30 Dec 04 | CASMARK Alliance, a prime lamb producer/processor supplier group, has ended as a membership concept but many of the benefits will still continue, Castricum Bros director and lamb manager Theo Castricum said last week. The alliance was set up b
30 Dec 04 | MEAT and Livestock Australia has criticised Japanese media reports that one of Japan's leading beef restaurants was dissatisfied with Australian beef. Syuji Abe, president of restaurant chain Yoshinoya, reportedly told the Nihon Keizai Shimbun
30 Dec 04 | FARMERS who fail to comply with an Australian Workers' Union ban on the shearing of unsedated sheep over 70 kilograms could be reported to Workcover, AWU national pastoral industry co-ordinator Sam Beechey said last week. The Australian Worker
30 Dec 04 | THE future of the Korumburra saleyards will be on the agenda when the South Gippsland Shire council resumes next week. Saleyards operator Ross Svenson told the council two weeks ago that the saleyards should be replaced with new yards to be bu
30 Dec 04 | CALF sale vendors could be in for a terrific new year, with prices at the January calf sales to start at Hamilton on Monday tipped to be much stronger than last year. More than 56,000 calves will go under the hammer across Victoria and south-e
30 Dec 04 | DESPITE the poor season and dramatically reduced yields across the State, this season's harvest will drag well into the New Year. Cold weather and isolated showers have meant many growers south of the divide have not got back into paddocks sin
30 Dec 04 | Dairyfarmers in Gippsland have vacancies for trainees but no takers despite the job opportunities for people who have gained dairy skills through an apprenticeship or dairy traineeship. Like those in the building, automotive and electrical trades,
23 Dec 04 | Victoria's largest milk processor, Murray Goulburn Co-operative (MG), and the recently privatised Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory, have done their bit to lift Christmas spirits across the dairy industry with the announcement late last week
23 Dec 04 | THE Victorian Farm-ers Federation has called for voluntary action to replace regulation in the State's native vegetation plans. VFF president Paul Weller said the strategy provided a more positive focus for the management of native vegetation
23 Dec 04 | ABOUT 70 woolgrowers have put their names alongside Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) to fight for the future of their industry. The fight is the biggest single issue ever to face the industry, according to AWI chairman Ian McLachlan, who said
23 Dec 04 | AFTER lengthy weather delays in early and mid-December the Victorian harvest is finally in full swing. Grain is rolling in from across the state as the Mallee moves to wrap up the cereals and late legumes. Canola is in full swing and the barle
23 Dec 04 | SOME Victorian beef producers are waiting up to six weeks for delivery of their personalised national vendor declarations (NVDs). The claim comes despite assurances from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) that it posts the declarations within
23 Dec 04 | HAIL insurance assessors have urged growers to be patient in waiting for claim evaluation. Assessor Garry Heinrich, of Crop Inspection Service, the only company able to process the claims for the insurance companies, said there were a large numbe
16 Dec 04 | FARMERS across the state are mopping up after torrential rains capped off a disastrous year for grain producers. Wild hail storms across tracts of the state have seen 100 per cent crop damage in some areas. Areas worse affected by the hail
16 Dec 04 | A BID is under way to extend the current exception circumstances (EC) Eastern Mallee area to include other regions that have suffered dreadful seasons. Farmers in areas such as the Millewa, the western Mallee north of Birchip and the Wimmera Plain
16 Dec 04 | RECENT difficult weather conditions have not only decimated the harvest across much of western Victoria but could create problems for animal health, according to two experts in the field. Hamilton veterinarian David Rendell said the recent rai
16 Dec 04 | HARVEST 2004 has come to a grinding halt, with a sweeping series of storms delaying activity right across the state. Although the showers have been extremely patchy, no region can claim to have escaped totally unscathed. The rain brings with it
16 Dec 04 | OPPONENTS of the proposed state government toxic waste facility at Nowingi, in the state's north are pleased with findings of a report on the impact of the facility. Anne Mansell, of the Save the Food Bowl Alliance, said that the environmental stu
16 Dec 04 | FURTHER tariff cuts could be the catalyst for future growth in Australia's beef exports to South Korea, but Australian producers would also need to focus more on production of grain-fed beef. That is the verdict from a report titled Korean and
16 Dec 04 | CONSUMER organisations, medical research bodies and farmers are fed up with the well-timed media stunts, celebrity publicity and violence of animal activists. The extreme methods used by organisations such as the People for the Ethical Treatme
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