Education and cultural change, not over-regulation, are the keys to improving farm safety says a Nuffield Scholar who studied the topic.

The longest grain train in the history of the ARTC network was loaded at Crystal Brook this week, the wheat bound for the drought stricken north.

It's been a decade since the deregulation of the wheat market. Over the next few weeks Fairfax Ag Media will look at the implications.

The grim start to the season in the north continues, while the south has had some relief with falls of 30mm in the past week.

Don't want any further bad news about the 2018 cropping season? Look away now, the odds of an El Nino are firming.

GrainCorp is set to open an office in Ukraine.

Historical ties with the US should not be enough for the Aussie government to back trade action against China that could jeopardise exports.

IT IS hard to compete with the big bucks being offered for feed grain locally, but China continued to buy up barley through March and April.

FARMERS will now have the opportunity to market grain stored on-farm through the Clear Grain Exchange.

Farmers will flock to lower risk cereal crops this year following a dry start to the winter cropping season according to ABARES.