IF you’ve never heard of Jil Jil, or have absolutely no idea where it is, you’re not the only one.

Birchip Cropping Group chairman John Ferrier has got used to saying he farms about 25 kilometres north of Birchip itself, where his family farms 5000 hectares of the usual suspects like wheat, barley, canola, lentils and vetch for hay.

“We also run sheep, and although we have recently gone ou...