Fruit sold below cost of production | Country News
Nov 22, 2024 · Transparency sought in fruit grower-supermarket relationships. The major supermarkets sometimes paid fruit and vegetable growers below the cost of production, suppliers told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry recently.
Government coy on PALM numbers | Country News
Nov 15, 2024 · The number of Australia's PALM workers employed in agriculture has dropped by 20 per cent in the 12 months to September, 2024.
Easement, not land purchase, says NSW Government | Country News
Nov 18, 2024 · A NSW Government department has told irrigators that easement acquisition is one option under plans to increase environmental flows along some Riverina rivers.
Michelle Payne returns to Rochester | Country News
Oct 9, 2024 · Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne hasn’t forgotten the farming community she grew up in.
Wagyus go under the hammer | Country News
Nov 18, 2024 · Cohuna sale to focus on polled Wagyus. Wagyu breeders Heather and Russell Crichton will offer 80 females and eight bulls for sale on November 28.
Dreams do come true | Country News
Nov 22, 2024 · More than 120 cows across 17 herds were presented in the annual Northern District Jersey Breeders Club On-Farm Challenge.
All the action from Elmore Field Days | Country News
Oct 3, 2024 · Brothers Hayden, 8, and Cody Guillot, 6, on a Case II Prime-Lift. Their mother Donna said they had made the move last year from Melbourne to their two-and-a-half-hectare property in Wedderburn, where the family is thinking of establishing a Christmas tree farm.
National saleyard survey results are in | Country News
Nov 22, 2024 · The annual MLA survey shows sheep numbers at Victorian saleyards rose by 14.8 per cent in 2023-24. Photo by None
Special protection sought for Murray-Darling | Country News
Nov 14, 2024 · A science committee is recommending special protection for two sections of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Plibersek points to water responses | Country News
Nov 15, 2024 · Water stakeholders have challenged Federal Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek’s announcement of “1000 responses” to her invitation for water buybacks.