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As Australia’s winter cropping season approaches, farmers are facing increasing uncertainty around the cost and availability of vital inputs: fertilisers and fuel. Professor Marit Kragt highlights in The Conversation  how fertiliser and fuel are essential inputs for winter crop production. Fuel underpins all farm management operations, including sowing, fertilising, disease management, liming, harvesting. Without nutrients from fertilisers, crops won’t reach their yield potential. Global...

Yet another large cohort of staff from the Centre for Agricultural Economics & Development (CAED) and the Centre for Environmental Economics & Policy (CEEP) travelled to Adelaide to participate in the 70th Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (11-13th Feb 2026). This year the event began with a Pre-Conference Early Career Day that featured contributions from A/Prof Michael Burton on getting published, Professor David Pannell on communicating...

The UWA Centre for Agricultural Economics and Development supports Australia’s transition to low-emission agriculture. One of our latest contributions is a scoping study led by Dr Sarah Whitnall , funded through the Zero Net Emissions Agriculture CRC (ZNE-Ag CRC) and supported by Prof Marit Kragt . The project examines the key challenge of integrating multiple novel technologies into farming businesses. While many technologies show strong potential for across emissions reduction,...