29/03/2006 | THE pro-cooperative lobby could be celebrating some success in the Co-operative Bulk Handling (CBH) election with long-serving director and pro-corporate director John Carstairs replaced by Rod Madden in the Geraldton zone. Mr Madden, who was
29/03/2006 | FARM lobby groups have condemned the latest State Government plans to spend money on non-essential urban projects at the expense of the rural sector. This includes half a million dollars earmarked for public art for the Perth-to-Mandurah rail
29/03/2006 | MORAWA grower and AWB director Chris Moffet said at a Morawa meeting last week that the AWB oil-for-food (OFF) scandal was a shameful period for the company, but he was confident the company could return to its early glory. His comments were i
29/03/2006 | AWB International (AWBI) - the grower's national wheat pool - will not foot the bill for the Cole inquiry, AWBI and AWB Ltd (AWBL) director Chris Moffet told a single desk rally in Morawa last week. During the meeting, Eneabba grower Kim Halbe
29/03/2006 | CBH Group is investigating the viability of a biofuels venture in WA. Group chief executive officer Imre Mencshelyi said the company had been considering a move into biofuels to grow the WA market for grain. Mr Mencshelyi said ethanol and b
29/03/2006 | AWB International (AWBI) chairman Ian Donges has refused to confirm that AWBI will not be forced to pay part of AWB's Cole inquiry costs. This is despite claims by AWB director Chris Moffet that the national pool will not foot the bill. Speakin
29/03/2006 | WAFARMERS is hoping the change of leadership within the WA Liberal Party will mean good news for country communities. WAFarmers president Trevor De Landgrafft said Opposition leader Paul Omodei would be aware of many of the issues facing isolated
29/03/2006 | AS tropical cyclone Glenda closed in on WA's North-West on Tuesday the Bureau of Meteorology Tropical Cyclone Centre issued a warning. As Farm Weekly went to press, communities in the central and western Pilbara were told to be aware that Gle
29/03/2006 | BINDOON Rusa deer farmer Dr Desmond Williams has been butting heads with the Agriculture Department's Agriculture Protection Board (APB) for more than two years and the fight is heating up. The APB has told Dr Williams his outlawed deer specie
29/03/2006 | GROWERS would lose out in many ways if AWB lost control of the single desk, according to AWB director Chris Moffet. In his presentation to the Morawa meeting last week Mr Moffet said growers would lose their receiver of wheat of last resort an
29/03/2006 | MORE than 200 growers turned up at the Morawa Town Hall last week to show their support for a single wheat export system. Their support was shown in a vote at the end of the meeting when convener and local grower Rod Madden asked for a show of
29/03/2006 | WHEN the Iraqi Government said it would not take any more Australian wheat from AWB until the Cole oil-for-food inquiry was over there were increased calls to dismantle the wheat export single desk. But how important is Iraq to the Australian
29/03/2006 | WORKSAFE has been forced to rethink its Q Fever strategy after losing its legal battle with Liveringa Pastoral Co. The safety organisation inspected the group's Boyup Brook farm in December 2004 and issued a work order demanding its staff be v
29/03/2006 | NEARLY 50 country towns would have no local doctor without financial assistance from their local governments. Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) president Bill Mitchell said more than 46 local authorities in rural and regi
29/03/2006 | SEWERAGE works promised to the Hyden community nearly six years ago are yet to be completed, despite public health concerns posed by inadequate existing waste systems. The previous Liberal State Government approved the Small Country Towns Sewe
29/03/2006 | THE Cole inquiry has revealed that government ministers were warned as early as 2003 that AWB was paying Saddam Hussein kickbacks through the oil-for-food (OFF) program. In June of that year, just after the invasion of Iraq, cables sent from the A
29/03/2006 | OVERSEAS-BASED animal rights lobby group Animals' Angels acknowledged the Australian livestock industry's efforts to improve animal welfare at a live export forum in Perth last week. The group's Dawn Lowe met with representatives from Meat an
29/03/2006 | A CHARGE of vexatious litigation against Victorian farmer Brian Shaw is the trigger to challenge the validity of the one-vote, one-value legislation passed by the WA State Government after the last election. Mr Shaw, who also is a WA landholde
29/03/2006 | KOJONUP farmer Trish Webb says politicians should pay more attention to rural residents' concerns considering most of the state's export dollars come from rural industries. Mrs Webb said rural livelihoods were dependant on people being able to sta
29/03/2006 | WA farmers are paying more than 200pc to operate their trucks than their commercial counterparts. WA Farmers Federation (WAFarmers) transport and economics executive officer Ross Hardwick said the National Transport Commission (NTC) average co
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