WHEN you pick up supplies at your local supermarket for tonight’s dinner, the produce will likely have come from many parts of Australia and from distant parts of the world. But some of the fresh produce...

INDIKA Fernando is assessing thousands of bananas as part of his PhD research into avoiding damage to the fruit on its supply chain journey. In 2017, Indika followed 30,000 bananas across three key supply...

Coles will remove plastic wrapping from its bananas and other fresh produce as part of a wide-ranging series of commitments to reduce food waste, landfill and plastic packaging over the next four years. Announcing...

The dairy cattle farming industry should bounce back tin 2018 says market research firm IBISWorld. Following a year of low prices and depressed milk production, IBISWorld said conditions have begun to...

Two Australian farmers have ventured into growing the native Ethiopian grain, teff, in an attempt to diversify their crops and establish an innovative revenue stream. Teff is a gluten-free wholegrain that...

Serve weather has taken its toll on Australia’s 2017 macadamia crop. The 2017 crop forecast has now been revised down to 47, 000 tonnes in-shell, approximately 10 per cent lower than originally expecting....

A new online tool has launched to help guide Australian farmers on how to start a co-operative. The tool is operated by the Australian Federal Government’s Farming Together resource for primary producers....

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has put Australian produce growers and sellers on notice, warning they need to be ready to comply with changes to the mandatory Horticulture Code...

Australian farmers are growing more fruit and nuts tells the latest data released from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Findings from the ABS’ 2015-16 Agricultural Census found that production...

Australian agriculture entrepreneurs are being offered the opportunity each to receive $40, 000 in start-up capital to help launch a new business idea. Offered by the SproutX Accelerator program, successful...