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  • Following the industry’s growth

    Following the industry’s growth

    It seems everyone wants – or has wanted – a piece of the Swan Hill Chemicals action. Back in the 1960s multinational Shell loved it…

  • Online tool to help prepare for climate risks

    Online tool to help prepare for climate risks

    Farming communities have been dealing with drought, floods, fires and other changes in the climate for a long time. But with extreme weather predicted to…

  • Mallee hay hopes diminish after rain

    Mallee hay hopes diminish after rain

    THE region’s high hopes of a record hay season have diminished, with farmers unable to catch a break in the weather to bale crops. The…

  • Working in harmony with your stock

    Working in harmony with your stock

    Considering Grahame Rees had spent much of his life in the open, endless spaces of western NSW around Ivanhoe, it’s amazing how much of his…

  • Prime Mallee lots for sale

    Prime Mallee lots for sale

    Why put your foot in the door when you can have not one, but two, prime Mallee lots in the one go, through BR&C Agents…

  • Born for a life on the land

    Born for a life on the land

    Harrison Gurnett loves life on the land – and the 11-year-old primary school student isn’t just running a few chooks and the house cow. Instead…

  • $16.1 million pastoral land sale a new benchmark

    $16.1 million pastoral land sale a new benchmark

    Glen Emu Station being knocked down for $16.1 million has created a new benchmark for pastoral land in the Balranald region. Elders Real Estate’s Peter…

  • Caught in COVID cross border chaos? Have your say now

    The NSW Cross-Border Commissioner, James McTavish, is seeking input from businesses regarding their cross border experience in the NSW-Victoria border region. Some costly, timewasting Covid…

  • Hay is stacking up

    Hay is stacking up

    THIS year’s hay season is shaping up to be one of the best on record, according to Mallee farmer Gordon Trigg. The fourth-generation farmer, based…

  • Pest management under microscope

    Pest management under microscope

    BIRCHIP Cropping Group’s integrated pest management project members recently met at BCG to work through their strategies with leading Australian entomologists Paul Horne and Jessica…

  • Record rice returns

    Record rice returns

    THE SunRice Group was handing out record dividends at its annual general meeting earlier this month against the backdrop of $1.3 billion revenue – up…

  • Water race win for Cohuna company

    Water race win for Cohuna company

    COHUNA has delivered a big national award for local enterprise AWMA Water Control Solutions – one of its best kept secrets. The business has been…

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