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DAFF knocks back ‘importer pays’ levy alternatives

DAFF officials have voiced concerns about alternatives to the proposed Biosecurity Protection Levy put forward by industry. ..Read More

Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024

News

GPA, GrainGrowers critical of proposed biosecurity levy

GPA and GrainGrowers were united in opposition to the current Biosecurity Protection Levy framework when they fronted a senate inquiry into the proposed legislation yesterday…Read More

Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024

News

Downs trucks work through big competition for little volume

Freight rates for Qld grain are firming after a tough nine months which has seen rates plummet to as low as 7c/km/t, down from 22c seen when exports were booming into early 2023…Read More

Liz Wells, April 24, 2024

Markets

Feedgrain Focus: Sowing limits grower selling

Solid export demand for wheat and barley in the southern market, and an uptick in consumer demand in the north, have seen prices firm in the past week…Read More

Liz Wells, April 24, 2024

News

Growers urged to watch for mice as numbers climb

Reports of moderate to high mouse activity are coming in from several regions across Australia, and growers and advisors are urged to monitor and act on building populations…Read More

Grain Central, April 24, 2024

Markets

Daily Market Wire 24 April 2024

Brazil, Argentina post positive corn, soy news. Uncertain Western Australian weather outlook supports new crop wheat and canola bids…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, April 24, 2024

Markets

Pakistan expects record wheat crop

Amid bumper harvest, wheat nutritional importance in Pakistan on the one hand has farmers seeking better terms and on the other government gatekeeping cheaper import…Read More

Peter McMeekin - Grain Brokers Australia, April 23, 2024

Weather

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 24 Apr 2024

Rain in Australia’s cropping areas in the past week was largely confined to south-east Qld and northern NSW…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, April 23, 2024

News

Biosecurity levy to cost grains $12.25M
Grain Central, April 22, 2024

Cropping

Revystar on market, Victrato at gate as APVMA chugs through list
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Grain Central, April 22, 2024

News

Senate report calls for moves to limit spread of fire ants
Emma Alsop, April 22, 2024

News

Consortium to capitalise on growing global oat demand
Grain Central, April 22, 2024

Markets

Daily Market Wire 23 April 2024
Lachstock Consulting, April 23, 2024

Property

Mixed farms in NSW, CQ, SA join autumn listings
Linda Rowley, April 22, 2024

Industry Dashboard

Carbon Trading Market

Aust. Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) - $/tonne of CO2 equiv.

Today

33
Source: Jarden

$A / $US

Updated 7am daily

Today

0.6487
Source: NAB

ASX Market Index

24 Apr 2024 (updated 10am daily)
Company Price Trending
Elders $8.96
Australian Agricultural Co $1.52
Graincorp $7.29
Ridley $2.12
Woolworths $36.64
Wellard $0.06
Source: ASX

SOI Graph

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Today

-0.86
Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Wheat

APW1 delivered Melbourne

Last Week

338
Source: Lachstock Consulting

Barley

FB1 delivered Melbourne

Today

319

Canola

Spot delivered Melbourne

Today

651
Source: Lachstock Consulting

Sorghum

Sorghum track Newcastle

Today

371
Source: Lachstock Consulting

What readers are saying

Revystar on market, Victrato at gate as APVMA chugs through list

The public record shows the Syngenta Victrato cereal (wheat and barley seed) application was submitted with the APVMA on 3rd September 2021. Nominally such an application takes ~15 months....

Simon Christen
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Australian malting barley cargo heads to EU

Hello Christine. Yes, we believe it is the first for this season. A cargo or two often goes when Europe is having, or has had, a difficult growing season.....

Liz Wells
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Australian malting barley cargo heads to EU

Very interesting article. Is it the first vessel of malting barley shipped to Europe for this crop? Thanks. ....

BONNENFANT Christine
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Soil health focus but no carbon project for NSW grower

Thankyou for a wonderful look at successful regenerative cropping today. A visit to these farms would make a valuable field day and assist other farmers in regenerative practices.....

mick alexander
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News

DAFF knocks back ‘importer pays’ levy alternatives

DAFF officials have voiced concerns about alternatives to the proposed Biosecurity Protection Levy put forward by industry. ..Read More

Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024

GPA, GrainGrowers critical of proposed biosecurity levy

GPA and GrainGrowers were united in opposition to the current Biosecurity Protection Levy framework when they fronted a senate inquiry into the proposed legislation yesterday…Read More

Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024

Downs trucks work through big competition for little volume

Freight rates for Qld grain are firming after a tough nine months which has seen rates plummet to as low as 7c/km/t, down from 22c seen when exports were booming into early 2023…Read More

Liz Wells, April 24, 2024

Growers urged to watch for mice as numbers climb

Reports of moderate to high mouse activity are coming in from several regions across Australia, and growers and advisors are urged to monitor and act on building populations…Read More

Grain Central, April 24, 2024

Weather

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 24 Apr 2024

Rain in Australia’s cropping areas in the past week was largely confined to south-east Qld and northern NSW…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, April 23, 2024

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 17 Apr 2024

A strong cold front crossed southern SA, Vic, Tas and southern NSW with widespread light to moderate rainfall, and snow in some alpine areas…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, April 16, 2024

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 10 Apr 2024

Substantial rain fell in much of NSW, Vic, Tas and southern Qld in the past week, with falls of up to 300mm and more in parts of coastal NSW, ..Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, April 10, 2024

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 3 Apr 2024

Widespread rain fell across the NT, Qld, and parts of northern SA and north-west NSW in the past week…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, April 3, 2024

Cropping

Revystar on market, Victrato at gate as APVMA chugs through list

While a much-anticipated tool to combat crown rot is yet to gain APVMA approval, the regulator has lately given the green light to at least one fungicide…Read More

Grain Central, April 22, 2024

DPIRD outlines techniques for managing WA’s sodic soils

DPIRD research has yielded pointers to help eastern grainbelt growers farming sodic clay soils reduce production risk and increase profitability,..Read More

Grain Central, April 22, 2024

On-farm trials key to growing mungbean production: GRDC

A four-year project designed to equip growers with the tools, tactics and confidence to successfully grow mungbeans is being launched across Qld and NSW…Read More

Grain Central, April 19, 2024

Winter-crop plant off to patchy start across Australia

Planting of Australia’s winter crop is under way in all states as a very dry WA and SA await general rain and parts of NSW have the handy problem of being too wet to plant. ..Read More

Liz Wells, April 10, 2024

Markets

Feedgrain Focus: Sowing limits grower selling

Solid export demand for wheat and barley in the southern market, and an uptick in consumer demand in the north, have seen prices firm in the past week…Read More

Liz Wells, April 24, 2024

Daily Market Wire 24 April 2024

Brazil, Argentina post positive corn, soy news. Uncertain Western Australian weather outlook supports new crop wheat and canola bids…Read More

Lachstock Consulting, April 24, 2024

Pakistan expects record wheat crop

Amid bumper harvest, wheat nutritional importance in Pakistan on the one hand has farmers seeking better terms and on the other government gatekeeping cheaper import…Read More

Peter McMeekin - Grain Brokers Australia, April 23, 2024

Daily Market Wire 23 April 2024

Wheat spikes on US winter crop condition drop. Russia boosts export quota. India wheat stock ebbs. Ukraine trims crop area. Australian cereal price firms. ..Read More

Lachstock Consulting, April 23, 2024

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Grain Central, March 19, 2024

AGT Foods Australia builds relationships as part of long game

International and local grower-buyer relationships make AGT Foods Australia a preferred partner for pulse, grain and oilseed trading through its operations in five states…Read More

Sponsored Content, November 29, 2023

Newton winter barley offers latest grain-graze option

SECOBRA barley variety Newton is available through Seednet to offer growers looking to plant as early as the first break some solid weed competition and winter feed with a grain option…Read More

Guest Author, November 6, 2023

Unearth the possibilities of your agricultural business with FarmEye

RCS has provided producers with cutting-edge tools and insights for agricultural economic analysis since 1993. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce you to what we see as the future of business analysis: FarmEye…Read More

Sponsored Content, October 9, 2023

Machinery

Alceon buys 50pc stake in Inverell’s BOSS Engineering

Australian investor Alceon Private Equity is to become a joint owner in BOSS Engineering as it enters its next growth phase…Read More

Grain Central, April 5, 2024

New seeding tech boosts crop potential at Beaumont

Improved seeding technology helped the Inkster family in WA’s Esperance region make the most of the season’s rainfall…Read More

Grain Central, February 2, 2024

Electric tractors lead charge, hydrogen in the wind

Small electric tractors are making their way into Australian agriculture, but bigger machines powered by sources including hydrogen appear to be a European venture for now. ..Read More

Liz Wells, January 24, 2024

Kubota unveils concept electric tractor at CES 2024

Kubota last week released the concept for an electric tractor which can go from 10pc to 80pc charged in under six minutes…Read More

Grain Central, January 15, 2024

Property

Mixed farms in NSW, CQ, SA join autumn listings

Pindaroi Station on the Northern Tablelands of NSW, Paldaro in South Australia’s South East, and Brackenhill in Central Queensland are on the market…Read More

Linda Rowley, April 22, 2024

Boomi farms, EP, Downs, North Burnett holdings change hands

Adjoinging farms north of Moree, Kanglea on Eyre Peninsula, Oakleigh West on the Darling Downs, and Hidden Valley at Mundubbera are among the latest properties to change hands…Read More

Linda Rowley, April 19, 2024

Ag to overtake mining as China’s top Australian investment

Agribusiness is set to overtake mining as China’s top destination for investment in Australia, a new report has found…Read More

Linda Rowley, April 18, 2024

Duxton accepts Altora Ag’s $70M offer for Timberscombe

Altora Ag is paying $70M for Duxton Farm’s Timberscombe property in the Back Creek district east of West Wyalong. ..Read More

Grain Central, April 15, 2024

AgCarbon Central

Cotton primed for carbon opportunity: Mumford

Cotton growers are in a unique position to capitalise on income opportunities from the growing carbon market, according to environmental scientist Majella Mumford…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 27, 2024

Soil health focus but no carbon project for NSW grower

While building soil carbon in grazing systems has been garnering plenty of attention, Liverpool Plains grower Scott McCalman says it should also be a focus for cropping. ..Read More

Eric Barker, March 20, 2024

Researchers seek 500 farmers for survey on regen cropping

Southern Cross University is looking for 500 growers to complete a short GRDC-endorsed survey about regenerative agriculture in cropping, with 75 to continue in a three-year study…Read More

Grain Central, March 21, 2024

Gathering soil-carbon data sets up Archers for future

One of Australia’s soil-carbon pioneers says he is hoping a comprehensive dataset being gathered on the grazing operation will help with future environmental market opportunities…Read More

Eric Barker, March 11, 2024

Beef Central

Record export trimmings price surge takes a breather – but it’s only temporary, traders say

This year’s dramatic surge in frozen beef trimmings prices – driven heavily by the US market - has taken a breather over the past week, but the consensus is that..Read More

Applications extended for female leadership program

Women wanting to increase their leadership skills and contribute to narrowing the gender gap in agriculture still have time to apply for the National Farmers’ Federation flagship Diversity in Agriculture..Read More

Industry “still in dark” on biosecurity protection levy

Australia’s livestock industries were still “in the dark’ on how the Federal Government’s proposed biosecurity protection levy would be collected just months from its proposed commencement on 1 July this..Read More

Vets association calls for university fee relief for regional vets

The Australian Veterinary Association has backed calls for a series of measures to urgently address workforce shortages in regional and remote Australia...Read More

Sheep Central

Concern biosecurity levy might compromise 2024 WoolPoll result

AUSTRALIAN wool growers might vote for a reduced levy for research, development and marketing this year if the proposed biosecurity protection levy was introduced, a Senate committee inquiry was told..Read More

Have your say on shearer, wool classer and shed hand training

A PROJECT aimed at redesigning training programs for shearers, wool classers and shed hands will hold in-person consultation workshops across Australia next month...Read More

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 23 April 2024

LIGHT to moderate rainfall impacted parts of the east coast of New South Wales as an upper level trough extended from central Queensland to northern and eastern parts of New..Read More

Wool industry to seek PICs for disease traceability

AUSTRALIA’S proposed wool traceability hub is aiming to achieve mandatory Property Identification Code declaration by all wool growers to facilitate an efficient emergency animal disease response...Read More

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