More than 200 working sheep dogs and their handlers will take over the Northam in August to compete for the top honour at one of Australia’s largest sheep dog trials.
Georgia Campion
WA has entered the most shameful chapter of its biosecurity history with the State Government waving the flag on eradicating polyphagous shot-hole borer.
Lachlan Hunter
A newly-approved rare earths mine has drawn the ire of farmers, who say the US-backed miner and the state government have failed to property consult community.
Adrian Black
As the annual Country Women’s Association of WA State Conference reached its conclusion at the Albany Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, the Great Southern women behind the three-day event took centre stage.
Jacki Elezovich
WA farmers, researchers and agronomists are being invited to tour farms and research sites in Victoria and Tasmania to gain drought resilience, agtech and water-smart farming knowledge.
Melissa Pedelty
WA’s opposition and farming leaders have poked holes in the State Budget, labelling it one of “missed opportunity” that shows the regions continue to “bankroll vanity projects” in the city.
Cally Dupe and Josephine Hingst
A nearly $6 million legal stoush over a payment schedule dispute between West Australia’s biggest grain handler and a New South Wales-based railway infrastructure company will be battled out in Supreme Court.
Poles, pipes and ports were the main talking points of this year’s State Budget, with WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti unveiling a $10.3b pipeline of regional infrastructure investment.
Cally Dupe
Embattled Toodyay landholder Tony Maddox has vowed to take his cause to the High Court if his appeal against his conviction for breaching the Aboriginal Heritage Act in WA’s Supreme Court is unsuccessful.
Bega Cheese has launched a campaign to buy Fonterra’s Australian dairy division, in a move the cheese-making giant says would benefit farmers, customers and consumers alike.
The Shire of Cuballing held its biannual Winter Ball at the Cuballing Agricultural Hall on June 14 with this year’s ball themed around the glamour of 1923.
Hundreds of women gathered in Albany this week for the annual Country Women’s Association of WA State Conference, held at Albany Entertainment Centre from June 23 to 25.
A new WA State Government soil initiative to protect waterways in high rainfall zones and improve fertiliser use is seeking participants in South West and South Coast pasture growers.
Despite being the least confident group in the beef industry’s outlook, WA beef producers have expressed a growing sense of confidence in the latest Meat & Livestock Australia Beef Producer Intentions Survey.
Chapman Valley Football Club hosted their sixth annual ‘Big Freeze in the Valley’ fundraising event last weekend in what was a success as both clubs came together in a day bigger than footy.
Luke Lawson
Melbourne-based author Brad Collis, a former Albany journalist-turned novelist, has captured rural life in the Great Southern during the 1970s in The Cutters, a 277-page novel published in March.
Bob Garnant
Nationals WA leader Shane Love has paid his respects to “larger-than-life” party campaigner and Goldfields stalwart Nick Fardell, who died this month.
Carwyn Monck
The Grains Research and Development Corporation has clapped back at reports it has $1 billion sitting idle in Federal Treasury.
A number of bank-financed landholders might be involved in illegal landclearing, raising questions about lender exposure to risky nature destruction.
Poppy Johnston
A driver has died in a multi-vehicle crash after a road train, tow truck and car collided in Chittering.
Caleb Runciman
The scourge of anti-Semitism has spread as far as the remote corners of WA’s wheatbelt, with signs erected by a farmer in support of Israel defaced with obscenities and then stolen
Bethany Hiatt
A pan-genome has been specifically tailored for Australia chickpea varieties to improve desirable agronomic traits including yield, flowering time, acid soil tolerance, and drought tolerance.
The man killed in a horror crash after his truck rolled on Great Eastern Highway and burst into flames has been identified.
Caitlin Vinci
Members of Australia’s grains industry are calling for the cashed-up Grains Research Development Corporation to dedicate a portion of its funds to biosecurity purposes.
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