Australian farmers are breathing a sigh of relief following the Federal Government’s decision to expand access to a key capital gains concession.
Melissa Pedelty and Katina Curtis
WA farmers say family farming could become a way of the past, giving way to corporate, institutional or foreign ownership, if there is not a marked change in the tax system.
Melissa Pedelty
Positive feedback is circulating for a program designed to minimise the negative effect the Federal Government’s live sheep export by sea ban has had on regional Western Australia.
Rising input costs combined with concerns for availability of key farm inputs have WA farmers more pessimistic than they have in nearly three years despite a solid start to the season.
Fisheries Minister Jackie Jarvis has accused Nationals MPs of standing along side those who made threats against her family’s business as a vote for an inquiry into the State’s demersal fishing passed.
Oliver Lane
The Western dairy industry was treated to insights into specialised genetic selection in order to grow a dairy producers’ herd and increased milk production.
Georgia Campion
Farmers are wrapping up their preparations ahead of the mandatory electronic identification requirements that will come into full force in WA in a matter of weeks.
The WA Shearing Industry Association will host its annual general meeting this Saturday, which is open to all interested with updates to include many topics relevant to its theme ‘The Outlook for Wool’.
Bob Garnant
Supply, not price, continues to shape sheep and lamb markets
DEAN HUBBARD
Mobile connectivity and reliability problems continue to climb with many regional West Australians reporting failed emergency calls and frequent service dropouts.
WA wool industry experts are confident the market will break records in the coming months after another significant price rise this week.
WA’s Royal Agricultural Society has appointed Donnybrook farmer Anne Stroud as its first female president in the association’s nearly 200-year history.
Crops across most of the State’s grain-growing areas have been freshened up by recent rainfall, with much of WA’s crop sprouting out of paddocks.
Feedback from the China Industry Discovery Tour organised by the West Australian Wool Collective has been overwhelmingly positive and many have reported a renewed sense of excitement and faith in the industry.
Despite few details of the interim agreement being disclosed, the S&P-ASX200 jumped 1.25 per cent to 8914 points as oil retreated, gold gained and seven of the market’s 11 sectors finished in the green.
Sean Smith
The Horticulture Code reform must improve clarity, confidence and compliance while keeping workable trading options available, says a national body.
Rebecca Nadge
The Tambellup community has netted $20,000 following a two-month trial, which also demonstrated the potential profits from finishing or backgrounding lambs on stubble.
A DNA tool is allowing a Bindoon cattle producer to identify threatened wildlife and feral species on farm and then take targeted action
Danielle Marsland
South West grown Bravo apples have hit Chinese shores for the first time almost a year after a milestone trade market access agreement was signed.
A petition to halt the culling of feral deer has landed in the State Government’s lap over the drop and rot policy and excessive hourly costs billed to taxpayers.
Two New Zealand-born immigrants with inspiration to produce beef cattle in WA have made their presence known by winning this year’s 12th annual Gate 2 Plate Challenge, WA’s largest feedlot competition.
WA pastoralists, farmers, and researchers are among hundreds of names listed in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours for their contributions to the agriculture sector and community.
Georgia Campion, Craig Duncan, Melissa Sheil and Imogen Wilson
New Holland has made its renowned spot spraying technology available on Miller Nitro self-propelled sprayers, new and old.
Esperance farmers are becoming “increasingly frustrated” at continued delays to the completion of the region’s extension of the State Barrier Fence, Member for Roe Peter Rundle says.
Tegan Guthrie
