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Farming and Environment
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Duck harvest numbers surge

FAVOURABLE environmental and breeding conditions and more active hunters likely resulted in an increase in the number of ducks harvested last year, according to the game management regulator. Game Management Authority on Tuesday released the...

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Hosking takes top job at VFF

QUAMBATOOK mixed farmer and industry leader Brett Hosking is the new president of the Victorian Farmers Federation while Peter Star – who has been the VFF Livestock vice-president since 2022 – has been elected as deputy. The current...

21 Jan 2025
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Mature fleabane control a focus at BCG Trials Review Day

MATURE fleabane will go under the industry microscope at the Birchip Cropping Group early next year. The peak research group will stage a trial review day on Friday, February 21, at the Birchip Community Leisure Centre. When BCG research agronomist...

03 Jan 2025
Farming and Environment

Mallee ram sales shine in 2024

ELDERS Victoria/Riverina stud stock manager Ross Milne is upbeat about the 2025 ram selling market after Mallee studs outperformed during the 2024 spring ram sale season. He said the industry “has been in its ram selling season since...

02 Jan 2025
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Experts chuffed about chaff research

CONCERNS chaff lines generated by harvest weed seed control programs might increase the risk of crop damage from pests have been allayed through new research. Researchers investigated the diversity of invertebrate populations in southern region...

02 Jan 2025
Farming and Environment

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 hay this season. However, once it has been made it’s important to store it to minimise yield and...

01 Jan 2025
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Exciting times ahead for almond industry

By Almond Board of Australia chief executive Tim JacksonA DELEGATION from the Almond Board of Australia attended the annual California Almond Conference in Sacramento, California, last week. As the industry emerges from three years of pricing which...

01 Jan 2025
Farming and Environment

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. And he’s made that a spectacularly public statement with his amazing photo of his son Logan sitting on the fence of sheep yards...

01 Jan 2025
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Nationals condemn soaring fire services levy

TREASURER Tim Pallas’ announcement of significant increases in the emergency services and volunteers fund (ESVF) have been condemned by the opposition parties as a blatant tax grab. Last week Mr Pallas said from July 1 next year the ESVF would...

31 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

Spray warnings - get the drift

GRAIN Producers Australia is urging growers to be alert, vigilant and proactive, to maintain high standards for pesticide application, and protect crops from spray drift damage. GPA’s timely warning comes after Cotton Australia recently raised...

30 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

Levees to optimise environmental flows

WORK will soon begin to help revitalise the state’s most iconic river red gum woodlands, after the NSW Government awarded a contract to build water infrastructure to optimise environmental flows in the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest. The $3.3 million...

24 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

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 wrong end of the season – this year’s harvest will be very disappointing. And sitting...

21 Dec 2024
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Rare balancing act

THE VHM Rare Soil and Mineral Sands project hinges on the ability to balance economic benefit to the region with limiting the effect on the current agricultural industry and community. Gannawarra Shire Council chief executive Geoff Rollinson said the...

18 Dec 2024
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Rare balancing act

THE VHM Rare Soil and Mineral Sands project hinges on the ability to balance economic benefit to the region with limiting the effect on the current agricultural industry and community. Gannawarra Shire Council chief executive Geoff Rollinson said the...

18 Dec 2024
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VHM Limited Rare Earth and Mineral Sands Project gets nod

THE proposed VHM Limited Rare Earth and Mineral Sands Project at Goschen will progress to the federal government for approval, after the Victorian Minister for Planning completed her assessment on Tuesday. Minister Sonya Kilkenny released...

17 Dec 2024
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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 and Mineral Sands project will have acceptable environmental effects. In...

17 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

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 farmer Craige Kennedy is a member of the group Mine Free Mallee Farms which opposes...

17 Dec 2024