29 Sep 00 |
BEING prepared to try new feeding regimes and pasture species has boosted production for Tim and Sally McGlade, Timboon, as part of their long-term plan for farm development.
Five years ago, Mr McGlade said their herd peaked at 21 litres, on pastur
29 Sep 00 |
Interbreed: Winning Interbreed champion cow, Interbreed best vessel and Interbreed champion heifer capped off a very successful 2000 Royal Show for Chris Gleeson and Amy Wright, Elm Banks Holsteins, Koroit, in western Victoria.
Blumberg Fireball Ma
29 Sep 00 |
NORTH-east Victoria farmers Craig and Clair Prescott, Tungamah near Yarrawonga, and Deniliquin dairy sharefarmers Danny and Nikki Everingham have won this year¹s Bank of Melbourne Victorian Farm Management Competition.
The winners of the 40-year-ol
29 Sep 00 |
A MASSIVE tree planting program may exaggerate rather than alleviate problems with salinity across Australia¹s landscape, a new research project has found.
While trees have been promoted as the big answer to the nation¹s salinity problems the proje
29 Sep 00 |
FIRST WEEK INTERBREED: NORMALLY known as the main arena, following the Maine Anjou winning the supreme first week bull it became, for a fleeting moment, the Maines arena.
Fending off 11 other fine examples of competing breeds, the result from judge
29 Sep 00 |
THE VICTORIAN Govern-ment revealed this week it was comprehensively reviewing the state of the Melb-ourne showgrounds at Ascot Vale.
The review, containing recommendations, is expected to be finalised by the end of this year or early next year.
De
29 Sep 00 |
FARMERS are to be given the first opportunity to buy more shares in Pivot in a move designed to raise shareholder equity to a more healthy level.
A healthy balance sheet will also position the company for future
sustainable growth.
However, the b
29 Sep 00 |
KEY farming leaders, rather than support dwindling fuel depot blockade action by truck drivers, will descend on Canberra next week to lobby key parliamentarians to quash next February¹s lift in the Government¹s petrol excise rate.
It is expected th
29 Sep 00 |
THE Office of the Regulator-General (ORG) has threatened to investigate the price of each individual service at Vicgrain Ltd¹s export grain terminals, after failing to receive information it sought from Vicgrain.
Regulator-General John Tamblyn told
29 Sep 00 |
WOOL leaders are planning to stitch up a legislative loophole that has shielded abattoirs and fellmongers from paying millions of dollars in promotional tax on wool sales.
Sheep abattoirs and fellmongers who sell wool harvested from slaughtered she
29 Sep 00 |
THE AUSTRALIAN Wool Group¹s ambitious bid for control of the 700,000 bale wool stockpile lay in ruins yesterday after wool growers voted overwhelmingly against its attempt to force a spill of the WoolStock Australia board.
It took counting staff at
13 Sep 00 |
FRUSTRATION over the handling of bovine Johne¹s disease (BJD) has escalated to a producer group advising producers not to test.
The advice being offered by the Australian Beef Association (ABA) extends to refusing departmental staff entry to a prop
13 Sep 00 |
RURAL ratepayers in a northern Victorian shire are up in arms because their council has refused to ease recent hikes in rates of more than 45 per cent, following a recent revaluation of rural and urban properties using a differential rate.
Leitchvi
13 Sep 00 |
CONSISTENT rain across the Wimmera and Mallee over the past week has provided grain growers with a welcome turnaround and a season which is shaping up as the best some can remember.
Wimmera farmers no longer have to rely on heavy spring rains to fi
13 Sep 00 |
TRAINED staff of the Department of Natural Resources and Energy (DNRE) will next week begin monitoring Victoria¹s north-west for locust hot spots.
The hot spots identified, which are areas where it has been confirmed locusts have laid eggs in numbe
13 Sep 00 |
MOTHER Nature came to the help of farmers in Victoria¹s south-west faster than the Government, opening the skies with soaking rainfall in the past two weeks to ease the region¹s parched producers.
Rain in most of the south-west in the past week has
13 Sep 00 |
THE secrecy surrounding genetically modified food trials in Australia is one element that has fuelled debate on GM foods throughout the country.
Biotechnology company Aventis CropScience has been reluctant to reveal the sites of their trials to the
13 Sep 00 |
THE emergence of an estimated $10-$20 million wool industry debt to South Africa has angered wool leaders and raised concerns growers could be forced to pay a three per cent wool tax for longer than initially thought to help cover the debt. The conc
13 Sep 00 |
THE Australian Wool Group has taken its fight for control of the 750,000 bale wool stockpile to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
AWG managing director David Sasson confirmed on Tuesday the company had asked the commission to rev
06 Sep 00 |
TASMANIAN Woolworths-owned supermarkets are threatening to source milk from the mainland, in a knock-on effect from milk price slashing begun by Woolworths last month.
Purity/Roelf Vos supermarkets in Tasmania have called for a tender for the suppl
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