WA’s hay and silage industry now has a stronger voice at the national table with Wannamal contractor Rob Anspach joining the Australian Fodder Industry Association board.
Cally Dupe
Grain Producers Australia chair Barry Large has been reappointed to lead the national peak body for another term, following the organisation’s annual general meeting in Melbourne last week.
A new online training module will help grain businesses across Australia get up to speed with updated industry standards after the launch of a revised Australian Grain Industry Code of Practice.
A new wheat variety from Intergrain has been named after late WA grain grower and inaugural InterGrain chair Dale Baker.
Georgia Campion
WA growers were led on a study tour across the United States and Canada in July, taking the chance to gain insights into global fertiliser supply chains and and showcased agricultural innovation.
Young people from around the country flocked to the three day Innovation Generation 2025 conference in Fremantle to absorb knowledge and advice from key agricultural industry figures.
The future of the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre is up in the air as it moves away from the State Government and towards to an industry-led model.
In a lengthy session reminiscent of high school debating, agricultural representatives from WA and the eastern states went head-to-head on a panel called The Great Debate.
GrainGrowers Limited has launched two reports aimed at helping farmers demystify the complex and convoluted world of reducing carbon emissions.
Innovation Generation 2025 kicked off on July 22 with a tour of CBH Group’s Metro and Australian Grain Centre in Forrestfield.
A five-year, $21 million project to lower on-farm emissions intensity is set to shape the future of sustainable farming in Australia.
Melissa Pedelty
One person has died in a tragic end to a horrific crash between a car and a grain train near Albany on Wednesday afternoon, WA Police have confirmed.
Melissa Sheil and Hannah Whitehead
A humble volcanic rock often discarded in quarries and mines could hold the key to greener and more profitable Australian farms, according to ground breaking research led by the University of South Australia.
Western Australia’s barley industry has been dealt a blow with the discovery of net form net blotch resistant to all three major fungicide groups used for its control.
Grains Australia is investigating potential new export markets for the country’s superior faba bean, with China one such opportunity following a recent conference held in Qingdao.
WA’s grain belt has been given a timely boost — with widespread rain transforming dry, dusty paddocks into scenes of renewed hope and pushing the predicted harvest total to 19.3 million tonnes.
Western Australia’s wheat production is expected to decline this season following poor rainfall across some regions, according to an industry group, which issued its first estimates for the year.
Ben Westcott
WA crop production and grains research is set to be boosted thanks to a $5 million State Government investment into a nation-wide plant phenotyping project.
Farmers taking part in the field tours will travel to Yuna to visit Simon Smart’s farm and meet with farm manager Austin Raynor, before travelling next door to meet farmers Erin and Brady Green.
Australia’s biggest grains research corporation has put a potential $600,000 on the table to help determine the direction of its future soils and fertiliser investment.
A subsidiary of well-known grain trading business Plum Grove has made history after becoming the first company to ship wheat from the Geraldton Port, other than the State’s main grain exporter CBH Group.
WA’s first hay run to South Australia will set off in late July, as farmers lend a helping hand to their drought-affected neighbours.
Mid West farmers are celebrating after “game changing” rains continue to fall, putting their worries at ease after a bone-dry start to the year.
Cally Dupe and Bob Garnant
The Grains Research and Development Corporation has clapped back at reports it has $1 billion sitting idle in Federal Treasury.
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