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When rural goes wrong, Rural Aid is there
BORN from the 2015 El Nino declaration, Rural Aid started with the Buy A Bale campaign to aid drought-stricken producers. Eight years later, Rural Aid…
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Barham abbatoir set for April start
BARHAM livestock producer and advocate Lauren Mathers has returned to the board of the Murray Plains Meat Co-op, six months after standing down as its…
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Cash in on true value of carbon
A LACK of professional guidance has been blamed for farms with carbon projects being mistakenly discounted in land valuations. Research by the Carbon Market Institute,…
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Fiery warning about the harvest
FARMERS in – or heading into – harvest, cutting crops and hay, got a seriously expensive warning about the fire season potential when more than…
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Filling the feed gap
FILLING the late-summer and early-autumn feed gap is a constant challenge for woolgrowers in dryland farming regions such as the Mallee, north-west Victoria and south-west…
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Woolgrowers aim for $25m sale
MOULAMEIN’S Shippen family, one of Australia’s largest woolgrowers, is culling as much as $25 million worth of blue-ribbon Western District land from its portfolio. The…
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Growers can fight frost risk
NORTHERN Victorian grain growers have a suite of new resources to help them prepare for late frosts and a potential dry finish to the growing…
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Nudges can boost carbon farming uptake
RESEARCHERS examining the economic and psychological influences on decision-making have found that just a handful of shared success stories about carbon farming would convince many…
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Calls for wine support as China tariffs deadline looms
By Dominic Giannini AUSTRALIA’S wine industry is in desperate need of financial support even if China moves to strip punitive tariffs, the opposition says. The…
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Farmland Market Insights: A Tightening Grip on Land Ownership and Blue-Ribbon Prices
By Liv Casben FARMLAND is held more tightly than it has been for a generation, and prospective buyers are carefully reassessing purchasing decisions, but when…
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Varroa mite eradication effort abandoned
AUSTRALIA’S biosecurity experts have run up the white flag and surrendered all plans of eradicating varroa mite from the national bee population. The move came…
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Ideas grow at Petro
THE first field day at Petro Station since it was put under new ownership in 2017 has been deemed a great success. On Thursday, 72 growers…
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