28 Sep 02 | A RUTHERGLEN winery and a Yarrawonga vegetable farming family claimed the two major prizes in this year's Bank of Melbourne Victorian Farm Management competition. Andrew and Carol Sutherland Smith, Warrabilla Wines, were judged the winners of
28 Sep 02 | QUEENSLAND Brahman breeders Ashley and Kellie Barron, Kumbia, via Kingaroy, have got quite a show record at Royal Melbourne. And it wasn't about to be broken last week. The Barrons won grand champion cow and supreme exhibit broad ribbons with o
28 Sep 02 | THE FIRST week interbreed judging at the Royal Melbourne Show came down to the wire again this year but the Maine-Anjou and Blonde d'Aquitane exhibits came up trumps to win champion male and female. The Blonde d'Aquitanes have accomplished quite a
28 Sep 02 | PRODUCERS have been told to lift their game when it comes to filling out the new national vendor declaration (NVD) forms, which appear to have met with a few teething problems. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment said many of t
28 Sep 02 | A BRITISH report into genetically modified (GM) crops in North America has made the extraordinary finding that the new crops delivered none of the benefits their creators claimed they would. The report, commissioned by Britain's largest organi
28 Sep 02 | PARCHED rain gauges continue to send irrigation water prices to new record levels, with a reduced volume of sales last week setting a new high of $265 a megalitre (ML) for Eildon water. Almost 1100ML was traded at that price, about half the vo
14 Sep 02 | FROM the northern end of Loddon shire to the start of the Mallee and beyond, one can see crop failures on either side of the Loddon Valley Highway. Green tinges on the land in early September of crops four to five centimetres high are signs of
14 Sep 02 | VICTORIAN farmers will be lobbying for water and fodder transport subsidies when the Government's new seasonal conditions taskforce meets for the first time today. Light rains during the week brought only temporary relief to the Wimmera and no
14 Sep 02 | MID-MICRON wools have clawed back toward their highest price levels in 12 years, spurred on by tightening supply concerns, amenable exchange rates and active buying from local topmakers and China. After across-the-board price increases of 20 c
14 Sep 02 | "What's in Store" By MIKE NIXON IT DOES not seem to matter where you go, the main topic of conversation is about the big dry. For the past fortnight I have been on annual leave savouring the delights of the south coast of NSW. In other
14 Sep 02 | WATER prices dipped last week when almost 1500 megalitres of water for the greater Goulburn irrigation system traded at $235.05/mL, down from the record $250 set at the previous week's sales. This was the third successive week when water for t
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