29 Sep 06 | VICTORIAN farmers have angrily dismissed billionaire Richard Pratt's suggestion that water should be doubled in price to ease Australia's water crisis. Speaking after a business and environment accord in Melbourne last week, Mr Pratt said wate
29 Sep 06 | THE AUSTRALIAN Government has stood firm in the face of claims from World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Pascal Lamy that the wheat single desk export system would have to go for stalled trade talks to come to fruition. Reiterating its
29 Sep 06 | THE embarrassing, damaging and divisive affair of the FarmOnline poll rort scandal has finally been brought to a close by Meat and Livestock Australia. National Livestock Identifi-cation System manager Christian Mulders has resigned, and the t
29 Sep 06 | and COLIN BETTLES AWB board meetings this week are likely to decide the wheat exporter's strategy for dealing with an ever-increasing list of potential costs arising from the Cole Inquiry, including the cost of the inquiry itself, possible tax
29 Sep 06 | THE Nationals are officially on election footing after leader Mark Vaile fulfilled the worst kept secret in Canberra by shifting from Trade to the Transport portfolio. The move, forecast in last week's Stock & Land, is designed to give Mr Vaile mo
29 Sep 06 | AUSTRALIA'S 4000 vegetable growers have to become export oriented if they are to survive, according to Tasmanian vegetable farmer and industry spokesman Richard Bovill. Mr Bovill, who led hundreds of Tasmanian vegetable farmers on a tractor ra
29 Sep 06 | THE LIVE sheep trade has come to the rescue of drought affected sheep producers. The trade requires up to one million head of stock between now and Christmas and is prepared to pay for them. With the Muslim festival of the Hajj falling in m
29 Sep 06 | and Gregor Heard WIMMERA-MALLEE farmers eligible for a tank installation rebate are flooding both tank manufacturers and water authorities with inquiry. The State Government recently announced it would be issuing water tank rebates of up to
15 Sep 06 | A VICTORIAN Angus breeder who quit the Angus Australia federal board in July said dissatisfaction with the society was not limited to Victorian members. Last week's Stock & Land reported the society's Victorian state committee had passed a mot
15 Sep 06 | AUSTRALIA's competition watchdog has been called in to investigate Victoria's largest rural water authority, Goulburn Murray Water, over its handling of the recent trade of just under 33,000 megalitres of irrigation water into the Goulburn Valley
15 Sep 06 | THIS CURLY, stylised image of a sheep carries the hopes of the entire wool industry. This week the much anticipated Test Marketing Project was launched in the US, in a multi-million dollar bid to get Merino wool back at retail in the toughest
15 Sep 06 | LOCAL councils have embarked on a program of intense lobbying to force the Federal Government to build an inland railway from Melbourne to Brisbane as soon as possible. But such is the desire to have the rail line run through their town to pro
15 Sep 06 | GOULBURN Valley irrigators had to pay up to $400 a megalitre to buy in scarce water again this week as on-going dry conditions kept the prices high. Demand for water is also expected to see the second tranche of 8992 megalitres of Murray syste
15 Sep 06 | ENCOURAGING signs are starting to come from the wool market. In Melbourne this week, fine and superfine wools lifted 10 to 16 cents a kilogram on the back of solid gains last week while broader Merino types also held their ground. The new 17-micro
07 Sep 06 | ANGRY irrigators and water brokers left holding millions of dollars of water they can't get their hands on are preparing to call in the competition watchdog to investigate Goulburn Murray Water's handling of a recent trade of irrigation water int
07 Sep 06 | AUSTRALIAN Wool Industry's (AWI) performance review has not impressed young minds in the wool industry. Michael Craig, 31, runs more than 12,000 superfine ewes at Harrow and is a trained economist. He has questioned much of the $417 million
07 Sep 06 | THE ANGUS breed has been hit by internal discontent after a group of Victorian breeders moved a motion of no-confidence in the breed's federal board executive and general management. The move came from a group of breeders on Angus Australia's
07 Sep 06 | A good shower of rain and the release of water from the Waranga Basin has brought relief to Goulburn Valley dairy farmers and taken some of the urgency out of planning for the year ahead. But farmers in the region are still encouraged to attend on
07 Sep 06 | GRAIN prices have soared by up to $35 a tonne in the past 10 days as end users attempt to shore up supply in the face of a potential shortfall in production. Cash prices for old crop feed barley and wheat rose officially by $25/t to $225/t for
07 Sep 06 | Stock management is at a critical juncture following Australia's driest August since records began in 1900, and its warmest August since 1950. Likening this year to 2002 - Australia's worst drought in 100 years - Victorian Farmers Federation l
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