Rural News

Workshops to look at visa options for employing workers

Ed McLeish

Tasty way to support regional winemakers

Tastes of Rutherglen will showcase the best wines from Rutherglen and the surrounding bushfire-affected north-east Victorian region, from Friday, March 6 to Sunday, March 8. Winemakers of Rutherglen, a group made up of 18 Rutherglen wineries, have...

Jamieson Salter

14 hours ago

Dairy

Gardiner scholarship winners get help with studies

Heading to university has just been made a little easier for three local students awarded a Gardiner Dairy Foundation scholarship. Dairy farming kids — Kaitlyn Wishart from Mead, Emily Robins from Cohuna and Chelsea Hicks from Calivil &mdash...

Sophie Baldwin

14 hours ago

Dairy

Gardiner scholarship winners get help with studies

Sophie Baldwin

14 hours ago

News

Deregulating banks was a good thing, says Col

Got a meeting coming up with the bank manager. The son and heir tends to handle most of those these days, going in there armed with attitude, laptop and a lot of jargon that makes absolutely no sense to me. In my day the missus did the books &mdash...

Geoff Adams

17 Feb 2020

News

Letter to the editor: Comments reveal ignorance of drought impacts

Sue Braybon Tocumwal, NSW I was extremely concerned to read a recent article in a metropolitan newspaper that claimed the drought was a “fake crisis” and that “despite the sob stories, most farmers were fine”. This...

Geoff Adams

18 hours ago

News

Letter to the editor: Community urged to attend water meeting

Shane Brugge, Cobram Although I am not a food producer at the mercy of poor water policy decisions, I cannot stand by and watch communities across northern Victoria and southern NSW continue to suffer from ill-informed policy makers. This week the...

Country News

18 Feb 2020

News

Canadian company buys up Australian water

Global food and agri-business company Olam International has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Olam Orchards Australia, has entered into an agreement to sell 89 085 Ml of its permanent water rights in Australia to a company...

Geoff Adams

16 hours ago

News

Still time to sign Big Buffalo petition

A petition calling on the Victorian Government to refer the expansion of Lake Buffalo to the Federal Government for investigation has received more than 1000 signatures so far. State Member for Ovens Valley Tim McCurdy said the petition had been...

Rodney Woods

18 Feb 2020

News

NSW water rules will be detrimental for farmers downstream, MP says

Rain will not end drought conditions across southern NSW if the state government allows special interests to secretly siphon off water before it reaches the river, according to NSW Member for Murray Helen Dalton. “Government ministers keep...

Rodney Woods

18 Feb 2020

News

NSW MP calls for change to basin plan rule

An amendment to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, which would allow it to be paused in times of critical need, must be implemented, according to NSW Shadow Water Minister Clayton Barr. On his first visit to the southern Riverin...

Country News

19 Feb 2020

News

Bushfire recovery for red meat producers

Meat & Livestock Australia has launched two new initiatives to assist red meat producers affected by recent bushfires with their recovery. The Bushfire Recovery Sponsorship Program will provide financial support for industry events that increase...

Country News

07 Feb 2020

Water

Farmers call to boycott water rates

For more than half a century, Cohuna’s Russell Crichton has been a proud food producer. But for the first time in all those years, he has joined the ever-lengthening list of farmers unable to pay their Goulburn-Murray Water bill.

Sophie Baldwin

18 Feb 2020

Water

A return to Canberra for farmers?

If new Federal Water Minister Keith Pitt takes a ‘slowly slowly’ approach to his portfolio, farmers will again be rallying in Canberra, says one water advocacy group.

James Bennett

18 Feb 2020

News

Couple awaits council decision on planning permit

Former dairy farmers wishing to develop an embryo transfer facility in Cosgrove have had their plans delayed, as their proposal awaits approval from Greater Shepparton City Council. Andrew and Tina Paterson from South Gippsland moved to Cosgrove to...

Jamieson Salter

18 Feb 2020

News

Landholders take on regenerative agriculture project

More than 100 landholders are participating in the North Central Catchment Management Authority’s Regenerative Agriculture project, to reinvigorate the productive and ecological health of soil in the region. The project has been running for 15...

Jamieson Salter

18 Feb 2020

Dairy

Basin plan discussed at Murray Dairy meeting

The first Murray Dairy agronomy network meeting was held in Echuca recently, with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, water policy and water use on the agenda. Among the guest speakers were Claire Miller from Claire Miller Consulting. Ms Miller has been...

Sophie Baldwin

18 Feb 2020

Dairy

Fonterra milk production continues to decline

Australia’s milk production has continued to decline according to the 2020 Global Dairy Update, released by New Zealand dairy company Fonterra. In November 2019, Australian milk production decreased 3.4 per cent, compared to November 2018. Production...

Jamieson Salter

18 Feb 2020

News

Sit down Fido

Country News introduces Colin Curmudgeon — an old cocky with an unshakeable faith in the old way. There are a few ways to get things done, he says, including his way or the wrong way. But best of all, so near and dear to his heart, is the old...

Geoff Adams

18 Feb 2020