Agri News & Agri Food News 7th Dec

Posted on: Dec 12, 2011 - 08:52 AM

Agri News

 

Farming on the fringe

Two resign as SA grain politics heats up

Water plan open for comment - but not on mining

Basin Plan is a start, not an end at Narrabri

Live export vote disappointing: WSPCA

Farmers enjoy bumper season, but some still suffer

Wheat crop to hit record 28m tonnes

Phoney food fears ignore nimble market solutions

Farmers back ALP live trade decision

Agriculture blueprint spells out CSG fears

Packing punch on the plate

GM risks loom for wheat industry

Cotton bale transport exemptions

Westpac targets former ground in rural banking

The future of manufacturing in regional areas

Green future for education in Roseworthy

Australian fish adapts to hotter waters: study

Livestock transporters reluctant to move cattle from outback ...

Murray-Darling environmental water wasted in 'trial and error' reforms

Hard to swallow but food security threat is very real

NSW wheat crop muddied by deluges

Water chief aware of Murrumbidgee management issues

Wine Australia downsizes offshore in bid to cut costs

Dairy co-op to trade lactose online

Welfare concerns about cattle on property in receivership

Private label push could see manufacturers leak $4 billion to ...

Push to register sensitive farm sites

Bumper cotton crop

Mining industry slams new farm laws

Floods damage Moree cotton crop

Greens' water threat simply silly: Tony Windsor

Farmers fall silent while food brings home bacon

Falling production in Brazil will help push up sugar prices

Organic garlic harvest

WA pearl farm to start growing its own shell

Japan hungry for Aussie rice

Major organic oil producer collapses

Riverland wine grape glut shows signs of easing

Grant to boost Riverland organic production

Liberal senator Sean Edwards accused as wine deal sours

Minister acts on irrigation

The battle for the food bowl

Colin Barnett says plan to pipe water to Murray Darling won't happen

Mobile phones being used to check animal welfare

Farm workers missing out

River food bowl at risk of decline

Food crisis looms amid foreign buy up

Cherry growers hope for weather break to protect crop

Water trader predicts prices will fall, then rise again

Irrigators push Labor for policy change

ALP conference rejects move to phase out live exports

Haulage costs could bite as silos fill fast

Irrigators group back Murray-Darling plan

Live exports backed but not compulsory stunning

Beef exports highest in 3 years

Farmers call start-up funding

Irrigation project opens in Tassie

Horticulture industry calls on government to pay export quarantine costs

Radfords wins two agribusiness gongs

Focus on quality for Agribusiness Award winners

Farmers key to food security

Algae grower awarded for innovation

Smart robot picks up three logistics awards for Nestlé Australia

Dairy jitters to stay: Fonterra

Watch for late season winter crop pests

Almond harvest promising

Bank under fire as cattle station goes under

All smiles despite harvest hold-ups

Farmers markets not sustainable

NFF President says Gittins article shows lack of understanding

Graziers win battle to save the land

Tasmanian forestry family returns to business

Agri Food News

 

Food package sizes cop a serve

Is Retail Food Group Undervalued?

Wine industry forced to cut overseas marketing jobs

Cost burden to supply Coles

Shopping, but not dropping

Cardboard cans?

Listing dents Bega profits

Independent bakers hit out at supermarket power

Bun fight as independent bakers demand their fair slice

Queensland Government plan for fast-food calorie counts to beat obesity

Queensland unveils new fast food laws

Woolies unlikely to hit private-label target: UBS

Woolies' ambition 'optimistic'

Sail away with Cloudy Bay

Coles to go contactless in 2012

Bright Food signals long-term investment in Australian food sector

Clyne growers chase money

New labels would expose misleading food marketing

Food manufacturers win as government rejects traffic light ...

Price wars threaten food industries: Elders

KFC franchisee Collins Foods delivers lower profit

The new night out - Australian wine and produce tasting nights

Food sector looks sluggish, but on the up

High cost puts good food out of reach

Processed food behind NZers' salt binge

Stop blaming Coles, Woolies: Farmers

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths ratch up price war in lead-up to Christmas

Web and food companies head Forbes up-and-comers list

Australia gets behind Slow Food celebration

Food gong for T&R Pastoral