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Grain consortium lobbying hard for Australia’s biggest wheat exporter

By Cecile Lefort, Colin Packham March 4, 2016

Sydney/Reuters – A consortium seeking to buy Australia’s biggest wheat exporter, Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd (CBH), is stepping up lobbying for its offer amid concerns the deal may be snubbed and reports of a rival Chinese bidder. The Australian Grains Champion (AGC), which includes farmers and some former directors of CBH, wants to acquire and list […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Australia to hike tax on ‘backpacker’ workers

By Colin Packham February 26, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — Australia is set to increase taxes on foreign travellers who work in the country, raising concerns from farmers that their supply of “backpacker labour” at harvest times may dry up and undermine Australia’s ambitions of being Asia’s delicatessen. Australian fruit exports are set to hit a record A$2.27 billion (C$2.19 billion) […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Australia set to legalize cultivation of medical cannabis

By Colin Packham February 10, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — Australia is expected to legalize the cultivation of cannabis for medical or scientific purposes with a bill introduced to parliament on Wednesday — the first step toward doctors eventually prescribing it to patients with chronic pain. The bill will see Australia create a national licensing and permit scheme to supply medical […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Weather

Major investment to build Farmers Edge’s data power

By Dave Bedard January 27, 2016

Canadian precision agronomy and farm data management firm Farmers Edge plans to keep taking its services to previously underserved acres around the world, with a major cash infusion from a group of its backers. Japanese commodities trading and investment firm Mitsui, Toronto commercial real estate company Osmington and the Green Growth Fund operated by investment […] Read more

Australia’s Treasurer Scott Morrison, shown here earlier this year, has blocked the sale of S. Kidman’s farmland holdings to overseas bidders. (ScottMorrison.com.au)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Australia blocks foreign firm’s deal for largest farm owner

By Colin Packham, Lincoln Feast November 19, 2015

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia on Thursday blocked the sale of the country’s largest landowner, private farming group S. Kidman and Co., to foreign investors, saying an agricultural area the size of South Korea should remain in Australian hands. Ownership of farmland is a sensitive political issue in Australia amid concerns that foreign buyers are […] Read more

Beef Cattle, News Roundup

Australia raises beef export forecast by 20 per cent

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff November 4, 2015

In mid-September Reuters reported that Australia raised its forecast for beef exports by 20 per cent as drought conditions worsened by an El Niño weather pattern forced farmers in the world’s third-largest exporter to maintain near-record slaughter rates. Beef exports are expected to total 1.225 million tonnes in the crop year to July 1, 2016, […] Read more

Wheat under irrigation on Ravenshoe Station near Hay, New South Wales. (Arthur Mostead photo courtesy Murray Darling Basin Authority/MDBA.gov.au)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

By Colin Packham September 20, 2015

Sydney | Reuters — A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world’s driest inhabited continent is facing its first real test as an intensifying El Nino threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists. The three-year old management plan for the Murray-Darling basin, an area twice the size of […] Read more

Australia’s ABARES agency now expects the country’s meat producers to export 20 per cent more beef this year than the agency forecast in June. (BeefAndLamb.com.au)

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Australia lifts beef export forecast as El Nino bites

By Colin Packham September 14, 2015

Sydney | Reuters — Australia raised its forecast for beef exports by 20 per cent on Tuesday as drought conditions worsened by an El Nino weather pattern force farmers in the world’s third-largest exporter to maintain near-record slaughter rates. Beef exports are expected to total 1.225 million tonnes in the crop year to July 1, […] Read more

Crops, Markets

‘Megatrends’ expected to move ag sector in future

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 28, 2015

CNS Canada — Health-conscious customers with money to spend will be looking to purchase more food over the next 20 years, while changing technologies and global economic uncertainty will bring their own challenges. That’s the outlook in a recent report out of Australia, highlighting five megatrends expected to impact the agricultural sector in the coming […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb as China fears wane

By Julie Ingwersen August 27, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– Benchmark U.S. soybean futures rose 1.5 per cent on Thursday as equity markets stabilized in China, the world’s top soy buyer, and on outlooks for dry weather as the U.S. Midwest growing season winds down, traders said. Corn clung to modest gains on better-than-expected weekly U.S. export sales and spillover strength […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slide on human screwworm case report

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as hopes for Chinese demand wane; corn, wheat firm

Alberta Crop Report: Two sides of the same weather coin

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slide on human screwworm case report

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as hopes for Chinese demand wane; corn, wheat firm

Alberta Crop Report: Two sides of the same weather coin

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Grain consortium lobbying hard for Australia’s biggest wheat exporter

Australia to hike tax on ‘backpacker’ workers

Australia set to legalize cultivation of medical cannabis

Major investment to build Farmers Edge’s data power

Australia blocks foreign firm’s deal for largest farm owner

Australia raises beef export forecast by 20 per cent

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

Australia lifts beef export forecast as El Nino bites

‘Megatrends’ expected to move ag sector in future

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb as China fears wane

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