Wet and wild conditions are not dampening the Margaret River region’s wine production, with several wineries expecting measured and even yields with chardonnay and sauvignon blanc looking best suited.
Craig Duncan
A top truck tech from WA has flown to Chicago to compete for the title of best Caterpillar technician in the world.
Danielle Marsland
A national regulator has revoked a permit for salmon farmers to use an antibiotic on the basis it poses an unacceptable exposure risk to wild sea creatures.
Ethan James
An increase in bushfires in WA’s freshly wrapped-up harvest season has triggered a series of workshops across key grain growing regions to gain real-time knowledge from farmers.
Georgia Campion
WA grain growers have a new opportunity to shape the industry, with five positions now open on CBH’s Growers’ Advisory Council.
The Inaugural Arkle Angus Rosa Brook Bull Sale brought a crowd of return and new buyers to the Cowan family’s new venue in WA’s South West cattle country.
Bob Garnant
Entering the sale arena in a motion that shook the ground, Angus bull Coonamble Rock Solid V105 commanded its $52,000 top-price bid convincingly.
Beef cattle producers paved their way further into the black at the Torrisi family’s annual Black Market Angus Bull Sale with prices reaching a top of $24,000.
Western Australia’s biggest family-owned dairy farm is taking its future off-grid, and it’s already paying off.
Madelin Hayes
West Australian shoppers could soon be forking out more at the supermarket, with agribusinesses bracing for higher oil and fertiliser prices to bleed into production costs amid war in the Middle East.
Cheyanne Enciso, Simone Grogan and Georgia Campion
A Main Roads report has revealed driver fault as the primary cause behind a notoriously dangerous intersection in a Wheatbelt town that has been the site of hundreds of near misses and accidents.
Hannah Whitehead
Local councils want wind farm developers forced to pay for community benefits, but have welcomed the State Government’s new guidelines as an important step forward.
Jessica Page
WA lamb supply may hit a truning point based on a decade of Trade Lamb Indicator history showing a consistent seasonal pattern.
DEAN HUBBARD
An innovative new AI-powered crop spraying system made its first ever grower demonstration in Manjimup on Friday evening, bringing together local farming expertise and cutting edge technology.
Serian Lockwood-Jones
Warren District Agricultural Society president Aimee Bendotti and her prize-winning chocolate potato cake recipe have been selected to feature in a new cook book.
A proposed 458ha pine plantation near Northcliffe has been refused by the Shire of Manjimup council, following passionate objections from residents.
WA’s primary industries have been revealed to contribute more than $11 billion to the State economy with the export market jumping more than 50 per cent.
The West can reveal new guidelines to ensure local communities benefit from wind and solar projects excludes major infrastructure that will be needed to connect them to WA’s power grid.
WA’s goat meat production has soared to new heights as a new record of more than 63,000 tonnes was produced across the country last year
The owner of a $6.5 billion manufacturing plant currently under construction in Western Australia’s north is poised to become a major beneficiary of the US-Israel war on Iran.
Adrian Rauso
Farmers looking for a pre-season game plan are invited to team up with industry experts who are kicking winning goals in the Merino industry.
Bob Garnant & Rourke Walsh
Australia’s peak animal care and protection organisation has introduced a new name for its independent certification program for increased consumer trust and confidence in meat products.
National Farmers Federation and Pingelly broadacre cropping farmer John Hassell has been asked to step down as vice-president for comments concerning sexual harassment against women in the agriculture industry.
A Wheatbelt shire has been in court after admitting to clearing native flora from an endangered reserve without a permit and laying a road in its place.
