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Wheat pools close

18 Mar 10 | AWB has finalised its 2008-09 pool, paying out a final distribution of $63 million a month ahead of schedule. | Trials prove strengths of durum Visit Stock Journal

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AWB's $131m payback to farmers

12 Jan 10 | GRAIN trader AWB has said it will make a $131 million net payment to the farmers who participated in its wheat pools for 2008-09. | Viterra has more options than ABB | Information the key to grains ...

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Wheat harvest forecast 7pc higher: NAB

23 Oct 09 | RAINFALL throughout some areas in the Australian wheatbelt has lifted yield expectations, with wheat production now forecast to reach 23 million tonnes – up 7 per cent on last year’s crop. | Wheat market rebound lifts ... | High yields from new pulse ... Visit Stock Journal

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Upside to wheat prices: Rabobank

22 Oct 09 | WHILE current subdued prices are providing a significant challenge for the Australian wheat industry, the longer-term price outlook is more positive, an international specialist on the global grains market has told local growers. | GM canola crop spreads despite ... Visit Stock & Land

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Price slide takes shine off promising wheat harvest

16 Sep 09 | DESPITE this week's encouraging Australian wheat harvest forecasts, the downside is that global wheat prices have been pushed down in recent months by a big world wheat crop combined with sluggish demand. | Wheat crop forecast lifted by ... | Crops saved by September rain | SLIDESHOW: Restockers on top at dusty ...

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Crops saved by September rain

15 Sep 09 | TEN days ago, the grains crop in southern Queensland and northern NSW was close to succumbing to the unusually hot and dry spring weather, which had already gutted the crop in central Queensland. | Biodiesel demand lifts ... | Court approves Viterra takeover ... | SLIDESHOW: Photos from the Adelaide show ...

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Sharp fall in US wheat prices, then rally

14 Sep 09 | WHEAT futures prices in major US grain markets dropped sharply following the release of the US Department of Agriculture's crop report on Friday. | Norman Borlaug, father of ... | Grain, beef struggle as prices ... | VIDEO: Yea steers exceed 200c/kg

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Four cleared for wheat exports

11 Aug 09 | WHEAT Exports Australia (WEA) has started its process of renewing exporters accreditation under the Wheat Export Marketing Scheme, allowing a number of accredited companies to continue exporting Australia’s wheat in bulk. |

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Wheat stocks estimated at 7m tonnes

02 Aug 09 | STOCKS of wheat held by bulk grain handlers in Australia totalled 7 million tonnes at the end of June 2009, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). | ABB board backs Canadian takeover | Growers split over Viterra vote Visit Stock Journal

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GM wheat boost confirmed

23 Jul 09 | PROPONENTS of genetically modified wheat received a big boost last week with the news biotech behemoth Monsanto plans to get back into GM wheat. |

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Wheat growers eyeing both weather and prices

08 Jul 09 | PLUNGING wheat prices and forecasts of dry weather are fuelling growers’ concerns that the multibillion-dollar winter crop, which benefitted from good planting rains earlier this year, might ultimately disappoint. | No cause for alarm on wheat ... Visit Stock Journal

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Green light for Greentree wheat exports

07 Jul 09 | AUSTRALIA'S largest wheatgrower, Ron Greentree, has been given the go ahead to export wheat from his own northern NSW properties - a first under the new deregulated marketing arrangements. |

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US winter wheat progresses slowly

24 Apr 09 | Progress for the US winter wheat crop has been slow across the board, mainly as a result of winter freeze damage across the southern Plains this autumn. | New herbicide from Bayer ... | SA canola trials cut short by ... Visit Stock Journal

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Beans spread wheat risk at Coonamble

18 Apr 09 | A first-time crop of mung beans has rounded off a strategy to diversify into different crops to reduce the dependence on wheat. |

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AWB closes 2008-09 pools: $335/tonne in east

17 Apr 09 | AWB today announced the closure of all 2008-09 Western and Eastern Pools, effective from 5pm (AEST) today. | Bright future for Aust grains | Lock-in durum prices now Visit Stock Journal

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The case for investing in agricultural research and development

12 Mar 10 | NATIONAL Farmers' Federation chief executive officer Ben Fargher has challenged the government to expand its probe into rural R&D. Here is his address to the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology national conference.

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