Farming and Environment

AN international collaboration aimed at developing innovative weed management solutions for Australian grain growers will enter a new phase. The Grains Research and Development Corporation…

FEDERAL Nationals MPs have called on Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to act swiftly to deal with the shortage of workers to meet the needs of…

WATER storages of the northern Murray-Darling Basin are 18 per cent higher than they were during the record low levels of this time last year,…

EXCEPTIONAL conditions through spring and historically high livestock prices are behind a major surge in Victorian farm business confidence, according to the latest Rabobank Rural…

LEGISLATION passed Federal Parliament this week enabling Wine Australia to establish a wine export label directory to help wine brand owners protect their export labels…

THE gross value of agricultural production is forecast to rise by 7 per cent to $65 billion in 2020-21. Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said the…

THE first female duo as president and vice-president of the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) history have been appointed. VFF this week announced the outcome of…

MAJOR fish restocking plans kicked off in the lower Darling River this week amid warnings that Menindee will run out of water again in just…

FEWER than 200 people have taken up the Federal Government’s cash payment incentive aimed at attracting jobseekers to rural areas to undertake farm work, prompting…

AFTER a three-month prohibition, anglers have been let off the hook this week and are now free to fish iconic Murray cod. The three-month closed…

ONE of Australia’s most unique marsupials and a species rarer than the giant panda — the numbat — has been reintroduced into Mallee Cliffs National…

SUNRAYSIA chickpea grower James O’Day is anticipating a bumper chickpea crop off the back of last year, in which he harvested nothing. This year’s crop…