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New insights into the effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms

AUSTRALIAN Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences’ (ABARES) latest Insights report provides analysis on the effects of climate variability on Australian cropping and livestock farms. The report examines both short-term...

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05 Feb 2020

News

Helping farm exporters reach overseas

FARMERS and small agribusinesses finding it difficult to tap into overseas markets can seek help with the Australian Government delivering on a $6.1 million election promise to continue support for small exporters. Minister for Agriculture, Senator...

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05 Feb 2020

Southern Farmer

Fruits of the labour

AT Koala Cherries in Yarck, the yield is down but the quality is up. It’s been a clean fruit year, and Simon Rouget, co-owner and Chief Production Officer at the orchards, has experienced high pack-out rates with a larger percentage of fruit going...

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05 Feb 2020

Insights and People

Jessie receives award for tops in agriculture

LOCAL Mansfield girl Jessie Reed was recently awarded the Alister Say Memorial Award in agriculture for outstanding work through her school based apprenticeship. Jessie commenced a school-based apprenticeship through FCJ College Benalla in...

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05 Feb 2020

Southern Farmer

When the smoke settles

AFTER the smoke has settled and the fires are extinguished, roads are reopened and communities begin to rebuild. Left to assess the scorched land and the smouldering ruins, the blackened trees and the decimated livestock, immediate help is...

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05 Feb 2020

Insights and People

All about the breed at Black Diamond

“I’M farming through and through,” Murray Van der Drift of Black Diamond Speckle Parks and Macorna Limousins said with a laugh. “I can talk cows all day,” he added, his passion evident for Speckle Parks and Limousins which the family...

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20 Jan 2020

Insights and People

Generations in the saddle

IT happens twice each year – before the sun is up, Bruce McCormack prepares his family for their High Country muster. It is a tradition stretching back 150 years – something Bruce’s father, grandfather and great grandfather all did with their...

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20 Jan 2020

Insights and People

Camels pioneer dairy industry

The Camel Milk Company Australia is busy. On a single day in early November, Channel Nine was there conducting an interview as news had just broken that camel milk was now recognised under the Dairy Act of Victoria, allowing the product to fall...

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01 Dec 2019

Livestock

The donkeys of Hee Haw Farm

THE first donkey was a pet. “John said ‘one, just make sure you get only one’,” Deb Hanton remembered. “Alright,” Deb said. And within six months one donkey became two, and by the end of the second year the two had turned into 27. It was...

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01 Dec 2019

North East and Goulburn Murray Farmer

Green light to Gillieston

FOLLOWING on from the Environment Protection Authority approval, the City of Greater Shepparton has given the green light to Meatworks Australia to construct an abattoir in Gillieston. Though a definite boost to the Shepparton economy, the approval...

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01 Dec 2019