This Month
Treasury Wines wrestles $4b China problem
The Penfolds producer had a partial recovery in its share price as some investors bet that all the bad news on China had already been factored in.
- Simon Evans
Treasury Wine China sales rebound but trade war casts doubt
CEO Tim Ford says the group will just have to 'deal with the cards that are dealt to us' on China tariffs, but a Penfolds demerger is on ice.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
Shareholders knock the stuffing out of Inghams board
Poultry producer Inghams suffer big first strike on remuneration report as share price takes flight.
- Brad Thompson
Farmers fight back at China, which risks shooting itself in the foot
Australia is preparing a World Trade Organisation case as grain traders warn a Chinese state-owned giant will be the biggest loser from any move against wheat.
- Brad Thompson
China push for retrospective wine tariffs puts heat on Treasury Wines
The China Alcoholic Drinks Association wants Chinese authorities to apply retrospective tariffs to Australian wine imports in the anti-dumping investigation.
- Simon Evans, Peter Ker and Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- China relations
Australia's harsh new reality of trading with China
Threats, tariffs and amped-up customs checks – the campaign of economic coercion by Australia's biggest trading partner is only going to escalate.
- Michael Smith
October
Australia's cattle kings and queens on top of the world
Cattle prices are at record highs, adding to the fortunes of the Rich Listers who control vast tracts of land in rural Australia.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson
Australia's wine exports rebound in rush to beat China tariffs
Strong sales to China and the UK in the past three months reversed a downward trend, but the spectre of punishing China tariffs looms.
- Simon Evans
Battered Nufarm's distant light at the end of the tunnel
Australia's global crop protection player has a big job ahead of it to restore its balance sheet and turn around its struggling European business.
- Brad Thompson
Jacob's Creek owner Pernod Ricard uncorks big storage battery
An in-built forecasting system tracking the weather three days ahead is part of a new thermal energy storage battery as the wine group goes green.
- Simon Evans
Harvest heaven as drought gives way to bumper crops
Australia is back in the grain export game as farmers emerge from drought to produce one of the nation's best crops on record.
- Brad Thompson
Forrest-backed green cattle company in super seaweed first
FutureFeed, part owned by Andrew Forrest, Woolworths and GrainCorp, has sold the first licence to grow and produce a seaweed additive that reduces greenhouse gas emissions from cattle.
- Brad Thompson
Jan Cameron along for the ride in Seafarms' huge prawn project
The ASX-listed group aims for a $150m debt package by the end of 2020 for the first stage of what would be the world's largest prawn farm in the NT.
- Simon Evans
Dairy co-op delivers record price to farmers
Norco has delivered a record milk price to its 300-plus farmer members in the year after supermarket giants gave up their $1-a-litre pricing policies.
- Brad Thompson
Fonterra sells China Farms for $514m
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has sold its China Farms business for $NZ555 million ($514 million) to pay down debt and focus on domestic producers.
- Updated
- James Fernyhough
Select Harvests readies $120m raising to buy almond farms
Australia's largest almond grower and processor is about to get that little bit larger.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
September
A2 insiders picked good time to sell
With the company heavily reliant on the daigou market, sales by A2 Milk insiders late last month turned out to be rather prudent.
- Myriam Robin
A family, an airport, and a very, very expensive paddock
The Perich dairy farmers have had a long, troubled and profitable relationship with Western Sydney Airport.
- Aaron Patrick
US wildfires taint west coast vineyards with taste of smoke
The wildfires are likely to be "without question the single worst disaster the wine-grape growing community has ever faced,” said John Aguirre, president of the growers' group.
- Andrew Selsky
Top farmer says wharfies are 'screwing the country'
As containers pile up at Port Botany, leading agricultural exporter Roger Fletcher says customers are going without while chilled meat is left languishing.
- Brad Thompson
