Farming and Environment

THE National Party claims grocery prices will rise as a result of the “forced unionisation” of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme. A new…

TWO young women on the Mildura Show committee will be representing the region later this year. Allegra Thorburn and Katelyn Hancock took out the Rural…

THE Victorian Farmers Federation has appointed Brendan Tatham as its chief executive. Mr Tatham had been interim chief executive since November last year and was…

Researchers have made a scientific breakthrough which could significantly advance understanding herbicide resistance in ryegrass, with the new information set to help combat the weed…

A BID to measure urban tree canopies in towns across the Swan Hill region was rejected at this week’s Swan Hill Rural City Council meeting.…

SINCE starting out as a “gadget day” that celebrated the ingenuity of dried fruit growers, the Mildura Field Days has grown far beyond its roots.…

ABOUT 40 farmers from across New South Wales and Victoria have met at a Pooncarie farm to view a recently planted hemp crop and discuss…

PEAK horticultural groups say a plan by Mildura Council to increase farming rates while cutting dues for residential ratepayers will be the final nail in…

MILDURA man Ian Browne has expressed concern at the number of dead carp being left on banks and is appealing to local, state and federal…

By Megan Frankel-Vaughan Tony Martin never envisaged following in his parents and grandparents footsteps to become a dried grape grower. The third generation Merbein grower…

PRECISION farming across much of Australia came to a temporary halt this week, after the unexpected failure of a satellite. British company Inmarsat’s I-4 F1…

WATER allocation prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin are likely to remain low for a fourth consecutive year, according to the latest ABARES water market…