When Kent Egerton-Warburton started writing software in the early 1980s, little did he know that the language he was using was far more readily understood in the bush than the BASIC code he used.
Specialist labs, glasshouses and an emergency management operational centre will be built at Murdoch University, courtesy of $320 million in state government funding.
Development of a cotton gin in northern WA is set to proceed after ASX company Namoi Cotton, NSW wheat grower Ron Greentree and the federal government backed the project.
Safe Work Australia has reported a decline in workplace fatalities across the country, but highlighted road transport and farming as by far the most dangerous sectors to work in.
Australian grain export giant CBH Group has purchased a 105 hectare site at Avon Industrial Park to support the company's goal to double total monthly export capacity.
Lovegrove Turf Farm’s founders are selling 15ha of land in Wattle Grove worth more than $20 million, after years of interest from some of the country’s largest developers.
Australia's largest grain exporter has announced a $4 billion commitment in its network infrastructure and assets, to be invested over the next 10 years.
The work safety regulator has confirmed it is investigating the death of a farmhand at a property near Collie, the fourth work-related fatality in less than a fortnight.
Milne Agrigroup posted a profit fall in the middle of the pandemic’s two-year crisis, showing a change in the sales mix to chilled and frozen meat and away from animal feed during that 2021 financial year.
Aquaculture company Seafarms Group has rejected media reports it was considering selling its business, amid uncertainty surrounding the viability of its prawn farm in northern Australia.
Rain over much of the grain belt last week means crop production is on track for a near-record year, according to the Grain Industry Association of Western Australia.
National Farmers' Federation boss Tony Mahar says state and federal governments are not doing enough to alleviate staffing shortages, leaving the industry searching for 150,000 workers.