Chinese plants may be good medicine for Aussie farmers
Tasmanian research promises to help Australia crack into the burgeoning traditional Chinese medicines market, tipped to exceed $450bn by 2028, and provide farmers with lucrative new crops.
Tasmanian research promises to help Australia crack into the burgeoning traditional Chinese medicines market, tipped to exceed $450bn by 2028, and provide farmers with lucrative new crops.
Western Australia is by far the largest exporting state to China, supplying 77 per cent of Australia’s $192bn in commodities to the nation’s largest trading partner.
Logan Saltmarsh is worried. But it’s not schoolwork or bolshie big kids unsettling this 12-year-old; it’s Tanya Plibersek. In fact, the whole town of Strahan is on edge.
One of Australia’s biggest salmon producers warns it may not survive if the Albanese government curtails fish farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour.
Administrators have taken control of WealthCheck, but creditors are warning attempts by Sam Mitchell to stave off a collapse of his agribusiness group will be challenged.
GrainCorp chief executive Robert Spurway has backed the Albanese government’s launch of a consultation process on developing an Australian renewable fuels industry.
The premium quality and high oil content of our national canola crop makes those fields of gold a prime feedstock for any future onshore renewable fuel production.
Fewer farmers expect the agricultural economy to improve in the coming year but the chance of a La Niña event to come provides some hope, the latest Rabobank survey finds.
The cattle country empire of Sam Mitchell has been taken over by receivers, leaving in its wake debts, unfulfilled promises and plenty of questions. Here we unravel the WealthCheck demise.
The economic impact of China reinstating trade with five banned Australian meatworks will be felt almost immediately.
If Korea’s Hanwha is so confident of getting its bid over the line it shouldn’t be concerned about stumping up a break fee, Austal is understood to believe.
Two cattle companies linked to Sydney agriculture deal-makers Sam Mitchell and Danny Thomas have collapsed owing millions.
The Bondi-based high-flyer behind $500m of agricultural deals – Sam Mitchell from WealthCheck – has crash landed after his main companies were put into liquidation.
Farmers can expect an improved 2025 financial year despite a forecast 4 per cent fall in the value of agricultural exports because of lower crop prices.
Despite a mixed start to the season Australian farmers are expected to increase winter crop planting on the back of expectations of a La Nina-inspired recovery in the west.
The struggling Beston Global Food Company’s board has been whittled down to just three directors after two board members resigned.
CBA’s business bank is seeing record levels of vehicle and equipment financing despite the murky economic outlook.
Hundreds of land owners in Queensland are seriously considering carbon farming, with the state ranked as the most supportive for the burgeoning industry.
Clean Seas Seafood has joined the chorus of protest against a proposed desalination plant at Billy Lights Point near Port Lincoln, saying the plant could be a “white elephant”.
Mark Allison has slammed the Albanese government for failing to tackle the perfect storm of challenges facing farmers across rural Australia.
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