Kulin grain grower Barry West is keeping a positive outlook on this years cropping program despite fuel and fertiliser uncertainty, after receiving some much needed rain.
Georgia Campion
Grain Producers Australia chief executive Colin Bettles has stepped down from his leading role, handing the reins over to former Cattle Council chief Duncan Bremner.
The conflict in the Middle East has opened up the potential for canola as an answer to soaring biofuel demands, creating a more diversified base for Aussie farmers.
WA’s grain growers are facing another whammy to the industry — a $1 billion damaging mouse plague — after about thousands of burrows were found in key farming regions.
Georgia Campion & Sienna Seychell
New faba bean trials through the Great Southern are kicking off with the aim of improving profitability in the legumes’ production following a successful shipment from Albany last year.
Australia’s grain producers are already swallowing the pressures on the fuel and fertiliser supply chains as fuel stations in WA begin to run dry
Declining confidence among WA farmers has copped another blow as input costs skyrocket in the lead-up to seeding and the winter cropping season.
Australia’s heavy reliance on imported fertiliser — coupled with a limited capacity for onshore manufacturing — is “severely” exposed to the conflict in the Middle East.
Farmers across WA have been forced to rethink their fertiliser use as the conflict in the Middle East grows and uncertainty around securing supplies heightens as seeding approaches.
A $200 million program to upgrade freight rail at two CBH Group receival sites and speed up the grain supply chain and market has been completed four years after it was first announced.
More than $3 million has been committed for a decade on the 10th anniversary of the Western Crop Genetics Alliance to keep helping farmers grow more grain with less rain.
Swiss agriculture business Syngenta has called time on global paraquat manufacturing, a key weed-control chemical, amid a delayed review by Australia’s chemical regulator and thousands of lawsuits.
Dr Jeremy Curry has been tackling pre-harvest issues to improve farming management strategies.
Danielle Marsland
A GRDC panel addressed the critical need for the agricultural sector to maintain its social licence to operate through building trust on a shared values-based level.
Agronomists, farmers and researchers flocked to Optus Stadium for the WA grains industry calendar’s premier event.
Should growers continue to pursue pulses despite their smaller scale?
Australia’s largest ruminant feedmill is looking to the future, developing a revolutionary new low-methane sheep feed — patent pending — designed to enhance sheep productivity.
Danielle Marsland and Georgia Campion
Garren Knell, Narrogin-based agricultural consultant for ConsultAg, took to the stage at the Grains Research Update 2026 to speak about grass weed control in oats.
The election results of the two member director roles under contention at Co-operative Bulk Handling have been announced, with one new face joining the board
New research could save more than $300 million in lost cereal yields and quality across the Australian grains industry caused by frost damage.
Flaxleaf fleabane is becoming an increasing problem faced by WA grain growers due to its climate flexibility and herbicide resistance
Maintaining canola production without increasing disease-related yield losses was the hot topic presentation from a visiting Victorian canola pathology researcher at WA’s biggest grain conference
A Southern Cross grower and Nuffield Scholar has been recognised as an emerging leader at WA’s premier grains industry and research conference.
WA”s biggest grains conference has kicked off at Perth’s Optus Stadium, celebrating three decades of industry research, technologies, and innovation.
