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Gillieston heading to VCAT

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
March 2020
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AN objection has been lodged with the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) by members of the Gillieston Action Group against the City of Greater…

Featured story, Livestock, News, abattoir, Cassandra Rowe, City of Greater Shepparton, Clair Haines, Department of Environment, Gillieston, Gillieston Action Group, Jane Homewood, Kevan Horder, Land, Luke Haines, Meatworks Australia, Q Fever, Richard Wynne, VCAT, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Water and Planning, zoonotic disease

Helping farm exporters reach overseas

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
February 2020
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FARMERS and small agribusinesses finding it difficult to tap into overseas markets can seek help with the Australian Government delivering on a $6.1 million election…

News, exports, federal government, grants, Package Assisting Small Exporters

A lifetime’s passion in wool for Rex

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
February 2020
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REX Forrest of Rosstulla Holdings in Beechworth was recently recognised for his outstanding contribution to the wool industry, with a stencil awarded by the Australian…

News, Sheep, Awards, Beechworth, merino, Rex Forrest, Rosstulla Holdings, wool

Jessie receives award for tops in agriculture

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
February 2020
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LOCAL Mansfield girl Jessie Reed was recently awarded the Alister Say Memorial Award in agriculture for outstanding work through her school based apprenticeship. Jessie commenced…

Featured story, Insight & People, News, agriculture award, Alister Say Memorial Award, Dockers Plains Pastoral Company, FCJ College Benalla, Jessie Reed, Wodonga TAFE

Generations in the saddle

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
January 2020
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IT happens twice each year – before the sun is up, Bruce McCormack prepares his family for their High Country muster. It is a tradition…

Insight & People, Bruce McCormack, high country grazing, Mountain Cattlemen’s Association of Victoria

Hay while the sun keeps on shining

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
January 2020
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MANSFIELD farmers have been spared the feed crisis crippling Australia, with well-timed rain resulting in one of the best hay seasons seen in decades. Hay…

Featured story, News, feed, hay

Camels pioneer dairy industry

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
December 2019
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The Camel Milk Company Australia is busy. On a single day in early November, Channel Nine was there conducting an interview as news had just…

Insight & People, Livestock, camel, Camel Milk Company Australia, Chris Williams, Megan Williams

Green light to Gillieston

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
December 2019
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FOLLOWING on from the Environment Protection Authority approval, the City of Greater Shepparton has given the green light to Meatworks Australia to construct an abattoir…

Featured story, News, abattoir, Gillieston, Meatworks Australia

Capeweed indicative of a larger problem

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
November 2019
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PASTURES covered in the striking yellow of capeweed are a reminder of a year of lower rainfall, and drought conditions that allowed this monoculture to…

News, capeweed, Gecko Clan, Neil Devanny, noxious weed

Investing in dairy

The Southern Farmer
November 2019
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IN an industry that has had standardised milk for so long, with limited offerings from small independently owned pop-up dairies, Inglenook Dairy was initially a…

Dairy, Insight & People, Inglenook Dairy, Rachael Peterken, Troy Peterken

Embracing cannabis

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
October 2019
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PREVIOUSLY known for its fruit growing, dairy and cropping, Shepparton and the surrounding area is looking to diversify and take advantage of gaps in the…

News, cannabis, Cannatrek, medicinal cannabis, Shepparton

Regenerative farming

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
September 2019
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DANIEL Kelton of Alexandra’s Holistic Pastoral wants to see the land he is farming transformed to “waist high grass, wet all year round despite ever-increasing…

News, Aldona Baranowski, Alexandra, Daniel Kelton, Holistic Pastoral

Guano – a tale of two birds

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
August 2019
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IT was the best of times. It was the worst of times. This might have been the thoughts of the guano miners shovelling and bagging…

News, fertiliser, guano, Madura Guano Gold

Discovering Wrenwood

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
August 2019
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FOUR years ago, Lizabeth and Jayson Souness bought Wrenwood, a small acreage farm in Bungowannah, with the intention of opening a farm shop, gallery and…

Horticulture, Insight & People, News, Jayson Souness, Lizabeth Souness, Wrenwood

Gold fever in Tolmie

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
August 2019
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FIRST impressions of Kevin Marriott, of Tolmie Gold Saffron, is his inherently positive outlook on farming and his appreciation for all the lessons learned, good…

Horticulture, Insight & People, Kevin Marriot, saffron, Tolmie Gold Saffron

SPC sale confirmed

North East & Goulburn-Murray Farmer
July 2019
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IT has been confirmed that Goulburn-Valley based SPC has been purchased by the Shepparton Partners Collective, a joint venture assembled purely to acquire the fruit…

Fruit, News, Gary Godwill, Shepparton Partners Collective, SPC
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