A police officer has been seriously injured after the police car he was in crashed with a semi-trailer while on highway patrol duties near Northam.
Caleb Runciman and Shannon Hampton
Dairy beef is being seen as a valuable market opportunity in WA due to its taste quality, not just a way to manage non-replacement calves.
Melissa Pedelty
WA has helped propel Australia’s red meat industry to a record-breaking financial year, recording its highest annual mutton kill since 2008.
Cally Dupe
Hundreds of women in WA’s farming and agriculture industry flocked to the sold out Women in Farming 2025 event to learn, trade experiences, and network.
Georgia Campion
Local egg farmer Lyn Kennedy has become part of the fabric of the Newdegate Machinery Field Days and this year marks a historic milestone for her: the supply of more than 50,000 eggs to the event since 1983.
WA’s dairy industry is labelling the price increase of major supermarkets’ generic milk a “missed opportunity” to support the farmers who continue to be devastated by rising input costs.
The world’s agricultural largest drone, the DJI Agri T100, will make its WA debut at the Dowerin Machinery Field Days, showing off its advanced spraying technology.
A Canadian giant’s plan to buy Yeeda Pastoral Company has taken a major step forward after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from a minority shareholder trying to block the $55 million deal.
The Grower Group Alliance is reeling from a complete funding cut from the State Government in the latest Budget, a move that chief executive Rikki Foss says is “surprising” and “disappointing”.
A highly awarded Gnowangerup-bred Poll Merino ram offered by the House family of Barloo stud sold to a top of $26,000 at the Rabobank WA Sheep Show & Sale.
Bob Garnant
WA’s harvest potential continues to surge, with the latest estimates of a ‘near record’ 21 million tonne crop forecast on the back of plentiful winter rain.
The 2025 WAFarmers Dairy Conference drew hundreds of industry professionals from across the State to hear from several industry stalwarts on a range of topics from milk export opportunities to robot dairying.
Kulin farmer Brad Smoker is rapt with the health of his clover and oats mix despite receiving a slightly below average amount of rainfall so far this year.
The Mullan family of Eastville Park Merino and Poll Merino stud in Wickepin took out the prestigious supreme title at the Rabobank WA Sheep Expo & Sale.
According to the latest data, more and more Australians are finding it harder to afford a balanced diet. This means going without essential nutrients, including those found in protein-rich foods.
Margo Andrae
Pressure on biosecurity is increasing around the globe, with an escalation in exotic pest, weed and disease detections over the past decade at home and abroad.
Heather Brayford
Australian Wool Innovation has combined fibres from land and sea to create a “ground breaking” new natural performance fibre.
WA Merino field days combined with the Rabobank WA Sheep Expo & Ram Sale had 35 studs displaying and or showing Merino and Poll Merinos at various locations throughout the Great Southern.
WA wool industry experts do not anticipate a decline in demand for Australian wool, despite Chinese industry representatives listing Australia as their third-preference wool source.
Case IH’s latest, largest, and most powerful Steiger will make its global debut at the AgQuip Field Days near Gunnedah in New South Wales.
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has imposed sweeping new restrictions on the insecticide fenitrothion.
WA is free from Queensland fruit fly for the tenth time after eight months of community efforts to eradicate the pest that attacks fruit and vegetables.
Gun lobbyists have vowed to continue fighting Labor’s new gun laws after a bid to stall the Firearms Act was narrowly defeated by just two votes.
Georgia Campion, Jessica Page & Oliver Lane
Sheep and lamb prices have softened earlier this week from a national perspective but still remain at historically strong levels in WA.
DEAN HUBBARD
