Rural

NUMBERS lifted this week at Hamilton where agents yarded 10,100 lambs along with 4787 sheep.

GOOD rainfall and high commodity prices have driven strong farm financial performance for 2021-22, particularly in the Western District.

THE Victorian Government has recently announced a major funding boost to volunteers and young people to help them protect and restore the natural environment in our area.

ONCE again, the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange has gone into seven figures for selling sheep during a financial year, reaching the milestone early during yesterday's sale.

CAVENDISH sheep farmer Bronte Gorringe recently had the honour of participating in a week long Marcus Oldham Rural Leadership Program in May after which she was inspired to do more in agriculture advocacy.

DESPITE another record-breaking year for grain exports, Australians still aren’t eating their recommended share of one of the nation’s key commodities.

A RECENT survey has shed some light on farming confidence for the year ahead.

JIGSAW Farms hosted a whole farm planning workshop and farm tour last week for 20 visiting women from the local Women on Farms network.

RURAL and remote Australians are being urged to nominate a local doctor who has gone ‘above and beyond’ in helping their patients, communities or colleagues, for the Rural Doctors Association of Australia’s (RDAA) Rural Doctor of the Year Award 2022.

WITH the ink barely dry on the newly sworn in Federal Government, its commitment to ending live sheep exports as pledged prior to the election remains firm, but just not in the first term.

ANTHRAX has caused the sudden death of livestock in Australia for the past 150 years.

AMONG issues of major concern to the agricultural sector is the rollout of the Australian Agriculture Visa (AAV) program to address workforce shortages, with fears of ongoing shortages leading to some farmers making operational and commercial decisions, based on whether they think they can get workers or not.