ASIC alleges Chinese state firm manipulated wheat prices
The corporate regulator is suing a $109bn Chinese-owned state firm for wheat price manipulation on 34 occasions.
Agribusiness
Beston courting proposals on core dairy business
The beleaguered company has offloaded its meat division and is now courting proposals relating to its core dairy business in a bid to stay viable.
Ex-AACo boss looks to US market
Former Australian Agricultural Company chief executive Hugh Killen, who left the company abruptly two years ago, said he was always going to settle back into the rural sector.
Complacency, red tape strangle producers
Australia’s $150bn food and agriculture sector is facing a crisis as it battles rising regulation, surging energy costs and tax imposts with the industry demanding a national plan to fix issues.
A bold plan can make Australia a food superpower
In the endless chase for critical minerals or renewables, we are taking for granted an industry that is already creating wealth.
Tax on foreign investors ‘scares off capital’
A top agribusiness fund manager says governments’ taxes on foreign investment are driving capital away from Australia.
Farmers still face bill for biosecurity protection
Farmers thought they had seen the end of the government’s biosecurity funding legislation but Agriculture Minister Murray Watt says consultation is ongoing.
Plan needed to keep farming through tough times
Australia exports about 70 per cent of the food produced here but the industry says that doesn’t guarantee our food security.
Diversification the key for Australian exporters
The lesson from China’s tariffs on Australian goods has been a harsh one, highlighting the risk of having too many eggs in one basket.
‘Disastrous consequences’ of methane tax on cattle
Denmark will tax farmers $144 a cow in a bid to reduce methane emissions. Australian pastoralists say it would destroy the industry if replicated here.
Proterra planning Australian plunge
One of the leading private equity investors in the food sector in Asia is poised to make its first investment in Australia and is eyeing fresh opportunities in China.
Noumi sounds warning on high-cost Australia
Lessons needed to be learned from the closure of industries in Australia because of high domestic costs, Noumi CEO Michael Perich warns.
The next big things in agriculture
This year food security will finally deliver on the promise. What has changed is that many countries are now really experiencing food shortages.
Coles leader warns on food inflation, divestiture powers
The supermarket giant’s commercial boss has warned threatened divestiture powers could result in food and grocery prices rising even higher.
How Australia became a global ‘food superpower’
Australia has quietly become a ‘food superpower’ with 1200 factories popping up over the past decade and exports more than doubling, billionaire Anthony Pratt tells the Global Food Forum.
Government support key to driving agriculture growth
The Australian’s Global Food Forum has heard that food and agriculture industry in Australia has plenty of growth potential if supported by government and a holistic approach is taken.
How Australia became a global ‘food superpower’
Australia has quietly become a ‘food superpower’ with 1200 factories popping up over the past decade and exports more than doubling, billionaire Anthony Pratt will tell the Global Food Forum.
Ministers ‘must unite’ to push food exports: Costa boss
Marc Werner has called on the whole federal government, including the Prime Minister, to step up and help fresh Aussie produce get into more international markets.
Crushing it! Lifting of China tariffs uncorks wine exports
New data shows the growth in Australian wine exports to China since tariffs were lifted in late March.
Fresh hope for food group but hundreds of jobs in limbo
A buyer has been found for Tasmania’s HS Fresh Food Group after it fell into administration, but hundreds of employees across the country face a nervous wait to learn their fate.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/agribusiness/page/7