Belinda Varischetti

Market dynamics are stopping live export ships from coming to WA for the rest of the year, raising the prospect of an official end to the trade years before a legislated ban is enforced.

Sheep producers have slammed a leaked "confidential" document containing draft plans of the Albanese government's multi-million-dollar support package for farmers affected by the live export ban.

Wool Producers Australia believes Australian Wool Innovation is spending too much grower money on marketing wool and not enough on research and development.

A consignment of 4,000 cattle expected to undertake a 33-day journey to markets in Israel has been waiting four weeks for permission to leave Australia. 

A federal inquiry into the government's plan to ban the live export of sheep from Western Australia backs the bill in its initial report handed down on Friday and calls for more funding for the industry. 

West Australian canola growers have been refunded more than $600,000 from a seed company after successfully arguing their consumer rights had been breached by widespread pre-harvest crop deaths.

Millions of dollars in financial and mental health support will be made available to West Australian farmers next month as drought conditions cause dams to dry up and feedstock to dwindle.

Questions are being asked about what will happen to thousands of sheep and cattle on the live export ship MV Bahijah, which was turned around due to the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East.

Mugarinya Community Association’s $50,000 fine for animal welfare breaches “does not reflect the community standards and expectations put on the agricultural industry”, claims feedlot operator Paul Brown.

John Snooke says the Pacific Seeds’ “garrison” canola variety’s underperformance has cost him more than $70,000, but the company will not pay compensation.