10:34 PM ACDT | Boulia Shire mayor in north-west Queensland says his community is celebrating this week's widespread, flooding rains - a huge boost in the previously drought-stricken cattle country.  | Comments (1) | Wet New Year a cause for ... | Flooding rains in north-west ...

10:36 PM ACDT | The gusto of the previous day’s Victorian weaner sales dropped off at the opening of the Birregurra, Vic, heifer sale on Tuesday. But in later sales, all classes of heifer weaners sold dearer, ranging from 165-175c/kg, and the lighter weights making a fraction more.  | Northern weaner cattle buyers ... | Vic's 70,000 calf bonanza to ... | VIDEO: Heavier Vic heifer weaners sell ...

10:47 PM ACDT | AWB has increased its 2008-09 Wheat Pool estimates, lifting the benchmark APW grade by $14 a tonne in the western pool and $17 a tonne in the eastern pool, on the back of a rise in international futures.  | Chicago wheat prices lift off ... | Smaller grain crop in 2009 likely

4:00 AM ACDT | FERTICO markets a range of organic-based fertiliser products from its Adelaide head office. Fertico services - through its network of distributors - farming clients throughout Victoria and South Australia.

8:55 AM ACDT | Data collected by the Bureau of Meteorology indicate that, overall, Australia’s annual mean temperature for 2008 was 0.41°C above the standard 1961-90 average, making it the nation’s 14th warmest year since comparable records began in 1910.