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Your Friday farmgate data (w/e 28 May)
Agriculture across the Flow family in southern Australia continues to watch the skies for rain and the north for mice as the two...
Rikki Lambert
May 27, 20216 min read


Farmers fear $1bn losses of NSW winter crops to mice
The New South Wales Farmers lobby group estimates the mouse plague will chew more than a billion dollars off the farmgate value of the...
Rikki Lambert
May 25, 20212 min read


British-Australian trade deal back on track
The UK's International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, says British farmers have nothing to fear from a free trade deal with Australia,...
Staff Writers
May 23, 20212 min read


Your Friday farmgate data (week ending 21 May)
It's a dry start to the season but the commodity prices are adjusting as usual to the situation. Farmers are wondering when the rains...
Rikki Lambert
May 20, 20217 min read


Trade backers scramble to soothe cranky British farmers
Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan has reassured his farmers efforts remain on foot to seal a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United...
Staff Writers
May 20, 20212 min read


UK farmers sound the alarm over the UK/Australia free trade agreement
A few weeks ago, trade minister Dan Tehan was announcing that signature of the UK/Australia free trade agreement was imminent. Now we are...
John McDonnell
May 19, 20212 min read


Aus-UK post-Brexit trade deal imminent
Australia's Trade Minister has told FlowNews24 Australia is closing in on a free trade agreement (FTA) by the end of June. FTAs reduce...
Rikki Lambert
May 18, 20213 min read


Victoria offers local grants to halt Qld fruit fly
Thursday's state budget will provide additional funding to Queensland fruit fly and protect horticultural production and jobs, the...
Rikki Lambert
May 18, 20212 min read


David Littleproud promotes carbon trading
At the beginning of March, the minister for agriculture, David Littleproud quietly announced the establishment of a $23.5 million...
John McDonnell
May 17, 20213 min read


Prepare to be dazzled by fields of gold
There'll be record amounts of canola fields painting the landscape bright yellow during Australia's winter cropping season, as farmers...
Rikki Lambert
May 16, 20212 min read


Your farmgate data for the week ending 14 May 2021
While canola has had its share of the limelight in recent weeks, Australian wheat began to lift off the back of rising corn prices and...
Rikki Lambert
May 13, 20219 min read


Victorian farm safety grant funding pool expands under huge demand
The Victorian government has expanded the funding for its farm safety grants program, with the Victorian Farmers Federation noting the...
Rikki Lambert
May 12, 20213 min read


NSW government takes the cheese, announcing $50 million mouse plague support
The NSW Opposition has told FlowNews24 on the Thursday morning of a snap mouse plague relief package that the state government had...
Rikki Lambert
May 12, 20213 min read


Budget bonus for farmers in special measures on soils
Squirrelled away in the budget portfolio papers for the department of agriculture in Tuesday night’s budget was an amount of $196.9...
John McDonnell
May 12, 20212 min read


Mouse plague concerns taken to NSW parliament as mice reach Riverina
NSW Farmers and the CWA have joined forces in calling for the State Government to implement a mouse plague financial support package,...
Rikki Lambert
May 10, 20214 min read


Your farmgate data for the week ending Friday 7 May 2021
A late start to the winter rains has farmers looking skywards but grain and canola prices are giving some farmers something to smile...
Rikki Lambert
May 6, 20218 min read


NSW Labor to throw more work at Agriculture Commissioner
The NSW Opposition has vowed an expanded role for the state's Agriculture Commissioner, committing to give the Commissioner increased...
Staff Writers
May 3, 20212 min read


Your farmgate data for the week ending 30 April
This week's positive news is for grain farmers with global and domestic prices improving for crops already in the silos and on their way...
Rikki Lambert
Apr 29, 20217 min read


Upstream farmers want Basin Plan delay as ministers meet, conservationists say 'stick to plan'
New South Wales and Victorian farmers are urging the federal and state water ministers meeting today to extend time or find new ways to...
Rikki Lambert
Apr 28, 20212 min read


Picking up the slack - the rise of the machines in agriculture
New autonomous robotic technology is just one of the latest developments to assist farmers in overcoming production costs or labour...
Rikki Lambert
Apr 27, 20212 min read
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