Couple brings rare cattle breed to the Macedon Ranges
A commitment to sustainability and a focus on regenerative agriculture has this couple growing the population of this rare British breed.
Victoria
Red letter day for ratepayers
Rural councils are stepping up their campaign against the rebranded fire services levy. Here’s their latest move.
Power bills to soar for Victorians
The companies building Victoria’s transmission projects will recover the cost by passing the charges onto households and businesses. See the figures.
Farmers to rally over rural land rights
Farmers, landholders and community groups will gather outside Parliament to express their anger at what is “an onerous and non-Australian way of doing things”.
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American investors snap up huge Aussie chicken farmer
Australia’s largest chicken meat farmer has been sold to a foreign buyer by the Aware Super pension fund, days after securing a 300,000-bird farm near Geelong.
Bendigo Bank to close five regional Victorian branches
Once the only bank opening branches in country Australia, Bendigo Bank is now planning to close five regional Victorian outlets. Here’s the latest.
Woman dies in southwest Victorian quad bike crash
Victoria Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal quad bike crash where a woman was killed.
Bid to merge Victorian fisheries and hunting agencies
Fishers and hunters say the Allan Government has flagged merging Game Management and Victorian Fisheries Authorities into a new outdoors agency.
Canadians, Victorian family sell cropping farms to local buyers
Wimmera farms spanning more than 800ha have changed hands after they were sold by a Canadian investor and a renowned farming family.
‘Lives are about to change forever’: Farmer fury at new mine
Local farmers are “furious, shocked and disappointed” after one of the world’s largest rare earth mines was approved near a tiny Victorian town. See the latest.
Cooked cattle agent fraudulently pockets almost $235k
A Pakenham livestock agent falsely claimed certain cattle were bred on specific properties in Gippsland to make them eligible for export to China, fraudulently obtaining almost $235k.
Govt says no to local government rates review
The state government has rejected a recommendation to review the local government rating systems, aimed at ensuring farmers and rural property owners aren’t being unfairly burdened.
Calls for rates to be put on hold
Farmers have put forward a case to the Victorian government, asking for drought-hit landholders to be spared from paying council rates for 12 months.
Farmers to lock out transmission companies, despite threat of fines
Landholders who face having their properties carved up by new transmission lines say they will lock out transmission companies, despite the Allan Government’s looming threat of $12,210 penalties
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