Rural property tycoon lists $15m Murray riverfront estate with rival
Prominent dealmaker’s holdings hit the market following an investment loss and settlement of bitter legal dispute.
Agribusiness
PM sees for himself as drought bites
Anthony Albanese has finally heeded pleads to visit drought-stricken areas. Farmers say ‘action’ is what is needed next from the PM.
Riding the goat tales of a homegrown revolution
Australia was famously raised on the sheep’s back and loves a well cooked steak, but there’s a new Aussie-grown meat creating a sensation locally – and overseas.
Aussie families snap up Qld cattle empire for $200m-plus
The late Ray Scott’s sprawling 100,930ha pastoral portfolio has been carved up, with 10 farms sold to nine different buyers. See all the details.
Investors push Nufarm board to put the business up for sale
Allan Gray’s Simon Mawhinney is due to meet with the board on Wednesday and wants it to test the market’s interest in a takeover for the whole business.
Beefing up: SA wagyu pioneer sees sizzling demand in China
Wagyu industry pioneer Scott de Bruin is looking to ramp up production at his Mayura Station as global demand for Australia’s premium beef continues to rise.
Ravaged farmers: drought needs the PM’s attention, too
There may be floods in NSW but increasing swaths of southeastern Australia are so drought-stricken that stock is being slaughtered and crops are in doubt.
Trust in carbon emissions scheme eroded
The federal government’s carbon emissions scheme has drawn criticism from two industry heavyweights, who say reforms are needed to rebuild confidence.
Dairy firm directors face grilling on $72m collapse
Directors of failed dairy firm Beston Global Food will face the music in court, with liquidators pushing ahead with a public examination into its $72m collapse.
Super tax an existential threat, say farmers
The National Farmers Federation warns that thousands of farms are threatened by the proposed super tax on unrealised capital gains.
Lambie’s anti-salmon stance may cost her political career
During the election campaign, Jacqui Lambie told the salmon industry to ‘piss off’ out of her home state. Many of her former supporters have delivered her the same message at the ballot box.
World must brace for tariff-induced higher food prices: GrainCorp
As Australian farmers plant their winter crops in volatile times, major wheat, barley and canola exporter GrainCorp predicts the Trump tariff war will push up food prices.
Trump’s gift to Australia – a beef monopoly in China
China has effectively blocked US beef from entering the country, and is instead looking to Australia to fill the vacuum with even the most patriotically American branded restaurants looking increasingly Aussie.
Shock departure of top exec at billionaires’ plaything AACo
The nation’s biggest agricultural company is reeling from the sudden exit of an influential executive, who quit by saying ‘I’m simply going to focus on my own career’.
Forgotten drought ‘must be first priority for new PM’
A crisis of historic proportions is unfolding across much of southern Australia, but farmers say you wouldn’t know it from federal election campaign.
One of world’s largest wine companies to set up HQ in Adelaide
One of the world’s largest wine companies, which owns some of the most iconic brands and sells $1.5bn annually, will set up its headquarters in Adelaide after a high-profile merger.
Timber: forest industry fells Labor
Australia’s peak timber industry body has passed its verdict on the major parties’ policies, with implications for key marginal seat battlegrounds.
China’s billion dollar Aussie wine revival
Australian wine exports to China have surged past $1bn in the first full year of trade since tariffs were lifted, but Donald Trump’s trade war looms as a worry for producers.
Just a tick: peak farming group delivers scorecard
The nation’s peak farming body has rated the policies of the main political parties. The outcome could swing votes in key rural and regional seats.
Welfare meeting ‘breaches caretaker rules’
A government roundtable on animal welfare standards breaches caretaker conventions, livestock exporters claim, pointing to sharp political differences on the issue.
Salmon crisis triggered on ‘thin evidence’
The long-running saga over salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour was triggered by green groups on ‘questionable’ and ‘thin’ evidence, a new report finds.
Westpac banking on the bush again
The banking major has admitted it got it wrong after shuttering its Moree branch, reopening the operation in a bid to expand bush business banking.
Labor pushing ahead in key seat
A parachuted-in candidate will save Labor in one of the nation’s most marginal seats, polling suggests, but the Coalition wins points on fuel tax, and Jacqui Lambie inflames the salmon wars.
Parties pressured over cattle ban compo
A decision of the Gillard government has come back to haunt the Albanese administration in the middle of an election campaign.
Strategic warning on food security
Australia plans to spend up to $360bn on nuclear subs but could struggle to feed itself in an extended conflict, says a landmark report. It wants food security treated as seriously as defence.
US tariffs damaging but Americans will suffer: Aussie farmers
Donald Trump’s tariffs are damaging but Americans may hurt the most, say Australia’s farmers and meat producers, as they back the decision not to retaliate – or dumb down biosecurity.
What’s the beef? ‘We can’t risk clean, green image’
Why beef farmers with skin in Donald Trump’s tariff game would rather a fight than giving ground on biosecurity.
Australian almonds move to cash in on Trump’s tariffs
Olympic swimming champion Kyle Chalmers has been recruited to sell the story of Australian almonds to the world as the local industry seeks to cash in on the US trade war.
Plibersek plunges in polls, as DiCaprio enters salmon debate
Tanya Plibersek is paying a personal political price for Anthony Albanese’s pro-salmon farming law, polling suggests, as a Hollywood superstar weighs in.
Budget disappoints farmers
Federal Budget: Trade, food security boost but mixed on water, biosecurity
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