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Andrew Mole

Farmers frustrated at federal decisions

FARMERS in northwest Victoria are ricocheting from the Federal Budget to the Federal Election – and not too many of them are happy about how either one is going. Issues such as the instant asset write-off, diesel rebate, and transport and energy...

04 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Guidance on sheep chemical treatments

The wool market has enough challenges without blindly going ahead and creating some of its own. Which is why AWI program manager animal wellbeing and industry resilience, Carolina Diaz, said it’s critical woolgrowers understand and...

08 Mar 2025

North West Farmer

Planning for the future, now and in the long-term

WITH the cost of farming per hectare at an all-time high, Australian graingrowers are facing increasing pressure to make informed, strategic business decisions. The balance between maximising production and ensuring profitability has...

08 Mar 2025

Livestock

Ouyen sheep sale stays strong

OUYEN’S sheep sale on Thursday has maintained its strong start to the season, with another big yarding of more than 14,000 head. Exchange manager Colin Mole said that included 8491 lambs and 6002 mutton (totalling 14,493) selling to...

14 Feb 2025

North West Farmer

Tractor sales going tougher than harvest

RUNNING into an erratic harvest season – including across Northwest Victoria – the Tractor and Machinery Association has reported November has been another difficult month for tractor sales. TMA executive director Gary Northover...

03 Jan 2025

North West Farmer

Mad mates on a mission

HERE are four country boys with a very clear message for Canberra – and it’s all about them being mad about the Murray Darling. Because that’s what has united Doug Fehring, Geoff Kendell, Lindsay Schultz and Mal Johnson to try to...

28 May 2024

North West Farmer

Birchip Cropping Group Honours Long-Time Members with Life Memberships

LIFE membership has that ring of service about it, but when just two couples can contribute a combined 128 years to a single organisation, you get the feeling they deserve some sort of recognition. In the case of Birchip Cropping...

04 Mar 2024

News

VFF war widens after dairyfarmers fight erupts

THE besieged Victorian Farmers Federation is now under attack on the dairy front. Federal Court Justice Jonathan Beach is expected to hand down his ruling on whether the VFF will have to stage an extraordinary general meeting which...

08 Dec 2023

North West Farmer

Taking a wider look at area weed management

Mallee Sustainable Farming has joined a national project into weed and herbicide resistance – particularly along fence lines, roads and channels. Project leader Rick Llewellyn says herbicide resistant genes do not follow the rules – or borders...

25 Mar 2023

Wine Grapes

Supply glut leaves red-wine growers facing a big 2023 hit

SUNRAYSIA wine-grape growers are now waiting for the blow to fall here after industry giant Accolade Wines told cabernet and shiraz growers in SA’s Riverland to mothball their vines or switch varieties. In a statement at the weekend...

08 Sep 2022

Field Days

Speedy recovery as Mallee Field Days attracts huge crowds

Mallee Machinery Field Days are not just back, they are on the cusp of a whole new era to financially underpin ongoing success. Field Days’ secretary Matt Brady says from 2023 there will be its first major sponsorships – and they have...

04 Aug 2022

North West Farmer

Finding future farmers as they find themselves

It wasn’t exactly selling ice to the Eskimos, but it took a move from her family farm at Blighty in NSW to, well, to a family farm at Lalbert, in Victoria, to convince Zara Macdonald she wanted to be, well, to be a farmer. Having just finished Year...

03 Aug 2022