AWB, GrainCorp to merge in $2bn deal

Story Added Fri, 30^th of Jul 2010

GRAINS marketers GrainCorp and AWB have said that the two companies will merge to create one of Australia's largest diversified agribusinesses.

The two companies said that GrainCorp will issue to ...

Russian crop uncertainty remains focus

Story Added Fri, 30^th of Jul 2010

The wheat market endured a choppy week. Fundamentally the focus remains on early yields and weather in the EU and Russia.

The USDA has the Russian wheat crop at 53mmt but now there is talk of a sub ...

Choppy market looking overvalued

Story Added Thu, 29^th of Jul 2010

The market has been locked in a battle between uncertainty over European yields and improving conditions for US crops. Wheat futures have chopped around for the past week at between ...

New Locust web tool as rebate scheme unveiled

Story Added Wed, 28^th of Jul 2010

The Brumby Labor Government has unveiled a new web-based program to help farmers make informed decisions on the best use of chemicals in the war on locusts this spring.

The new web-based ...

Wagga Wagga to host ABARE’s NSW Regional Outlook conference

Story Added Wed, 28^th of Jul 2010

The commodity outlook and financial performance of key agricultural industries across south-east New South Wales will be released at ABARE’s Wagga Wagga Regional Outlook conference on Wednesday ...

Warmer conditions for most of Australia over the next 3 months

Story Added Tue, 27^th of Jul 2010

The national outlook for temperatures over the period July-September shows a moderate to strong tendency in the odds favouring warmer than normal daytime temperatures over WA, NT, Queensland, and ...

Pacific Ocean in early stages of a La Niña event

Story Added Mon, 26^th of Jul 2010

Tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures continued to cool over the past fortnight, and are now approaching levels typical of a La Niña. Similarly, other ENSO indicators are also at or exceeding La ...

East coast crops off to strong start

Story Added Fri, 23^rd of Jul 2010

The first set of crop condition data for the east coast indicates the crop has got away to one of the best starts in many years. With the season still in its infant stages, prospects for all crops, ...

Neutral rainfall outlook over most of Australia

Story Added Fri, 23^rd of Jul 2010

The national outlook for total rainfall over the late winter to mid-spring period (August to October), is neutral with the odds favouring neither wetter nor drier conditions across most of the ...

Prices make big strides forward

Story Added Thu, 22^nd of Jul 2010

The excitement over potential production losses across Europe, Russia and Black Sea region has subsided somewhat as reports of improving European yields calm buyer nerves.

However, this was not ...

Authority cuts and runs from scrutiny

Story Added Wed, 21^st of Jul 2010

TODAY the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) confirmed it will dodge releasing its already delayed and highly contentious precursor to the proposed Basin Plan until after the ...

Wheat classification arrangements extended

Story Added Tue, 20^th of Jul 2010

Australia’s wheat classification system will continue under the current arrangements until 31 December 2010.

The GRDC has agreed to the extension of the current wheat classification ...

Scholar pursues dairy breeding excellence

Story Added Tue, 20^th of Jul 2010

Victorian Nuffield Scholar Paul Mumford believes advances in genomics have the potential to provide quantum leaps forward in dairy herd performance.

The commercialisation of dairy gene markers in ...

Soil carbon’s future in fortifying farms

Story Added Mon, 19^th of Jul 2010

Soil organic carbon (SOC) will play a crucial role in the future of mixed farming systems according to research to be presented at the NSW Grassland Society annual conference in Dubbo, July 28 and ...

Good market action this week

Story Added Fri, 16^th of Jul 2010

Action in global commodity markets this week was promising. Market participants ignored a lift in US corn crop condition ratings and a less bullish than expected USDA S&D report to push grain ...