Given high steaks, sum like it hot
A Fish Creek couple proves transparency is a window of opportunity for the future of farming.
Farmer Of The Year
Grain growers extend an olive branch
When it comes to olives, oil’s well that end well for growers Bruce Sprinks and Joo-Yee Lieu.
Goat track a rocky road
Goat farming has been a steep learning curve for Sarah Ajzner and her husband Daniel.
Who will join the ranks of Australia’s best farmers?
Welcome to The Weekly Times Coles 2019 Farmer of the Year awards. Nominations are now open.
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Perennial value
ROSS Cardile’s two-year pasture trial at Strathewen shows annual ryegrass is simply not worth the effort there.
Margin call
EVIDENCE-based agriculture is the catchcry at Emu Park, near Bairnsdale in Victoria’s East Gippsland.
Will and a way
WILL Coulton is an optimistic young farmer.
Whet the whistle
SOUTH Gippsland beef producer Ross Batten will happily admit he runs a farming operation as a hard core business.
Quiet achiever
SUZANNE Lewis says keeping her sheep as stress-free as possible is more of an intuitive approach than scientific. And it’s one that seems to be working.
The magic of mushies
A MUSHROOM can double in size in 20 hours under the right conditions.
Andy hedges his bets
IT WAS after the last big drought in East Gippsland that the McNaughton family reassessed their wool enterprise and dramatically changed tack.
Prime beef with a personal touch
CUSTOMERS can usually smell Leanne Wheaton and her husband Gordon Shaw before they see them.
Sharon kicks goals
AUSSIE rules and wine would seem to have little in common. For viticulturist Sharon Hebbard, however, football has much to teach the grape industry.
Worm turns for soil saviours
IT’S in the really dry or really wet years that things stand out, The Weekly Times Coles 2015 Farmer of the Year Grant Sims says.
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