Agricultural Crops

The ABARES report for the June quarter predicts national crop production will fall by more than 20 per cent, with profits down 70 per cent for broadacre farms. 

An outback Queensland council grows sorghum in a bid to create new income streams, reduce pressure on ratepayers, and support jobs in the region. 

Endeavour Group, which owns Dan Murphy's and BWS, announces it will step away from some key vineyards and wineries in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, and close a major South Australian bottling plant.

A war thousands of kilometres away from Australia's farms is quietly reshaping what crops are planted and what will be available at supermarkets in the future.

In Queensland cattle country, an outback council is generating extra revenue by growing crops on common land.

A growing number of producers are experimenting with growing agave and potential for the succulent goes far beyond spirits.

Australia's emerging agave industry is attracting interest from distillers, farmers and scientists who believe the spiky plant could transform everything from tequila production to sustainable aviation fuel.

Farmers in the Riverland and Mallee are cautiously optimistic as new growth emerges from the paddock following "meaningful rain".

Global Resource Recovery NT says production of the  first diesel made from Central Australian gas condensate will leave Darwin in July. 

Global investment firms backed by some of the biggest companies in the world are pouring money into acquiring carbon-saving "natural capital assets". 

In an Australian first, two South Australian wine grape growers are trialling an ancient variety from Cyprus that is reducing water consumption and reconnecting them to their Mediterranean roots.

The men died in a vehicle crash near Manjimup in the state's South West.

Fruit and vegetable growers in Western Australia’s Carnarvon food bowl are still cleaning up weeks after flooding from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle.  Their farms have been inundated numerous times since a levee system was built over a decade ago, and they’re questioning if it so doing more harm than good.

In Western Australia's biggest food bowl region, farmers are still assessing the damage from the latest flood caused by Cyclone Narelle. However, farmers say the levees built to reduce damage made the situation worse.

Water users in part of the Murray-Darling Basin are anxious that a proposal to protect their interests during droughts has been abandoned, as the dry conditions continue to worsen.

Multiple locust swarms in South Australia's Riverland region have put farmers and authorities on alert, prompting the South Australian Plague Locust Commissioner to send surveying teams to the region.

Growers across Western Australia's Gascoyne take a huge financial hit after four natural disasters in the first four months of 2026.

After moving to Kenya 15 years ago Aussie farmer Stuart Barden's dream has become reality. The 55-year-old is helping change the face of the country's cropping industry. 

A massive crude oil tanker laden with diesel has docked in the Port of Newcastle to replenish regional New South Wales supplies, as the Middle East unrest continues.

The Middle East conflict has disrupted the flow of Australia's imports of the fertiliser urea. Facing the potential threat of reduced crop yields, Anthony Albanese looked to Australia's neighbours.