AGRICULTURE Victoria has widened its permit system for moving bees to include anyone bringing bees or bee products into any part of the state
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Jobs, skills summit
THE National Farmers’ Federation was addressing chronic labour shortages in the farming sector at the Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra recently. The NFF
Farm project uniting communities
By MICHELLE SLATER WEST Gippsland and outer-east African communities have come together to create a farming collective where locals can learn more about traditional
Technology and agriculture going hand in hand
A GROUP of fledgling Victorian tech entrepreneurs have taken a step closer to delivering ag-sector technology, with the launch of Rocket Seeder’s AgTech Seeds
Resources to deal with diseases
THE state government is establishing portable sample testing and mobile incident centres to bolster the state’s response to any emergency animal disease outbreak. The
Plan to phase out caged eggs
By MICHELLE SLATER CAGED eggs could be phased out in the next 10 to 15 years under a new set of animal welfare guidelines