Agricultural Prices

A popular family-owned farm is closing to the public and is on the market, with weather extremes, staffing challenges, and the increasing costs of production, insurance, and compliance as the reasons behind the closure.

Indonesia has finally issued import permits for Australian cattle with the first ship now on the water bound for Jakarta.

Producers say ideal conditions have led to a 50 per cent increase in yields this season amid hopes the tariffs on Australian wine to China could be lifted as early as March. 

Tasmania's Van Dairy will send about 10 per cent of its herd to slaughter after losing its milk supply contract with Fonterra this month.

Barley exports to China are booming after tariffs were lifted in August, but are Australian farmers just repeating the same mistake?

Bright yellow with blemish-free skin, bananas at major supermarkets tend to look "perfect", but will a push to sell produce affected by recent tropical cyclones in North Queensland shatter this widespread consumer ideology?

David Littleproud says farmers are vulnerable to supermarket exploitation since they trade perishable goods.

Farmers consider running the gauntlet and leaving machinery uninsured as premiums go through the roof, with insurers blaming erratic weather, inflation, and increasing costs for the price hikes.

Australian wine exports have been hit by a global trend in people drinking less alcohol and cutting costs, but hope remains for the re-opening of a major market.

While the inquiry will put Coles and Woolworths in the spotlight, producers in the Gascoyne and Kimberley regions say other factors deserve close examination too.

Shoppers have seen the price of local fruit and veg skyrocket, but canned produce remains relatively cheap. One expert says there are several worrying reasons for this. 

Some Australian producers turn their backs on the major supermarkets because of what they say are unfair prices at the farm gate.

Ports operator DP World tells a Senate Estimates hearing nearly 55,000 containers filled with consumer goods and farm exports are stuck on the docks due to union stop-work action, as stakeholders call for federal government intervention.

Former Labor minister Craig Emerson says the review may recommend making the supermarket code of conduct mandatory.

Grocery prices rose and major supermarkets made billion-dollar profits last year, but Bundaberg farmer Trevor Cross fears rock-bottom produce prices will force him to leave the industry he loves — and there are many others like him.

The improvement in the results is mostly due to increased livestock prices and solid grain yields across the state, Rabobank says.

Many shoppers are questioning whether supermarket prices are fair, and so next year the Senate will examine claims of price gouging by Coles and Woolworths.

The dry spring caused by El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole climate patterns is expected to result in a $16 billion fall in the value of agriculture this financial year.

Do you know where your milk comes from? If you're in Queensland there's half a chance it's travelled through NSW and Victoria, possibly from a dairy up to 2,000 kilometres away.

Prices for some cattle have doubled as buyer confidence is restored following rainfall for many areas that have endured a long dry spell.

Meat and Livestock Australia says the number of goats slaughtered in Australia has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2022 as China's appetite for the product continues to grow.

A heavy downpour across southern Australia has coincided with the peak of the busy grain harvest season, throwing farmers' plans into disarray.

Cattle producers spent most of 2023 reading stories about El Niño, which seems to have affected market confidence.

Robbie Radel's voice breaks as he describes his dread of the week ahead — having to watch the last of his beloved milkers being trucked away from the farm his family has owned since 1906.

It takes two weeks for these Aussie mangoes to go from a farm to a US supermarket shelf. But for Manbulloo Mangoes it's been worth it.