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10:30 AM | AUSTRALIA'S largest live cattle exporter, Consolidated Pastoral, has taken a $34 million hit on the value of its property portfolio. | Cattle deaths at Qld research... | On the road and spoilt by feed

Lion not deterred

4:00 AM | BEER may be the beverage that built Lion's parent company Kirin Holdings, but despite enduring tough times in the Australian milk market the Japanese giant is not deterred by its recent experiences.

Poll's good news for ag

4:00 AM | NEWSPOLL research has painted an optimistic picture of Australian agriculture’s future and highlighted support for corporate farming. |

Comments (1) | Budget fails farmers: Greens | Ag at crossroads

Budget fails farmers: Greens

19 May 13 | THE Greens say this week’s federal budget produced a disappointing result for farming and rural communities. |

Comments (3) | Long-term vision lacking | Budget lets ag down: NFF

Ag at crossroads

18 May 13 | AUSTRALIAN agriculture owes much of its success to the research and extension system developed in the 1950s, but that system is at a crossroads, says AFI executive director Mick Keogh. |

Comments (3) | GrainCorp warns on regulation | PrimeAg asset sale hits snag

John Deere will weather squall

17 May 13 | JOHN Deere's shares traded down as the company reduced its current-year sales growth target - and bad weather is the excuse. | Agco merges with GSI | New retro-fit steering system

GrainCorp warns on regulation

17 May 13 | GRAINCORP chief Alison Watkins has warned against imposing regulatory restrictions on agricultural companies. |

Comments (1) | GrainCorp takes profit hit | Access won't change, says ADM boss

PrimeAg asset sale hits snag

16 May 13 | PRIMEAG Australia's privatisation process hit a snag this week as the company advised the market that offers for the remaining $90 million worth of rural land and water assets were "materially below book value". |

Comments (4) | GrainCorp takes profit hit | Long-term vision lacking

GrainCorp takes profit hit

16 May 13 | TAKEOVER target Graincorp has posted sharply lower March half earnings, hurt by lower throughput, acquisition costs and the cost of defending itself from a takeover bid received from US agricultural commodities group Archer Daniels Midland. |

Comments (2) | Trust us, says ADM | ADM faces criticism

Farmers win as dollar dips

16 May 13 | AUSTRALIAN farmers are getting an ironic flow-on benefit from a global decline in commodity markets as our inflated exchange rate finally loses some of its heat and makes farm exports more competitive. | $100b to protect reforms | Budget lets ag down: NFF

MG makes its move

16 May 13 | VICTORIA'S big Murray Goulburn (MG) co-operative has begun its cross-border manoeuvres to lure NSW dairy farmers to supply milk for its 10-year house brand contract with Coles supermarkets. | Farmers win as dollar dips | Tetra Pak to boost dairy sales...

MPs clash in corridors

15 May 13 | TENSIONS between Independent MP Tony Windsor and Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce flared up in a robust exchange in the parliamentary press gallery. |

Comments (43) | Nash eyes leadership role | Why I'm taking on Windsor

Long-term vision lacking

15 May 13 | AGRICULTURE has been spared major funding cuts in the 2013-14 Federal Budget, but hopes of gaining new funding for the sector’s longer term vision to feed Asia have not been met. |

Comments (3) | Show us the money: Cobb | Budget lets ag down: NFF

Access won't change, says ADM boss

15 May 13 | GRAIN price competition and access to the GrainCorp grain storage and port network won't change if Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) takes control of the business, says its grains boss, Ian Pinner. |

Comments (2) | Trust us, says ADM | Agribusiness takeover risks

Trust us, says ADM

15 May 13 | ARCHER Daniels Midland is fending off questions about whether it will sell off or scale down GrainCorp assets to help pay for its $3 billion-plus takeover of the big Australian grain company. |

Comments (4) | ADM faces criticism | GrainCorp always looking ahead

Budget lets ag down: NFF

14 May 13 | WHILE acknowledging relief that agriculture was spared from major cuts, NFF president Duncan Fraser said the Federal Budget "robs Peter to pay Paul". |

Comments (6) | Budget delivers $99.4m for farm... | Show us the money: Cobb

Budget delivers $99.4m for farm households

14 May 13 | THE federal budget has delivered a new $99.4 million Farm Household Allowance as part of the National Drought Program Reform. |

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Show us the money: Cobb

14 May 13 | SHADOW Agriculture Minister John Cobb says the best thing the Labor government could deliver in this year’s budget is a change of attitude towards agriculture. |

Comments (14) | $100b to protect reforms | Budget needs ag focus: Farley

Incitec Pivot upbeat on volume growth

14 May 13 | INCITEC Pivot managing director James Fazzino is confident his mining explosives business will benefit from resources companies focus on volume growth rather than new projects. | Big dry hits cattle prices | NAPCO looks at sale options

$100b to protect reforms

14 May 13 | ALMOST $100 billion in expenditure on education and disability insurance is to be locked in for a decade as the federal government tries to insulate its reforms from future economic pressures and force the hand of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. | Budget needs ag focus: Farley | Big dry hits cattle prices

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How Australia cottoned on

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PARKLANDS have released a new wood chipper just in time for the colder months.

Agco merges with GSI

AGCO Australia has merged with the GSI Group - a global supplier of grain storage, material handling, conditioning and drying solutions.

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Wool's upward trend

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Sharing a common goal

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Cattle deaths at Qld research station

The RSPCA has backed an investigation into the deaths of 46 heifers at a state government research station.

No grazing in parks: Burke

CONTROVERSY has erupted over the federal government’s refusal to open up former cattle stations - now...

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CPC loss 'due to live ex ban'

AUSTRALIA'S largest live cattle exporter, Consolidated Pastoral, has taken a $34 million hit on the value...

Budget fails farmers: Greens

THE Greens say this week’s federal budget produced a disappointing result for farming and rural communities.