Feb 25, 2019
Will the deal be Don or will pigs fly? - By Peter McMeekin
World Grain ReportNo matter what news source you read, watch or listen to at the moment, China seems to be dominating the daily news cycle, particularly in the rural commodity sphere.All the talk in agriculture circles late last week…
Feb 25, 2019
Does diversity help with weed control and herbicide resistance?
By Cindy Benjamin with Ken Flower, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia School of Agriculture and EnvironmentBack in 2006, the WA No-Tillage Farmers Association (WANTFA) wanted to investigate the long-term effect of…
Feb 25, 2019
Viterra Harvest wrap up - Four million tonnes received
Viterra has received around four million tonnes of grain for the 2018/19 season as harvest comes to a close.Most deliveries to sites through the network are now taking grain from on farm storage.Viterra provides growers with delivery…
Feb 25, 2019
CBH budget $150 million for projects to add 800,000 tonnes of new storage
The CBH Group will continue its elevated delivery of the Network Strategy this year with more than $150 million budgeted for projects that will add over 800,000 tonnes of new storage and associated inloading and outloading equipment…
Feb 25, 2019
Climate Solutions Fund must help Farmers adapt to change
The National Farmers' Federation says the Government's proposed Climate Solutions Package contains a number of measures that must help support agriculture to reach its potential."Reducing emissions and being valued for our land stewardship…
Feb 25, 2019
CSIRO - Early sowing systems can boost Australian Grain industry
New findings from research by La Trobe University and CSIRO made possible with GRDC investment could lead to a significant increase in the Australian wheat crop yield—adding potentially around $1.8 billion to the national economy…
Feb 25, 2019
Fixing the Murray-Darling Basin
By David Lewis & John LangfordUnease about the Murray-Darling Basin has been on the rise again. We’ve seen water being stolen in northern New South Wales, with the authorities negligent or even complicit; farmers and towns under stress…
Feb 24, 2019
Rural Funds boss said their assets are performing well
Rural Funds Group was unaffected by the recent devastating Northern Queensland floods and in fact received “beneficial rain” on some of its cattle properties, according to managing director David Bryant.The trust, which lifted the…
Feb 23, 2019
Ag Tech Sunday - $212 billion fertiliser industry has essentially remained unchanged for 100 years
Pivot Bio is disrupting the N fertilizer industry with the release of PROVEN™, their sustainable nitrogen-producing microbe for corn. In trials last year, farmers using this flagship product had a 7.7 bushel per acre advantage over…
Feb 23, 2019
Ag Tech Sunday - Christchurch based CertusBio pockets $20k at evokeAG pitch event
Close to 1,200 international delegates packed Melbourne’s iconic Royal Exhibition Building on Wednesday, 20 February to cheer on the four Pitch Tent winners announced at the inaugural, sold-out evokeAG event.Thirteen finalists from…
Feb 23, 2019
Ag Tech Sunday - $50 million available for Ag Tech start-ups
Australian grain growers are set to reap benefits of a $50 million venture capital fund to draw the best and brightest tech start-ups from across the globe to focus on innovative solutions for grain growers’ hardest to solve problems.The…
Feb 22, 2019
Wool EMI up 59 cents on the back of the South African Foot and Mouth outbreak
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolThe announcement that China had banned wool exports from South Africa due to a Foot-And-Mouth outbreak resulted in a roller coaster ride for the Australian wool market this week.It initially had a positive…
Feb 22, 2019
Steering a unified approach towards fish recovery in the Murray–Darling
By Phillip Glyde - Chief Executive Murray Darling Basin AuthorityThe death of thousands upon thousands of native fish in the Darling River downstream of the Menindee Lakes over summer has been distressing for the local community and…
Feb 22, 2019
Mecardo Analysis - Sausages, coal and interest rates
By Andrew Whitelaw | Source: Mecardo, CME, RBA. The grain market is not only steered by agricultural factors, many of the driving forces behind price movements are out with the industry. In this weeks grain comment we look at how…
Feb 22, 2019
Mecardo Analysis - Market pays no heed to supply warnings
By Angus Brown | Source: MLA. With everything pointing towards lower cattle supply, and grain prices on the wane, we would think the market should start taking heed at some stage. It was not this week though, with the downward trend…
Feb 22, 2019
Mecardo Analysis - Weekly Wool Forwards for week ending 22 February 2019
By Olivia Agar | Source: Riemann, Mecardo. Last week we tipped more activity on the forwards market in the coming weeks. What we didn’t expect, was the driving force behind the spike to come from South Africa. With China suspending…
Feb 22, 2019
Mecardo Analysis - Signs of tightening supply
By Matt Dalgleish | Source: MLA, Mecardo. A nice lift in prices across the board for all NLRS reported categories of lamb and sheep along the East coast this week, as saleyard throughput figures suggest supply is on the wane. The…
Feb 22, 2019
Mecardo Analysis - Wool market Springboks past 2,000 cent mark
By Robert Herrmann | Source: AWEX, Mecardo. If we were to think of what “black swan” events might impact the wool market in 2019, Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in South Africa (SA) would not have been high on the list. This,…
Feb 21, 2019
Back to the past - Case IH Axial-Flow system turns 40
The idea debuted at last year's AgQuip Field Days in Gunnedah NSW, was launched on the global stage earlier this year, and in 2019 local farmers will have their chance to own a piece of Case IH heritage-inspired machinery.To be launched…
Feb 21, 2019
US reports fail to provide market direction
By Bridie George - AWBWith the much-anticipated USDA reports finally surfacing on Friday night, they contained little to create fireworks or write home about. Winter wheat seeding acres aligned fairly closely with market expectations,…
