Ten companies are currently due to list on the Australian Securities Exchange in July, with junior resource companies making up the bulk of new entrants to the market.

Rice is the staple food of more than half of the world’s population. Yet a global supply shortage this year has caused prices to surge, and sparked fears of drastic food shortages in the world’s poorest nations.

Australian wool growers are waiting with baited breath as minister for trade Simon Crean attempts to kick-start stalled free-trade negotiations with China.

An ABARE report claims that the Australian economy would be bolstered by over $900 million a year if farmers were to gradually take up genetically modified strains of oilseeds and wheat by 2018.

A quarterly survey of 1200 farmers from around Australia has registered growing confidence in the rural sector.

Australia’s wheat growers look set to produce a bumper 2008-2009 crop, according to commodities forecasters.

Australia’s $4.9 billion annual export beef industry could be about to take a hit from American beef exporters as a result of Korea easing restrictions on US beef. Lee Jenson reports.

Microalgae have the potential to become a major source for biofuel, and an international group of experts have formed the Solar Bio-Fuel Consortium in order to drive forward research in the highly competitive area. Fiona Collins reports.

Australian beef exports to a number of markets in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East have jumped in the wake of ongoing farmers strikes in Argentina.

Experts claim that the world has just over 40 years of oil reserves left – a frightening assertion in an increasingly fuel-driven society. Fiona Collins reports one solution may be growing on waste land nearby.

In a small corner of the Queensland University of Technology campus, a group of scientists is working on a bio-ethanol fuel project of such significance that it could have a profound effect on the world’s sugarcane industry.

A lot of people love a good steak, but finding a product of consistent quality can be a challenge. Branded beef products are now taking premium chunks of the domestic and export market, as Lee Jenson reports.