Growers and researchers in the driest inhabited continent have dramatically increased crop yields through new agricultural techniques, despite intensifying environmental challenges. Innovations in ...

A large Australian wheat crop would add to pressure on prices that are already low due to ample global supply.

A quartet of researchers with CSIRO Agriculture & Food in Australia has found via simulations that planting novel wheat genotypes using deep sowing could increase yields. In their paper published ...

LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - Argentina's Bioceres Crop Solutions plans to carry out field tests of its genetically modified drought resistant wheat in Australia and seek planting approvals next ...

SINGAPORE/SYDNEY, April 25 (Reuters) - Australian farmers kicked off this year's wheat planting season on Anzac Day in bone-dry soil conditions as a third consecutive year of drought across the ...

Tuerong Farm is one of few bakeries that makes its products using grain that’s grown and milled right there. This family farm surrounded by wheat fields has become a leader in Australia’s baking ...

They aren’t the first countries to do this, as Argentina and Brazil also have approved imports of genetically modified wheat flour. Yet the decision by Australia and New Zealand marks a milestone.

Australia’s first wheat was sown in Sydney soon after the First Fleet arrived. Colonists had brought different grain varieties, and a small 9-acre farm was established at Farm Cove on the site of the ...

Locally, Australian wheat cash prices hover at around $325 a tonne with domestic demand helping keeping them above ...

As a drought ravages crops in Australia, normally the biggest wheat exporter in the Southern Hemisphere, the country is preparing to make a rare purchase of Canadian grain.

Southeast Asian nations are set to reshape global grains and oilseed trade flows through U.S. trade deals that include ...