Rural

LAST weekend saw the 157th Annual Day and Night Show for the Coleraine P&A Society where the 2022 Show Shearing and Wool Handling Championships took place.

AUSTRALIA’S top dairy farmers have been recognised in Dairy Australia’s 2022 Australian Milk Quality Awards, with farms across south-west Victoria once again making up over half the national numbers.

MELBOURNE Cup Day is more affectionally known as ‘Heather Holcombe Day’ in Port Fairy.

TIMBOON P-12 School has been successful in its application to the Secondary Schools Agriculture Fund (SSAF) to integrate even more STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning objectives into its curriculum to inspire the next generation of farmers and today’s fledgling engineers.

AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation’s marketing arm, The Woolmark Company, and fashion giant HUGO BOSS are taking the suit in a brand-new direction – fully knitted.

DESPITE the wet weather seemingly abating after Hamilton’s wettest spring on record, the ripple effects are still being felt as yet another event has been affected – this time the annual Legacy Fleece Show has been postponed.

THE green and gold of wattles has regularly been used to identify Australia in international competitions and with good reason - more than 1000 native species of the tree are found all over the continent, covering a wide range of climates and soil types.

NOW with much of Eastern Australia swimming in water it amazes that the clowns advising government that rainfall would never fill dams again - and proffering other climate predictions that constantly fall over - always keep their jobs.

A NEW record for the highest average price at a working dog sale was set last Sunday by Glenthompson kelpie breeding and training facility, GoGetta Kelpie Stud, at their first ever auction.

VICTORIA Valley sheep stud farmers, John and Rhonda Crawford, were still waiting for the Victorian Government to publicly respond to the recommendations made in the Inquiry into Ecosystems Decline in Victoria report, before going into caretaker mode for the election.

THE Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (GHCMA) is aware of a fish death event in the upper Wannon River.

FRIDAY, November 4 marked the official start of the Cattle Australia Constitution and the transition of Cattle Council of Australia (CCA) to Cattle Australia and the commencement of the inaugural democratic Board election process.