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Elders posts record $60m earnings
4:00 PM AEST | Elders Rural Services boss Mike Guerin was able to hand out some good news last week as he prepares to push the button on a sweeping corporate restructure by announcing who will head the company's 20 new management regions.  | SA first: Region-wide wireless ... | SA first: Region-wide wireless ...
Interest rate cut needed, Reserve Bank says
19/08/2008 | Borrowers take heart: the Reserve Bank of Australia feels your pain. The central bank, acknowledging a slump in borrowing, lower consumer confidence, and weaker growth prospects, says an early rate reduction may be needed.  | CommentsComments (1) | Little risk to interest rate cuts | Food price inflation may slow ...
Zero allocation for northern Vic irrigators
18/08/2008 | Goulburn-Murray Water has announced that all regulated water systems in northern Victoria will have a zero allocation of high-reliability water shares.  | Rudd confuses MDB Communities ... | Compulsory water buybacks a ...
Little risk to interest rate cuts
18/08/2008 | Even the dogs are barking that the Reserve Bank board is almost certain to cut the official interest rate at its meeting in two weeks' time. But those expecting a cut of 50 basis points are barking up the wrong tree.  | CommentsComments (1) | $20m rural research funding up ... | Compulsory water buybacks a ...
Olympics lower ag export freight rates
17/08/2008 | Now that the Olympics are underway, global freight costs for agricultural produce are down significantly.  | Signs of revival in Korean beef ... | Young lambs start appearing in ...
Water charge risk for small settlements
14/08/2008 | Introducing a blanket user-pays system of charging for water could place some of Australia’s desert communities at a disadvantage, a new report from Desert Knowledge CRC says.  | Darling water buyback causes ... | Pipe water from the Gulf to the ...
Reports of death of Doha round trade talks premature: Lamy
14/08/2008 | World Trade Organisation Agriculture director-general Pascal Lamy disagrees with claims that the Doha round of trade talks have collapsed. He says a global trade pact is still possible this year.  | WTO has "never been so close to ... | Good news for exporters: $A ...
RBA's warning to banks on interest rates
14/08/2008 | The Reserve Bank has challenged Australia's banks to pass on in full the coming cut in official interest rates, saying that they are highly profitable and becoming more so, as their costs dive.  | New statistics show family ... | AAco posts $2.1m half-year loss
Carbon…part of agriculture’s next revolution?
14/08/2008 | The industrial revolution and later the green revolution changed agriculture for the better, forever. Now it's high time for another. Perhaps carbon trading, but certainly genetic modification, water efficiency and soil science will help push agriculture into a new age.  | CommentsComments (6) | Darling water buyback causes ... | Brumby property targeted by GM ...
WTO has
13/08/2008 | World Trade Organisation Director-General Pascal Lamy says the member countries do not want the Doha Round of talks abandoned after their collapse in Geneva last month, as "too much has been achieved now to simply leave it aside".  | Brumby property targeted by GM ... | New statistics show family ...
13/08/2008 | FUTURIS remains on track to post a profit in its forecast range of $80-85 million for 2007-08 when its annual profit results are announced at the end of the week as it attempts to turn its fortunes around after a tough year.
12/08/2008 | The Australian Agricultural Company has reported a $2.1 million half-year loss, but says it is poised to turn the result around.  | CommentsComments (1) | Good news for exporters: $A ... | Murray Goulburn goes solo in ...
Good news for exporters: $A slips to US87c
12/08/2008 | Finally some relief is at hand for agricultural exporters with the dollar continuing its slide to stand at US87.74 cents at noon - it's lowest level since January.  | Murray Goulburn goes solo in ... | Foundations laid for $25B free ...
Stagflation? Now the Reserve says it's worried
12/08/2008 | Australia's Reserve Bank has expressed deep concern about Australia's economic outlook, presenting forecasts that suggest it might have lifted interest rates too high.  | Labor hangs on to power in NT | Graincorp and CHS in durum ...
Guest worker scheme a success in NZ
11/08/2008 | As Australian farmers spend season after season watching their grapes wither on the vine and their apples, peaches, pears and plums rot on the ground, New Zealand growers are enjoying the fruits of their labour for the first time in years.  | CommentsComments (1) | Farmers' fruit rots on trees | Orchards branching out with new ...
NT poll jolt puts Rudd in dangerous territory
11/08/2008 | The Federal Government has been jolted by a cliffhanger election in the Northern Territory that has come close to ending Labor's monopoly on power in all states and territories.  | Big cuts to interest rates to ... | Plucky NT independent warns ALP
Big cuts to interest rates to come but will the banks oblige?
11/08/2008 | Economists believe the Reserve Bank is about to take us on a sharp U-turn on interest rates, cutting rates again and again over the next 12 months, until they are at 2006 levels.  | Guest worker scheme a success ... | Aldi presence cuts Coles food ...
11/08/2008 | A former chicken farmer who may hold the balance of power in the Northern Territory Parliament criticised the Labor Government's planning policies and said the Chief Minister, Paul Henderson, blundered by running a negative election campaign.  | NT poll jolt puts Rudd in ... | NT swings against Labor
Same-pay deal for Pacific workers
10/08/2008 | Guest workers from the Pacific will be offered the same pay and conditions as Australian farm workers amid concern that a new federal pilot program will lead to exploitation of poorer island neighbours and "Mexicanisation" of the rural job market.  | CommentsComments (1) | Guest workers' scheme a ...
Bush talks free trade in South Korea
8/08/2008 | US President Bush met with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak on Wednesday in Seoul as part of an Asian tour.  | Guest workers' scheme a ... | Carpenter calls snap September ...
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Buy back the water licences; then what happens Mr Rudd?

17/08/2008 | The Federal Government has bolstered the cash available to buy back water licences, the greens have published their wishlist of properties to be targeted, and the drought has more farmers than ever classing themselves as 'willing sellers'. But after the water is gone, has anyone wondered what happens next?
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