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Chaos as at least 10 people caught up in crash on busy road

One person has been airlifted to hospital and eight other patients were taken in ambulance following the serious crash.

WA-raised shearer Nikki Lyons during her successful world record attempt.

SHEARING RECORDPremiumEWE BEAUTY! WA-raised shearer Nikki Lyons sets world record

WA-raised female gun shearer Nikki Lyons has set new shearing world record while wearing her favourite fabric of all time — wool. 

Cally Dupe

Price spoke to confirm his name and that he had heard the charge.

Courts & JusticePremiumIdentity of Armadale murder accused revealed

A Wheatbelt man has fronted court accused of murdering an older man in an argument that turned violent outside a home.

Rebecca Le May

Matilda de Gruchy, 4, had a birdseye view of the Kojonup Breeders Triple S Ram Sale, as her parents secured a Texel ram for the top price of $3100.

Kojonup Breeders ram salePremiumKojonup Breeders Ram Sale gains optimistic buyer support

The Kojonup Breeders Triple S Ram Sale resulted in all four vendors receiving a lift in average prices as buyers were keen to bid with confidence from higher lamb values.

Bob Garnant

With the $9000 top-priced Moojepin ram, are Nutrien Livestock stud stock agent Mitchell Crosby, with buyer Dean Trotter, of Perillup Estate Pastoral Company in Mt Barker, Moojepin stud co-principals Hamish and Sherona Thompson, of Katanning, with their twin sons Angus and Oscar, 2.

Moojepin ram saleMoojepin Merinos tops at $9000

Securing the most structurally correct ram, Mt Barker woolgrower Dean Trotter paid the $9000 top price at the Thompson family’s Moojepin Merinos 23rd Annual Ram Sale.

Bob Garnant

Merinotech WA Poll is a leading dual-purpose nucleus flock that is forging ahead with science-based production parameters.

Merinotech updatesPremiumMerinotech WA Poll Open Day brings a crowd

Merinotech WA Poll, based at Marbellup in the Great Southern, was formed in 1988 by 110 commercial growers who wanted to exploit the latest technology and genetics into their breeding programs.

Bob Garnant

Murdoch University Associate Professor John Young.

Merinotech index updatePremiumEfficiency gains aimed at lifting fat deposition

Merinotech WA Poll stud, a leading science-based nucleus flock based on production per hectare, has made an updated index change to incorporate the benefits of whole-body energy.

Bob Garnant

Murdoch University Professor Graham Gardner.

MSA gradingPremiumEating quality aims to lift lamb to elite status

The expected roll out of a Meat Standards Australia lamb grading system aims to offer consumers more eating quality preference options with hopes producers will be paid for top tier specifications.

Bob Garnant

Albany Hwy was closed between Mitchell Street and Spencer Road due to the serious crash.

WA NEWSPremiumMan dies after hatchback hits truck towing sheep trailer

A man has died in a crash near Mt Barker after the hatchback he was driving collided with a sheep truck. 

Caleb Runciman

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development’s South Perth office.. Carwyn Monck

‘EXCITING REVITALISATION’ PremiumState Gov probes ‘exciting revitalisation’ of DPIRD site

What was once WA’s hive of agricultural research is now riddled with asbestos and will be empty within weeks as the State Government pushes ahead with plans to transform it into a new precinct in Kensington

Cally Dupe

Emergency services and officers from the Major Crash Investigation Section were on scene on Wednesday afternoon.

Albany AdvertiserPremiumHorror truck crash closes major highway in both directions

They say the detours may be in place for an extended period of time. 

Jacki Elezovich

Agora Livestock sheep value updates.

BEYOND THE SALEYARDSBeyond the Saleyards: Lamb and sheep supplies remain tight

WA lamb and sheep supplies are expected to remain tight and uneven in the short term, a supply issue that doesn’t usually happen during the spring flush period.

DEAN HUBBARD

Countryman editor Cally Dupe.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMENInternational Day of Rural Women: Countryman ed Cally Dupe

It’s a special industry and one where women can stand side-by-side with men and feel equal. 

Cally Dupe

Kojonup farmer Liz Heggaton.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMENPremiumInternational Day of Rural Women: Liz Heggaton

When Liz Heggaton lost her beloved husband Craig — a respected vet, sheep breeder and her partner in life and business — to suicide, her world was shattered.

Georgia Campion

Corrigin Farm Improvement Group communications officer Caitlyn Burling.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMENPremiumInternational Day of Rural Women: Caitlyn Burling

Meet Caitlyn Burling, a former agriculture journalist and communications officer with Corrigin Farm Improvement Group

Georgia Campion

Zarah Squiers, 19, of Quairading.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN PremiumInternational Day of Rural Women: Zarah Squiers

Growing up on the family farm, Zarah Squiers was never far from the action. 

Cally Dupe

Outgoing Geraldton councillor Jennifer Critch on her Tenindiwa property.

International Rural Women’s DayFarm life ‘not for everyone, but it is for me’

After 12 years of representing and championing her community through the council, Tenindewa farmer Jennifer Critch has stepped down from local government to devote more time to the family farm. 

Stuart Quinn

Queensland Senator Matt Canavan has slammed the dollar-for-dollar aspect of a live sheep export transition package grant program.

Package CriticismPremiumScrutiny falls on dollar-for-dollar export ban assistance

The dollar-for-dollar aspect of the $139 million live sheep export transition package has drawn the scrutiny and ire of opposition members and farmers who have labelled it “bulls..t”. 

Georgia Campion

Livestock and Rural Transport Association of WA chief executive Jan Cooper.

LIVE EXPORTPremiumLive export: Truckies frustrated by co-contribution, timing

WA’s trucking businesses bracing for the end of live sheep exports are “disappointed” they will have to cough up thousands in co-contributions get any financial help.

Cally Dupe

CBH Kwinana grain terminal.

International AttentionPremiumOpen Japanese union letter vows support amid CBH lockout

A Japanese unionist group has threatened to raise what it claims is “aggressive anti-union” action by CBH Group with the Japanese Government after the lockout of 130 workers in Kwinana. 

Georgia Campion

Eric Roulston — known by his loved ones as “Rollo” — was the pilot of a two-seater Cessna 150 that crashed in Ogilvie, about 100km north of Geraldton, on Friday last week.

Disaster and EmergencyPremiumDevastating cause of fatal WA plane crash revealed

Eric Roulston died in March, 17 years after his son died in similar circumstances.

Caleb Runciman

About 13 per cent of WA’s agricultural land is under foreign ownership.

Foreign InvestmentPremiumWA farmland remains hot property for foreign investors

WA has been revealed to have the third highest level of foreign-owned agricultural land in the country, in the latest data generated by the Australia Taxation Office.

Georgia Campion and Cally Dupe

Farmland in South Australia and NSW grew in value this year - but not the rest of the country. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

PropertyPremiumFarmland value in reverse as economy tightens

Australian farmland values are down 3.8 per cent in the first half of 2025 - the first dip in over a decade - but there are some causes for optimism.

Ben McKay

Sweeter Banana business manager Doriana Mangili.

B-A-N-A-N-A-SPremiumFears of banana pests amid Philippines import review

A proposal for the import of Filipino bananas into Australia has drawn fierce opposition from WA growers concerned about biosecurity risks.

Georgia Campion and Brandon Demura