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Vic Govt unveils $115m in drought funding
3:50 PM AEDT | The Victorian Government will rebate half Victorian farmers fixed water charges and council rates under a $115m drought support package announced today  | State drought aid needed urgently | Irrigators - no water, no pay
Irrigators - no water, no pay
10/10/2008 | DROUGHT-stricken NSW Murray irrigators fed up with paying for the delivery of water they don’t get are threatening to withhold $5.5 million in water fees this year in a mass protest at the State Government’s refusal to waive the charges.  | CommentsComments (1)
9/10/2008 | PLANS by Goulburn Murray Water (G-MW) to roll out massive price increases to Broken and Ovens irrigators as part of a shift towards a more user pays system of setting bulk water charges have been temporarily put on hold.
Push for bigger farms
9/10/2008 | PRESSURE has never been greater for farm businesses to “get big or get out” in order to take advantage of economies of scale and be able to meet new cost and climate challenges.  | CommentsComments (2)
9/10/2008 | US food giant, H J Heinz Company, has made a $288 million takeover bid (including debt) for iconic Australian fruit and vegetable manufacturer Golden Circle.
7/10/2008 | Farm Progress, a Rural Press/Fairfax Media subsidiary in the United States, posed a series of agricultural policy questions to the Obama and McCain camps. This is an extract of what the two men vying for the most powerful job in the world had to say about farming, fertiliser and fuel for American farmers…….
7/10/2008 | THE global economic crisis and the ongoing war in Iraq underline why many analysts think next month's American presidential election will be the most significant in a generation.
Ribbon cut on VLE Leongatha extensions
7/10/2008 | TO THE call of ‘sale-o, sale-o’ buyers, producers and onlookers gathered round to see the ribbon cut at the official opening of the extensions to the Victorian Livestock Exchange (VLE), Leongatha, on Thursday.
Taking a different approach in the northern Wimmera
7/10/2008 | IN 1996 Don McKenzie took a step back from the operation of his broadacre mixed farming property at Jeparit in the northern Wimmera, a total 1097 hectares between three properties, and took stock of a few things.
3/10/2008 | State Government funds are being provided to assist local councils to tackle invasive weeds on local roads.
Vic water strategy to spurn Barmah channel
3/10/2008 | The missing link in Victoria's statewide water grid will remain on the back burner as the State Government releases its draft 50-year water strategy for northern Victoria.
State drought aid needed urgently
2/10/2008 | The Victorian Farmers Federation says the State Government must reinstate essential drought support measures after last weekend's soaring temperatures laid waste to wheat crops across Northern Victoria.
Can it get worse for farmers than Garnaut?
2/10/2008 | Farmers are wondering what else the government will throw at them following the release on Tuesday of the third and final Garnaut report and recommendations on the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme.  | CommentsComments (2)
Drought assistance to continue for parts of Gippsland
1/10/2008 | The Federal Government has accepted independent advice to extend drought assistance for parts of the Central and East Gippsland region, after experts toured the region last week.  | CommentsComments (2)
30/09/2008 | At its September meeting, the Board of Goulburn-Murray Water (G-MW) deferred setting a start date for the implementation of basin pricing to allow time for the development of a transition strategy that addresses a range of evolving issues and customer needs.
Fire crews to pump pipe water
30/09/2008 | Fire crews have been granted permission to take water from Victoria's north-south pipeline, in a move that has raised questions about a Labor MP's lobbying.  | CommentsComments (2)
29/09/2008 | One of the North Central Catchment's regionally prohibited weeds has been detected growing in the Lake Boga and Tresco areas, prompting immediate action to eradicate the threat.
29/09/2008 | Work has begun on the $501 million Wodonga Rail Bypass, which is aimed at creating an interstate rail freight super-highway and delivering major passenger rail service improvements.  | CommentsComments (1)
Environmentally friendly farmers at a loss under ETS
29/09/2008 | Biological Farmers of Australia says the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme could cost farmers using environmentally friendly methods of production.
84-year-old pipe protestor removed by Brumby guards
26/09/2008 | A lone pipe protestor disrupted Premier John Brumby's trip to northern Victoria, confronting the Premier at a community function in Wodonga this afternoon, before being escorted away by the Premier's guards.  | CommentsComments (2)
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