WA agriculture industry leaders are buoyed that the State Government is one step closer to fulfilling its election promise to buy back the State’s rail freight network.
Melissa Pedelty
A leading wool industry body is pushing to restore a vaccine developed to combat a contagious bacterial disease which costs the sheep industry $82.2 million a year.
Minister for agriculture among the attendees at the UWA Farm Ridgefield 2026 Open Day.
The WA farming real estate market is being influenced by corporate interests with a longer viewpoint on carbon credits and carbon offsets.
Bob Garnant
Solar solution experts are warning farmers to look into renewable energy systems before the Federal Government’s Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme expires in 2030.
A 63-year-old man has been accused of stealing dozens of sheep from a neighbouring property in the Geraldton district.
Kate Campbell
Modular housing demand has been “booming” amongst WA farmers looking to increase their capacity for farm workers, despite recent changes to slash immigration rates by the Federal Government.
Georgia Campion
Two of WA’s highest achievers in agriculture have been awarded prestigious Nuffield Australia scholarships to explore global solutions in their areas of interest.
A man who stole more than $38,000 worth of copper wire from multiple disused grain processing terminals in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt more than two years ago has had part of his jail sentence suspended.
Jacki Elezovich
More than 20 dairy and beef producers gathered for a day of education, innovation, networking and idea-sharing at the 2026 Farmwest Discovery.
New research to develop oat and oaten hay varieties aims to improve resistance to Septoria leaf blotch
Agricultural businesses have thrown their support behind a charity auction and are urging people to dig deep for a worthy cause.
Rebecca Nadge
Four young farmers are gearing up to compete at the Perth Royal Show in September after besting their peers in a regional skills competition in Dowerin.
WA agriculture industry experts are calling for better collaboration and funding to support sustainable agriculture.
WA has taken out the Ted Gaby Interstate Challenge teams’ event at Australia’s premier national working sheepdog trial.
WA producers have become increasingly focused on margins in the wake of ongoing geopolitical uncertainty but there remains significant on-farm investment, says Commbank’s head of agribusiness.
A WA meteorologist has addressed frustrations with the Bureau of Meteorology over inaccurate forecasts, saying that predicting the weather and rainfall is a complex science.
A company that supplies agricultural drones in WA has reported significant increases in sales, with producers responding to uncertainty around fuel and a need to bait during the mouse plague.
WA farmers presenting at a net zero forum say adoption of carbon reduction activities on farms would increase if productivity gains were proved.
Australian farmers are calling for stricter safeguard mechanism rules so big polluters are forced to reduce emissions at the source.
WA’s biggest farming field day has celebrated another year with thousands gathering in the small town of Dowerin.
Australia’s leading grains research organisation is investing $7.4 million in a new online platform intended to be the one-stop shop for decades worth of soils research and knowledge.
Australia’s leading voice for wool has applauded Australian Wool Testing Authority’s creation of a new system which could change the way wool brokers and merchants market and sell Australian wool
One of Australia’s largest privately owned cattle producers with significant landholdings in WA is eager for the new livestock method carbon credit scheme to be released as soon as possible.
