WA’s number of registered dairy farmers has slipped below 100 but are among the most efficient producers in Australia, new data shows.
Craig Duncan
The owners of Winderie Station are heading to trial after they were accused of rustling more than an estimated $100,000 worth of cattle from a nearby station.
Georgia Campion
South West dairy farmer Ian Noakes appointed to national board of Australian Dairy Farmers.
Cally Dupe
A new government joint project has been launched on World Soil Day with the goal of improving soil management and productivity along WA’s south coast.
Police have suspended the search for missing Woogenellup farmer Mark Adams pending any new information, after he failed to return from a fishing trip off Albany this week.
Jacki Elezovich
Spud king Tony Galati is spreading the reach of his Spudshed supermarkets, confirming some big news for two WA destinations.
Stuart Quinn
The Shire of Ravensthorpe is mourning the loss of deputy president Mark Mudie after he tragically died fighting a bushfire, with the community “devastated” by the loss of the beloved farmer and councillor.
Jacki Elezovich and Georgia Campion
Five students from WA’s agricultural colleges have been recognised for their outstanding skills in shearing and wool handling, receiving the WA Shearing Industry Association’s Neville Munns Scholarship awards.
Bob Garnant
A Queensland-based livestock operations manager has been celebrated by the industry as one of its brightest young stars and awarded the Young Achiever of the Year Award at LIVEXchange 2025.
Dozens of disappointed York residents have packed the front steps of WA Parliament to protest the approval of a controversial rubbish tip in York.
The identity of the Perth man accused of causing a fatal two-vehicle crash in Woodanilling that killed his 12-year-old passenger earlier this year has been revealed.
Hannah Whitehead
His 8m catamaran was found adrift near Michaelmas Island, more than 10km off the coast of Albany, on Tuesday night with no one on board.
Georgia Campion, Melissa Sheil, Cameron Newbold and Jacki Elezovich
The 2024-25 WA campdraft season is working through its extensive event calendar upon completion of the annual Boar Swamp Campdraft bringing 880 entries to the Blythewood arena.
One of WA’s major livestock processors V&V Walsh has released forward contracts of more than $10/kg for the supply of trade and supermarket lambs to its Bunbury abattoir over the Christmas and new year period.
Cattle producers from a broad representation of WA’s premium beef growing regions were eager to participate in the Gandy family’s Annual Angus Bull Sale.
A Manjimup-bred Angus bull sold to a top of $21,000 at the Gandy family’s Annual Bull Sale which led off as the first beef seedstock sale of the new season.
Australia’s biggest ruminant feedmill has opened in Perth, boosting demand for local farmers’ grain at a time when harvest totals are soaring.
WA Police report that the man’s family alerted authorities about 7.20pm on Tuesday after he did not return home.
Melissa Sheil
Australia’s biggest livestock export conference took place in Perth this month as industry leaders, exporters, producers and policymakers gathered at LIVEXchange 2025.
The spring’s processing data highlights a clear divergence across lamb, mutton, and cattle.
DEAN HUBBARD
Pilots Peter Ritter and Gavin U’Ren died after their helicopters collided mid-air last year.
Jessica Evensen
WA-based Rumin8 has acquired ROAM Agricultural, a spin-off of Loam Bio focused on the development of solutions for methane abatement in cattle.
WA’s bushfire season has sounded with a horrific start with one farmer killed and three others injured, and hectares of farmland across the State destroyed.
Digby Stretch knows he has big shoes to fill as the new president of the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA.
