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  • Super changes to hit farmers with assets in SMSF

    Super changes to hit farmers with assets in SMSF

    FARMERS are on the warpath over Canberra’s proposed superannuation changes. And they are joining forces with the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia with dire…

  • Nangiloc new frontline in Varroa mite fight

    Nangiloc new frontline in Varroa mite fight

    AGRICULTURE Victoria staff have announced the European honeybee parasite known as varroa mite has been detected for the first time in Victoria at a hive…

  • Rising rates an issue for broadacre farmers

    Rising rates an issue for broadacre farmers

    MILDURA-based agribusiness financial specialist Janine McLean has said a recent Regional Investment Corporation (RIC) announcement of another rate rise is hardly likely to be greeted…

  • Silo attention urged

    Silo attention urged

    A RECENT series of high-risk incidents involving the collapse of on-farm silos has put an urgent focus on grain growers to assess, and either maintain…

  • Bird flu battle goes high tech

    Bird flu battle goes high tech

    VICTORIAN authorities has turned to hi-tech in a bid to contain its avian flu outbreak, which has impacted on close to 8 per cent of…

  • Pest free area status to go

    Pest free area status to go

    THE Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area, established in 2006 to help protect local horticultural industries from Queensland fruit fly and enhance market opportunities, is to…

  • Low rain not yet dire on the plains

    Low rain not yet dire on the plains

    ERRATIC rainfalls across the northwest of Victoria are still below long-term rainfall averages but local croppers are not hitting the panic button just yet. Mildura’s…

  • Project to deck the hall at Carwarp

    Project to deck the hall at Carwarp

    THE Carwarp Hall is set to receive some much-needed renovations after the awarding of a State Government grant. The Carwarp Mechanics Institute recently received just…

  • Crays homeward bound

    Crays homeward bound

    LOCALS are invited to get hands-on to release crayfish back into the Murray River in Swan Hill this Friday afternoon, July 5. OzFish and its…

  • Government calls time on labour solutions

    Government calls time on labour solutions

    BASED in Mildura, MADEC Australia says the agricultural and horticultural industries needing a steady supply of seasonal and/or short-term labour are about to hit a…

  • Help available for subsoil decisions

    Help available for subsoil decisions

    GRAIN growers across north-west Victoria who might be considering subsoil amelioration on their farms can now go to Agriculture Victoria’s new dedicated webpage and support…

  • Mallee growth spurt to flatten out

    Mallee growth spurt to flatten out

    A decade of unprecedented and unbroken growth in the value of farmland across northwest Victoria – and the rest of the country – is running…

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