Miners moaning about excessive royalty payments is nothing new in WA. But maybe the State’s crop of aspiring sulphate of potash producers have a point.
Stuart McKinnon
The McGowan Government has missed an opportunity to encourage an emerging local fertiliser industry in regional Western Australia.
Steve Martin
Grain growers on the Narrogin to Kulin Tier 3 rail line will have welcomed the recent announcement by WA Transport Minister Rita Saffioti of the funding allocation of $72 million to rebuild this rail line.
Noel Bairstow
As members of the agricultural industry, WAFarmers acknowledge the Federal and State Governments allocation of $72m to begin to rebuild for of our old Tier 3 rail network.
John Hassell
We need to restore the receival standards for ANW2 to those that applied up to 2010-11 to shore up the future of the noodle wheat industry, writes Graham Crosbie.
Graham Crosbie
In a scathing column written for The West Australian, Bill Shorten has laid the blame for Activ shutting up shop at the feet of the Morrison Government and its cuts to the NDIS.
Bill Shorten
Australia will miss out on more than one billion dollars of export income this year because of the State’s lagging grain on rail system and farmers are calling for change.
Bob Iffla and Trevor De Landgrafft
It seems a far-fetched notion that the State’s Tier 3 campaigners should get some clarity from somebody — anybody — as to whether the closed grain lines are ever going to reopen, or not.
Cally Dupe
Will Picker was mustering when his bike hit a wombat hole, throwing him off and injuring his back. He had no mobile service and could not call for help. This is his story.
Will Picker
Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud is right in his aim to concentrate all the existing wool bodies into one organisation.
Murray Ellis, Wannamal farmer
The Boyanup Saleyards need a dramatic overhaul, according to a South West cattle vet.
Dr Don Finlay
Tears were shed and raw emotion boiled over at a meeting of timber businesses in Manjimup last month.
Farmers in WA and around Australia are no doubt concerned about skyrocketing fertiliser prices due to surging energy costs and export restrictions on suppliers.
Matt Shackleton
It should not be underestimated what a tangible difference the State Government’s new caps on regional airfares will make to the lives of those living in rural and remote areas.
I assume as I got sick first that I gave it to everyone and I feel terrible about it. How do I make it up to them?
Jay Hanna
Farmer advocacy is declining simply because only a few farmers are prepared to oversee their best interests both at a national and State level.
Ray Marshall, Pingelly farmer
Regional power cuts have been a hot topic in recent weeks, for good reason, writes Martin Aldridge.
Martin Aldridge
Millionaire businessman Nev Power may have dodged prison for his refusal to obey COVID rules but the wings have been clipped on his lucrative board career.
Sarah-Jane Tasker
In this new world where nothing seems the same, the Wagin Woolorama was one thing we could look forward to.
Peter Rundle
Looking through the headlines of the rural press during the last few months portrays an interesting picture for rural WA, with bin-bursting yields and record deliveries of grain to CBH Group.
Jane Fuchsbichler
Commonwealth backing needed for moves to cut growers’ costs
Barry Large
Henry Ford once said: “the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing”.
Companies and businesses that don’t contribute to the task of putting food on the plates of the world’s 7.9 billion people are buying up prime WA farmland to plant trees.
The Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA, WA Grains Group and WAFarmers are calling for CBH Group to speed up grain exports to capitalise on prices.
Doug Smith, Gary McGill, Mic Fels
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