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Time to sit test before duck season starts

4:00 AM | NEW duck hunters will need to start studying soon if they want to pass their Waterfowl Identification Test (WIT) prior to the opening of the 2012 Victorian duck season on Saturday, March 17.

Agribusiness and General - General

Prices go on hold

4:00 AM | A PERIOD of consolidation following the record trading highs in early 2011 seems apparent for the lamb industry in 2012.

Livestock - Sheep

Connection dates to 1800s

4:00 AM | Cheviot Glen has been in Glenys Anderson's family since the 1940s, when her father and uncle purchased the property.

Property - General

VFF objects to Coles slogan

11 Feb 12 | VICTORIAN farmers have called on the Coles supermarket giant to dump the “We Never Freeze, We Never Thaw” slogan from its new fresh fruit and vegetable marketing campaign.

Agribusiness and General - General

Feed lifts at Palgrove

11 Feb 12 | WITH the annual rainfall for the past two years more than 40 per cent above average, managing pasture so it doesn’t run to head and lose quality before it can be grazed has been a challenge for one of Australia’s oldest and best-known Charolais beef cattle seedstock producers.

Grains and Cropping - Grasses and feed

'Easy-care' a standout

11 Feb 12 | FOR 50 years, Ian Patzel has bred and run Poll Herefords on his Strathdownie property in the Western District and believes the breed will continue to thrive on his farm in the next 50 years, with his son Stephen at the operation's helm.

Livestock - Cattle

Steers to $910 at Yea

10 Feb 12 | Steers sold to a top of $910 at the Yea store sale today. Kalmia Estate, Homewood sold 18 the Angus steers aged. 22 months.

Livestock - Cattle

Draft plan for MDB unacceptable: VFF

10 Feb 12 | THE Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) has warned Murray Darling Basin boss Craig Knowles that irrigation communities have not “accepted” the draft basin plan.

Agribusiness and General - Political

Funding for food, wine events across Vic's High Country

10 Feb 12 | TOURISM and Major Events Minister Louise Asher is encouraging food and wine connoisseurs to visit Victoria's High Country to experience a new food and wine event, supported with Victorian Government funding of $50,000.

Agribusiness and General - General

Steers to $1030 at Leongatha

10 Feb 12 | AROUND 2300 cattle were yarded at the Leongatha store sale yesterday where steers sold to a top of $1030.

Livestock - Cattle

Kazakhstan keen on Anvil genetics

10 Feb 12 | Victorian stud Anvil Angus, Alexandra, recently introduced their genetics to the Republic of Kazakhstan, selling a group of autumn-drop heifers to the overseas breeders.

Livestock - Cattle

Success through less stock at Ensay

10 Feb 12 | SIMPLE management is the key for Reece and Wendy Newcomen, who say there isn't anything fancy about their Hereford operation.

Livestock - Cattle

Grain gains from soil biology research

10 Feb 12 | THE science of soil biology is following on the heels of minimum till farming - hailed as the next productivity revolution and a potential source of widespread gains in the cropping sector.

Grains and Cropping - General

Mixed quality at Bairnsdale

09 Feb 12 | SUPPLY fell by 23% at Bairnsdale on Thursday with most of this occurring in the young cattle sections. The usual buyers were present and price trends reflected the quality which was varied across the sale.

Livestock - Cattle

Chinese visitors feast on kangaroo and science

09 Feb 12 | CHINESE visitors received a real taste of Australia during a two-day visit to Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Horsham.

Agribusiness and General - General

Flooding rain developing in NSW, ACT and VIC

09 Feb 12 | FLOODING rain is likely in southeastern New South Wales, the ACT and eastern Victoria in the next few days, starting as early as today, which has prompted the issue of a flood watch.

Agribusiness and General - General

Beef Week a booming success

09 Feb 12 | SOUTHERN stud stock and commercial breeders were treated to an outstanding display of cattle during Stock & Land Beef Week from January 27 to February 3.

Livestock - Cattle

Grain growers’ conference to help shape industry’s future

09 Feb 12 | GRAIN growers around Victoria are encouraged to attend the two-night Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Annual Grains Conference in Echuca-Moama on 26-28 February.

Grains and Cropping - General

Locust numbers low but more flagged for Feb

09 Feb 12 | LOCUST population density remained low throughout western Queensland, New South Wales, and in northern Victoria during January.

Agribusiness and General - General

Top female lines surprise on up side at Leongatha

08 Feb 12 | TOP female lines made more than anticipated at the Leongatha heifer sale on Monday this week where heifers and calves, joined heifers and unjoined heifers were on offer.

Livestock - Cattle