GIPPSLANDERS are being encouraged to ‘chow-down’ on sea snail at the Wild Harvest Seafood Festival in Mallacoota this month. A special event will celebrates
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Survey points to dairy skill shortage
Michelle Slater ONE-in-four dairy farmers can’t find labour, according to Dairy Australia survey figures, with the issue compounded by COVID and a nationwide skills
Weir saves mine but floods farms
Michelle Slater AUTHORITIES will work with local farmers to assess the impacts of heavy flooding associated with a weir that was built as part
The king of carrots
By Michelle Slater A STAPLE root vegetable was put in the spotlight at the Sale Show last month when keen cooks put their skills
New fines for farm trespassers are in
By MICHELLE SLATER FARM trespassers will now be slugged with fines of up to $55000 under new biosecurity laws introduced in Victoria last month.
Nuke study call
By PHILIP HOPKINS A FORMER scientist with the State Electricity Commission, the Latrobe Valley’s Ray Burgess, has scathingly attacked AGL’s plan to close Loy