Rural

CANOLA growers across the country are being urged to consider their harvesting options and maintain a degree of flexibility with the ongoing rains throughout spring and the summer of 2022-23 forecast to be wetter than average.

WITH three weeks until the State Election on November 26, Western Victoria MP, Jaala Pulford announced last week she will retire from politics after 16 years.

INTERNATIONAL airports and ports, relevant to the threat posed by foot and mouth disease (FMD), will remain subject to Australia’s Biosecurity Response Zone Determination, to June 2023.

THE State Government recently announced support for Victorian Agricultural and Pastoral Societies to help their COVID recovery.

YOU won’t hear a farmer telling anyone "we could do with a bit o’ rain” for a while, as they are so often heard saying.

A LANDMARK new body of work has been released to assist governments and private organisations to tackle Australia’s growing bushfire problem and save lives, land and property.

MEAT and Livestock Australia (MLA) is predicting a rise in herd numbers on the back of lower female slaughter rates and positive bull sale results.

DEMODAIRY Foundation’s new chair, Andrea Vallance, wants more people to access the Foundation’s funds to help them advance in the industry.

FARMERS and small businesses in rural and regional areas have lost more than $1.2 million to scammers this year, an increase of more than 20 per cent compared to last year, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

AUSTRALIA is on track to harvest a near-record winter grain crop of 61.9 million tonnes, according to Rabobank’s 2022/23 Australian Winter Crop Forecast.

PROPOSED changes to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 (POCTA) are causing concern amongst agricultural industry stakeholders as the detail within the new Plan for Victoria’s New Animal Care and Protection Laws, (the plan) remains ambiguous and unclear.

THE Hamilton Pastoral and Agricultural Society have confirmed that Sheepvention Rural Expo 2023 will return to a two-day format operating on the Sunday and first Monday of August moving forward.