Grain Deal Losers Weigh Challenge

GRAIN traders furious with the Howard Government may challenge a decision locking them out of the export wheat market.

Rebuffed Rival Ready To Swoop

ALTHOUGH AWB has plenty of rivals across the nation - including international grain traders Cargill, Glencore and Louis Dreyfus and Australia's ABB Grain and GrainCorp - none has been as proactive as West Australian handler CBH.

Wheat Board Warns On Reforms

The Australian Wheat Board has warned growers and the Federal Government that the pace of port and rail reforms may slow if it loses its status as Australia's only wheat exporter. At a press briefing yesterday to counter a campaign by foreign grain traders to end its export monopoly, the board sa

Push To Break Wheat Monopoly

Eight multinational grain traders have joined forces to break the Australian Wheat Board's monopoly of the $2billion export wheat market. The companies include some of the world's biggest international commodity traders, including ConAgra, Louis Dreyfus, Cargill and Continental Grains. Under t

Traders Seek Deregulation Of Wheat Exports

A newly formed group of private grain traders have launched a push to deregulate the $2 billion export wheat market. The Australian Wheat Board, a statutory authority, holds single desk selling status over the export market. The domestic market was deregulated under the Wheat Marketing Ac

Neutral Bay Office Block Going For $5.5m

Dominion Investments, a company owned by Pacific Grain Traders, is rationalising its property portfolio by dumping a four-storey office building in Neutral Bay in favour of upgrading to a larger property. The building - 12 Waters Road - changed hands for $260,000 in January 1980 and then

Aust Loses $2m Wheat Sale To Nz

Australia has lost $2 million worth of wheat sales to New Zealand following the failure of the Australian Wheat Board to urgently find sufficient trans-Tasman shipping space to supply the order. United States grain traders have filled the 9,000-tonne order with non-subsidised grain which,

Us Begins Sale Of Subsidised Wheat To China

WASHINGTON, Thursday: The United States has begun the sale of subsidised wheat to China, one of Australia's key export markets. US grain traders have sold 150,000 metric tons of wheat to China, the US Agriculture Department announced yesterday. The department estimates that China's i