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The crash happened on Great Northern Highway, south of Chittering Roadhouse, about 11.10am on Saturday.

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Driver dies after horror three-vehicle crash in Chittering

A driver has died in a multi-vehicle crash after a road train, tow truck and car collided in Chittering. 

Caleb Runciman

Gary and Narelle McGill with signs supporting Israel they affixed to the front gates of their Calingiri farm in the wheatbelt.

WA NewsPremium‘Never in a million years’: rise of anti-Semitism in regions

The scourge of anti-Semitism has spread as far as the remote corners of WA’s wheatbelt, with signs erected by a farmer in support of Israel defaced with obscenities and then stolen

Bethany Hiatt

Centre for Crop and Food Innovation director Dr Rajeev Varshney and GRDC senior manager for oilseeds and pulses Dr Francis Ogbonnaya.

ChickpeasChickpea pan-genome modified to improve yield and resilience

A pan-genome has been specifically tailored for Australia chickpea varieties to improve desirable agronomic traits including yield, flowering time, acid soil tolerance, and drought tolerance.

Georgia Campion

All Australian growers pay levies to GRDC of 0.9 per cent of the farm gate value of grain sold.

CASHED UPPremiumCalls for cashed-up GRDC to allocate money to biosecurity

Members of Australia’s grains industry are calling for the cashed-up Grains Research Development Corporation to dedicate a portion of its funds to biosecurity purposes.

Cally Dupe

Treasurer Rita Saffioti speaking at the State Budget lockup at Dumas House on Thursday afternoon.

WA BudgetPremiumWA Budget 2025: Regions to benefit from $141m in 2025-26

WA’s agriculture sector is set to benefit from the 2025-26 State Budget with a port expansion, new aerial strike teams, biosecurity, and boosting regional road safety on the governments agenda.

Georgia Campion

A tree-boring pest native to southeast Asia is destroying species in Perth's city parks. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

PoliticsPremiumAlarm as destructive tree pest threatens to go national

As one state gives up on eradicating a dangerous insect from local parks, experts warn hundreds of native species are at risk if it continues to spread.

Tom Wark

Shearer Carl Green at work with the Spencer Shearing Services team from Lake Grace.

Sheep numbersPremiumEastern Wheatbelt shearers do it tough

Eastern Wheatbelt shearers are among the hardest hit across the State as declining sheep numbers start to flow through but the full impact is still “too soon to tell”.

Melissa Pedelty

The Kununurra cotton gin to open in August

AgriculturePremium$60m cotton gin ”on time and on budget” to open in August

Kununurra’s cotton gin is on budget and on time to begin processing up to 100,000 tonnes of product produced in Ord Valley from August 11.

Sarah Crawford

The memorial at the Yarramony Road rail crossing, in memory of Hilary Smith, 19, Jess Broad, 18, and Christian Jensen, 20.

TRAGIC ANNIVERSARY‘They had no chance’: MP pays tribute to rail crash victims

Central Wheatbelt MLA Lachlan Hunter has paid tribute to the upcoming 25th anniversary of an “horrific” rail accident that claimed the lives of three young people living in his electorate. 

Cally Dupe

Forest Grove dairy farmer Ian Noakes. Taelor Pelusey

future in doubtPremiumWA dairy prices continue to come in under comparable regions

WA farmers continue to fear for the future of the industry as milk prices continue to track below other comparable dairying regions in Australia.

Melissa Pedelty

A man has been killed in a horror crash after his truck rolled off the road and burst into flames. 

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Driver dies after truck rolled off road, burst into flames

Footage from the scene shows the truck split in half and charred from a fire believed to have started inside his fuel tank.

Caitlin Vinci

Infected trees were removed from Hyde Park.

EnvironmentPremiumWA loses fight against invasive pest killing trees

The Cook Government has lost the fight against the polyphagous shot-hole borer, with it no longer ‘technically feasible’ to eradicate the invasive pest.

Claire Sadler

Scientists at one university have used AI to streamline testing to cut emissions from ammonia. (David Crosling/AAP PHOTOS)

renewable energyPremiumScientists turn to AI to crack the green ammonia riddle

Faced with testing 8000 substances to work out how to cut pollution from a key agricultural product, Aussie scientists turned to artificial intelligence.

Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

RRR Network members discuss regional education.

OPINIONPremiumOPINION: Our regional students need more support

Data continues to show that regional students are leaving university at significantly higher rates than their metro peers. 

Kendall Galbraith

In Australia, milk production is expected to shrink in the upcoming 2025-26 season to 8.2 billion litres — a 2-3 per cent decline.

dairy outlookPremiumGlobal dairy prices fail to raise producer confidence

Recent global dairy commodity price rises are making headlines but in Australia, seasonal conditions and higher input costs continue to put pressure on the country’s third-largest rural industry.

Melissa Pedelty

Westcoast Wools & Livestock wool manager Brad Faithfull.

positive sentimentPremiumWool broker Brad Faithfull says WA industry is strong

WA sheep prices are soaring and so are Brad Faithfull’s hopes for the wool industry after a challenging start to the year. 

Melissa Pedelty

Cattle in the Boyanup Saleyards.

FarmingPremiumShire call for support to upgrade controversial saleyard

The Shire of Capel has called on the State Government to support welfare upgrades to a South West saleyard after graphic footage of a not-fit-for-sale cow being euthanised emerges. 

Craig Duncan

Ben Creek at Boyup Brook breathed a sigh of relief at rains earlier this month.

Spirits soarPremiumSpirits soar but farmers ‘realistic’ anything could happen

Rainfall totals are soaring and so are farmers’ hopes of a better year than originally expected. 

Cally Dupe

Starlings have distinctive glossy black feathers with an iridescent green and purple sheen. From a distance they can look plain black. They may be seen perched on livestock in paddocks.

AI vs StarlingsWA Government to combat European starlings with AI

The WA Government is turning to artificial intelligence to scare off European starlings from fruit crops and livestock feed along the south coast, awarding an Adelaide company a nearly $400,000 tender.

Georgia Campion

Georgia Campion has joined the Countryman.

Meet the teamMeet Countryman’s new reporter Georgia Campion

My future career as a reporter at an agriculture newspaper would have left younger me, who had dreams of being a marine biologist, slightly puzzled. 

Georgia Campion

Agora Livestock sheep values update.

BEYOND THE SALEYARDSPremiumBeyond the Saleyards: WA sheep and lamb values lift

WA sheep and lamb prices continue to climb, with direct and saleyard values lifting again this week. 

Rob Kelly

Lamb prices have surged in the Eastern States.

Sheep pricesPremiumSheep and lamb prices continue to bolt

Sheep and lamb prices continue to bolt, with records tumbling at saleyards across the nation — just not in WA. 

Cally Dupe & Bob Garnant

A truck is loaded with lithium condensate at the Greenbushes mine.

MiningCommentsPremiumDecision on lithium railway reopening pushed back again

A further delay suggests a decision may now not be made until 2026.

Sean Smith

Former Hedland Export Depot owner and 2011 Live Export Class Action claimant Paul Brown.

Cattle In CourtPremiumClass action claimants frustrated by Fed Court finding

Live cattle export ban class action claimants have expressed their frustration over the Federal Court’s findings that the 2011 ban had no effect on low exports in 2012 and 2013.

Georgia Campion & Cally Dupe