Vegetables

WITH legumes becoming big business across northwest Victoria, the latest research out of Monash University is ringing some alarm bells for local croppers. The research…

A GROUP of Australian vegetable growers is studying export opportunities, following the UK free trade agreement and negotiations with the European Union. The group of…

BRITT MacNamara is today an Out of the Box regular. As a supplier, not a customer. Since she acted on a whimsical moment – her…

IS Sunraysia a national food bowl? Absolutely. But if you live there, is your food bowl a local farm, or is it the local supermarket?…

OUT of the Box was not just a foundation customer for Merbein’s Ben Mitchell, it was almost confirmation he had made the right decision in…

THE Gina Rineharts of the world aside, most farmers farm to live. By the same token, most of them also absolutely live to farm. In…

Major retailers are now pushing suppliers to sharpen their pencils with their production costs and make savings where they can. But AUSVEG says “there appears…

SURROUNDED by a sea of green, the Millewa’s farmers have every reason to be optimistic that a good growing season will lead to a great…

There is one thing about the generational family farming business, just ask Wemen’s Andrew Young. As he recalls it, his late father Allan, who founded…

“If I can’t export it, there’s no way I’m growing it.” That’s where almost 100 years of Sunraysia farming has taken the Minter family –…

THE Festival Creole sounds like a wild time at New Orleans but it’s actually a variety of garlic that’s part of grower Peter Hackett’s relentless…

WOOD Wood organic vegetable growers Adam and Kellie Farley have two sons – Tao, 11, and Nyran, 5 – and four foster children. Adam can’t…