Farming and Environment
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Preparing your sheep for joining
ELDERS livestock production specialist Emma Shattock provides some timely top tips, strategies and targets on preparing ewes and rams for joining. She said pre-joining ewe…
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Making hay when the sun shines – too much
LOW rainfall in winter and spring in many districts across northwest Victoria, and in the southern Mallee, has made it harder to produce good quality…
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Wannabe farmer snaps a winning moment
MARCUS Muller was a builder who for a few years now has been working hard to build himself a new career – on the land.…
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Harvest bogged down in disappointment
HE’S not classifying it as a disaster, but Quambatook graingrower Brett Hosking said after almost a year’s rainfall in six weeks – and at the…
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Water solutions workshopped
MURRAY region stakeholders have said they feel like concerns had been listened to by Murray-Darling Basin Plan decision makers at a recent workshop. The Murray…
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Farmers to keep speaking out against project
FARMERS in Lalbert say they feel ignored after the Victorian Minister for Planning’s approval of VHM’s Goschen Rare Earth and Mineral Sands Project. Lalbert grain…
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Green light for Goschen Rare Earth and Mineral Sands project
SIX months after the Victorian Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny received the Inquiry and Advisory Committee’s report, she has found that the Goschen Rare Earth…
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MLA says meat is safe
THE growing global controversy surrounding feed additive Bovaer has prompted Meat & Livestock Australia managing director Michael Crowley to publicly step into the debate. Growing…
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Focus on learning droughts lessons
A SMALL army of the scientists and researchers who will help drive the agricultural future of the Mallee brought a focus on drought when they…
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New shell caters to pistachio growth
AUSTRALIA’S emerging pistachio industry has taken a quantum leap this week at Bannerton, 8km south of Robinvale, with the official unveiling of the Australian Pioneer…
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