After a drawn out couple of weeks Deputy Prime Minister, National Party leader and former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce has decided to step aside. We hear from WA's two farm lobby groups to get their reaction to the news, today nine Western Australian Ag tech companies found out they have been selected to participate in an accelerator program, the higher education sector has welcomed a proposal to set up a national inquiry into TAFEs, private colleges and universities, the Farm Machinery and Industry Association of WA outlines plans to create a centre of excellence at Muresk Institute, a mining company is hoping to resurrect a graphite mine on WA's south coast, which was last in production in world war two and the wool market came back to life this week.