30/10/2007 | FARM lobby groups have secured money to fight a Federal Court ruling that favoured a man who broke into a Victorian feedlot and fed ham to sheep destined for the live export trade. The Victorian Farmers Federa-tion (VFF) said it had secured sig-ni
30/10/2007 | THE nation’s top consumer watchdog is keeping a close eye on the new craze of marketing goods and services to the public as clean, green and environmentally friendly. The latest green marketing techniques have even been embraced by the agriculture
30/10/2007 | THE live export industry is a shining light in the currently depressed livestock market. Export companies are at capacity while they get ready to take delivery of several hundred thousand long tail lambs which will leave WA in the middle of this m
30/10/2007 | WESTERN Australian grain growers are set to benefit from a new direction in wheat breeding after the official launch of the new company InterGrain last week. Agriculture Minister Kim Chance and Grains Research and Development Corporation chairman
30/10/2007 | EAST Maya grain grower Peter Waterhouse is one of many northern growers frustrated about the restricted services regime under which he and others in his area are being forced to deliver their grain to CBH this season. Mr Waterhouse said drought st
30/10/2007 | EAST PINGELLY farmer and former WAFarmers grains council president Ray Marshall has celebrated a unique anniversary in typical determined style. “It is one year since the WAFarmers board issued me with the ultimatum — resign or else,” Mr Marshall
30/10/2007 | THE Productivity Commission will undertake a safeguards inquiry into the impact of pig-meat imports on the Australian pork industry. The Australian Pork-suppor-ted announcement was made by the Federal Government last month. Australian Pork chie
30/10/2007 | FRUSTRATED farmers won’t know the extent of crop damage caused by heavy rain and hail last weekend until harvesting resumes today. While there are concerns that some barley crops may be reduced in quality from malt to feed grade, it appears most f
30/10/2007 | UNITED Farmers Co-operative (UFC) has started assessing its opportunities to restructure and strengthen its business to continue growing its fertiliser and chemical businesses. UFC issued a media release on Tuesday saying the move was made after f
30/10/2007 | A FARM Weekly straw poll has revealed WA farmers’ strong desire to control their own destiny with a semi-deregulated export wheat market. A majority 45 farmers who were contacted said they did not want to be associated with the Wheat Export Market
23/10/2007 | DAYLIGHT saving’s second-round trial will begin at 2am this Sunday and debate has once again heated up on whether WA really wants the clock to go forward one hour. The National Party is again leading the anti-daylight saving charge that seems to h
23/10/2007 | THE pro-genetically modified organism (GMO) lobby has found an unlikely opponent in its bid to have the state’s moratoria on genetically modified (GM) food crops lifted. A delegation of Japanese consumers visited Australia as part of a publicity
23/10/2007 | MEAT and livestock groups in WA are confident the much-anticipated Muchea multi-species saleyard complex is on track to start selling livestock by next year. Up-to-date plans of the Muchea multi-species saleyard site have been released — exclusi
23/10/2007 | A NEW sheep and cattle abattoir is one step closer to being constructed at Linley Valley following a decision by the Shire of Northam to reject an application for the rezoning of a parcel of land next door to the site. The shire reviewed the appli
23/10/2007 | NEW legislation passed by the State Government this week ena-bles WA farmers to cross over public roads from paddock to paddock without having to stop and disassemble machinery or harvesting equipment. After extensive consultation with key stakeho
23/10/2007 | SAFETY issues involving long road trains crossing railway lines is likely to result in farmers paying the cost of State Government buck-passing. The issue revolves around a farmer meeting held at Grass Patch last week protesting against a ban by M
23/10/2007 | O’CONNOR MHR Wilson Tuckey has held the seat of O’Connor for the Liberal Party since 1980 — seven years before his ALP rival Dominic Rose, 20, was born. But not afraid of one of the biggest challenges in Australian politics, Mr Rose gamely took pu
23/10/2007 | THERE have been no responses to CBH’s month-long employment scheme to get drought-struck farmers to staff its Metro Grain Centre in Perth’s south west suburbs. The flexible strategy had been designed to help CBH and those farmers hit hard by compo
17/10/2007 | FARMERS can help research into memory-destroying Alzheimer’s disease, which could have a devastating impact on shires in the future, by donating grain this harvest. Supporting the McCusker Foundation’s research could prevent the disease, West Coas
17/10/2007 | THE aftershocks of one of the biggest earthquakes to hit the Great Southern in 40 years were still being felt in the area this week. The 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook houses in the Broomehill area and there were reports of shock waves being felt
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