle transaction levy to fund a community awareness ca
23/02/2006 | THE Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) has refused to participate in the State Government's GM ministerial reference group. Agriculture Minister Kim Chance said the group would provide expert advice to the government on logistical, ag
23/02/2006 | GROWERS with shrinking profit margins are questioning whether the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) levy delivers benefits, according to Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) Western Graingrowers Committee chairman Leon Bra
23/02/2006 | A MAN stranded on his car at a flooded Lake Grace road crossing was saved in an unorthodox rescue by Doug Clarke. Mr Clarke, a Lake Grace graingrower and WAFarmers grain section president, was having fun with his family on a jet ski on the flo
23/02/2006 | AWB has launched an innovative new durum contract as part of a plan to satisfy growing demand for WA durum wheat. AWB Middle East, Africa and Europe general manager Michael Long said the hectare-based, fixed-price contract being offered exclusivel
23/02/2006 | THE Grains Council of Australia (GCA) claims the sale of the 2006-07 wheat crop is unlikely to be affected by the AWB scandal, despite Iraq's decision to exclude Australia from its latest tender. GCA chairman Murray Jones said the quality and rep
23/02/2006 | BARLEY growers can expect better disease resistance and plumper grains from the new Vlamingh variety, according to the variety's principal breeder. Agriculture Department senior barley breeder Chengdao Li said the new Vlamingh barley outperfor
23/02/2006 | THE WA Nationals will cut ties with traditional Coalition partner the Liberal Party and contest the next election as an Independent party. Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls said the party's state executive had decided earlier this year to be
23/02/2006 | WAFARMERS has called for an end to the state GM crops moratorium in its 2006 GMO Policy. Decided at the WAFarmers General Section Council Meeting last week, the policy shows WAFarmers considers the moratorium a barrier to progress, markets and
23/02/2006 | LIVESTOCK exports to Mexico are set to increase with 20,000 first and second cross ewes to be shipped from Australia to the state of Hidalgo. And WA will have a big role to play in the sheeps' export, to be conducted by Elders. Elders Int
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