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Calls for controlled traffic standards
6:37 PM AEST | Harvest contractors are calling on machinery manufacturers and the farming sector to adopt national standards for controlled traffic farming systems based on 3m wheel tracks and 12m farming strips.  | Farm machinery buyers prominent ... | Autumn tractor sales highest in ...
Five companies receive export accreditation but not AWB
26/08/2008 | AWB and ABB are two notable absentees from the list of the first five companies approved to export wheat under the new deregulated bulk wheat marketing arrangements introduced by the Government last month.  | CommentsComments (6) | Warmer but not wetter spring ahead | AWB lifts pool forecast by $30/t
AWB lifts pool forecast by $30/t
26/08/2008 | AWB's has lifted its 2008/09 Estimated Pool Returns by $30 a tonne due to a lower Australian dollar and higher US wheat futures over the past fortnight.  | Warmer but not wetter spring ahead | Fertiliser prices to stay sky ...
WA growers to have a voice on Grains Council
26/08/2008 | The Council of Grain Grower Organisations has taken the initial steps towards joining the Grains Council of Australia so that Western Australian growers can once again have a voice at the national policy making table.  | Goodman Fielder warns no profit ... | Goodman Fielder warns no profit ...
Ascochyta outbreak in Central Qld
26/08/2008 | Central Queensland's status as the only ascochyta blight disease-free chickpea cropping area in Australia is under threat following a confirmed outbreak of this fungal disease in a few Dawson-Callide crops.  | The big dry: it's not raining ... | The big dry: it's not raining ...
AWB on track to export bulk grain by rail on east coast
25/08/2008 | AWB has announced a new rail freight agreement with El Zorro and the commissioning of 84 new rail wagons to ensure that grain delivered to AWB GrainFlow on the east coast of Australia continues to go on rail as is commercially feasible.  | CommentsComments (1) | Headers pass ‘shakedown’ scrutiny | New rust-resistant triticale ... | AUDIO: Farmers sick of the AWB ...
25/08/2008 | A new rust-resistant variety of triticale, developed at the University of New England, will be commercially available early next year.  | Headers pass ‘shakedown’ scrutiny | Raw sugar outlook improves at last
High fertiliser prices to slow farm income recovery
25/08/2008 | Fertiliser prices are expected to remain above the long-term average for some time to come, slowing an expected short- to medium-term recovery in average farm incomes, according to the National Australia Bank.  | Third weed now glyphosate ... | Season's top price: $140 for ...
Defrosting crop costs with thermal imaging
20/08/2008 | Using the latest infrared thermal imaging equipment, a Qld Department of Primary Industries crop physiology team has produced the first ever images of reproductive winter cereal plants freezing under natural frost conditions in the field.
Bright harvest prospects, but concern over frost damage
20/08/2008 | The soaring price of fertiliser and chemical input costs hasn’t daunted the push by Queensland growers into expanded wheat acreage. Harvest prospects looks good, but mounting concerns over frost damage in the past fortnight are starting to emerge.  | Risk to canola exports from ... | Late planting decision looms
Late planting decision looms
19/08/2008 | Producer John Cameron, Kintyre, Bongeen, Qld, is readying his “own-engineered” 8m wide toolbar and matching Flexi-coil combination, gearing up for his summer crop planting campaign later this year.  | WA extends GM crop ban by 4yrs | Ricegrowers in US venture
WA extends GM crop ban by 4yrs
19/08/2008 | Gene Ethics applauds Premier Alan Carpenter's announcement of a four-year extension to the WA ban on all Genetically Modified food and fibre crops.  | CommentsComments (5) | ABB to run national pools in ... | Growers to take barley brewing ...
ABB to run national pools in barley, canola, wheat
18/08/2008 | ABB Grain’s general manager–marketing, Peter Jones, says the agribusiness group will run national pools for the coming harvest in barley, canola and wheat.  | WA rust pathotypes hit eastern ... | Rice gains momentum on NSW ...
WA rust pathotypes hit eastern grain crops
16/08/2008 | The GRDC is urging northern region grain growers to plan rust control strategies now following the detection of Western Australian pathotypes in the eastern states.  | Paroo ban on new dams 'breached' | Rudd forced to buyback more water
Pulse acreage falls as farmers swing to cereals
14/08/2008 | Pulse Australia has reported an overall 5pc drop in pulse plantings across the country, as farmers go for lower risk crops, such as cereals, following last year’s drought. That's despite strong prices for pulses such as lentils and chickpeas.  | Prince points to Australia as ... | New Dubbo flour mill provides ...
New Dubbo flour mill provides growers with variety
13/08/2008 | A $1.4 million upgrade to a Dubbo flour mill is an opportunity for Central West NSW croppers to plant a greater variety of cereals.  | Growers to have a say in grain ... | Pipe water from the Gulf to the ... | AUDIO: New Dubbo flour mill provides ...
13/08/2008 | Grain growers will have an opportunity to express their opinion in a review of the national variety trials announced today by the board of the Grains Research and Development Corporation.  | Pipe water from the Gulf to the ... | Investor exodus sees canola ...
Investor exodus sees canola prices plummet by $100/t
13/08/2008 | New season canola prices have dropped by close to $100 a tonne during August as the oilseeds market feels the exodus of investor money from the market.  | CommentsComments (1) | Europe food tour | WTO has "never been so close to ...
US now projecting higher crop yields
13/08/2008 | Despite June's severe flooding in the Midwest, United States farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history.  | Brumby property targeted by GM ... | VFF slams Gene Ethics for ...
Price not shares will drive grower loyalty: AWB
12/08/2008 | Price, not a the shareholding structure, will deetermine whether wheat growers remain loyal to AWB in the new deregulated export market, according to the latest research by pollsters IPSOS.  | CommentsComments (3) | GRDC funds probing cereal ... | AAco posts $2.1m half-year loss
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Preference deals with the Greens - how will it play out in the Senate?

27/08/2008 | IF farmers are wondering what the new look Senate will mean for them, they should just take a look at politics in NSW and the behind-closed-doors relationship between Labor and the Greens for a taste of what might be in store Federally.
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