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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

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Farming and Environment
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
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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
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Summer fire risk elevated

A LACK of rainfall across western Victoria has fire authorities on high alert, warning landholders to prepare for increased fire activity in summer. Australian Fire Authorities Council last week released the Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook for...

16 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

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 Regional Strategy Group (MRSG) hosted senior representatives from the NSW Department of...

12 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

Farmers want facts

MALLEE and Wimmera farmers gathered at Wycheproof on Friday, November 29 to discuss and share information on several renewable energy projects in the area including wind factories, mining, and solar farms. The meeting held at Wycheproof Recreation...

11 Dec 2024
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Warning on haystack fires

ONE of Victoria’s senior firefighters has issued a warning for awareness on haystack fires following recent late-spring rains. CFA response numbers showed 66 per cent of the agency’s callouts to that type of job occurred in the west and...

11 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

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 consumer backlash here and overseas, fuelled by social...

09 Dec 2024
Farming and Environment

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 Pistachio Company’s state-of-art pistachio hulling facility. The...

08 Dec 2024
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Have your say on VNI West effects

LOCAL communities are being encouraged to provide feedback on the Department of Transport and Planning’s draft scoping requirements for the VNI West Environment Effects Statement. An EES is Victoria’s most rigorous and transparent environmental...

05 Dec 2024
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Elders eyeing a Delta deal

THE Mallee and north-west Victoria’s leading agricultural agency business is about to go through its biggest shake-up in decades. Adelaide-based Elders only needs an ACCC rubber stamp early next year to formalise its $475 million...

29 Nov 2024
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Fire warning as harvest heats up

WITH harvest season in full swing in some parts of the state, Victorian Country Fire Authority members are calling on farmers to be aware of the risk of conflagration in combine headers. Jack Hewitt is a hay, cereal and sheep farmer and also a Group...

20 Nov 2024
Farming and Environment

Doubt over future fruit fly controls

EFFORTS to combat Queensland fruit fly in the region remain uncertain after the Victorian Government’s decision to terminate funding for managing the pest from June next year. A spokesperson for Agriculture Victoria said the government had invested...

15 Nov 2024