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10/12/2024

🌿 Farmers have experienced a stop-start harvest at Raywood due to late season storms. Craig Stone shares his story about farming in the challenging weather >>> bit.ly/49yEMBU

09/12/2024

📍 Recently retired Geelong Cats champion Tom Hawkins will join Nutrien Ag Solutions in the livestock division. See all the details >>> bit.ly/4ippgfx

09/12/2024

🌿 Farmers have been warned of the potential consequences of crop losses from spray drift, following a deluge of summer rain. 👉 bit.ly/4fbyVnd

09/12/2024

📍 The Weekly Times understands three members are weighing up whether they quit the council by the end of the year. Read on: bit.ly/4gh0vAw

09/12/2024

📍One of the best beef breeders in the industry is selling a 194ha farm which could be worth up to $37,000 a hectare. See the details 👉 bit.ly/3BseynK

09/12/2024

📌 FULL LIST: Americans and elite Aussie farming families lead a star-studded cast of rural property players who have spent big this year. See all the buyers and sellers >>> bit.ly/3Vwj77n

09/12/2024

🌧️ Discover which regions had the most rain this year and those which missed out on their season average. See our interactive graphic here >>> bit.ly/4gqnJUF

08/12/2024

📍 Analysts say a strengthening bilateral agreement between China and Brazil should have little impact on Australia’s beef exports. See the details >>> bit.ly/3Zy1VRB

08/12/2024

📍 ICYMI: New Zealand are looking to reinstate its livestock export trade after it was banned last year, with NFF president David Jochinke saying the move should raise alarm bells with the Albanese government. Read on: bit.ly/49kR3K7

08/12/2024

📍 Almost 60,000 Victorian hunters will have to pay 57 per cent more in game licence fees to harvest deer, duck and quail, after renewal notices were sent out. See the details: bit.ly/4gz3B2X

08/12/2024

📍 ICYMI: The Allan Government has broken promises to introduce legislation this year delivering radical animal welfare reforms and converting the Wombat and Lerderderg state forests into national parks. See the details: bit.ly/4fTByeD

07/12/2024

📌 ICYMI: The Victorian government has secretly stripped the CFA of almost $70m to fund other emergency agencies, as the United Firefighters Union strangles the supply of commanders and instructors needed to support volunteers. See the details 👇

The Victorian government has secretly stripped the CFA of almost $70m to fund other emergency agencies, as the United Firefighters Union strangles the supply of commanders and instructors needed to support volunteers.

07/12/2024

🚴‍♂️ Australia’s most prestigious one-day classic road cycling race is preparing a triumphant 2025 return with an Olympic gold medallist in contention for the major prize. See the details: bit.ly/3ODYgLD

06/12/2024

📍 Stuart Grainger has swapped the office for the paddock, and is now producing lamb and beef using regenerative practices in the Macedon Ranges. See how he does it >>> bit.ly/3VmWbHE

06/12/2024

📍 These summer rainfall events could return the market to its more traditional pattern of higher cents-a-kilogram price rates for lighter steers and heifers. 👉 bit.ly/4g23WLE

06/12/2024

📍 25-year-old Jared Lawrence is passionate about rural healthcare. And after seven years’ harvesting while studying medicine, is set to become a doctor for Dubbo. See his story 👉 bit.ly/3OGYKk2

06/12/2024

📌 A Sydney-based property investor has added another farm to his growing portfolio which now exceeds 16,000ha of NSW farmland. See the details >>> bit.ly/4gms4sa

06/12/2024

📌 FOCUS: With a unique first-cross lamb and a long-standing on-property sheep sale, the Starlings have never been afraid to innovate as part of their business growth strategy. Read their story >>> bit.ly/3VrhWpJ

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🐐 Dimboola’s Beck Walker and her energetic Australian miniature goats strive to help others. Her herd is now 57 strong, including seven new kids born just two weeks ago.⁠ See more pics of these cute kids here >>> bit.ly/4g4hYvF

🐑 “Fear of missing out” drove ewe-hungry buyers to bid up, especially on seconds and thirds at Naracoorte’s major sale, with ewes making $30 more than expected. See the full sale report >>> bit.ly/3YG4saA

☀️ Nominations for the 2024 Shine Awards are now open! If you know an outstanding regional woman that deserves to be recognised for the work that they do, head to this link to nominate them ✨️⁠ bit.ly/4dEIsTb Reporter: Madeleine Stuchbery

📍 Wangaratta Rovers have accepted a one-match ban for playing coach Sam Murray for this incident on Saturday. He will miss the second semi-final. See the details >>> bit.ly/3Mzrr1a Credit: Ovens and Murray Football Netball League

🏉 At 41 years-of-age and playing in his first grand final, Chris Willis has finally won his first premiership for Bullioh in the Upper Murray league. Hear from him after the game >>> bit.ly/3Z4S2uR

📌 Hundreds of farmers have rallied in Bendigo to protest against the Allan Government's approach to the Western Renewables Link, VNI West and proposed mineral sands mines. See the details here >>> bit.ly/4cBUv2H

Hundreds of frustrated farmers and regional Victorians are protesting Jacinta Allan in Bendigo, taking aim at green-energy transmission lines and a Big Build program focused on Melbourne.

It’s not a conundrum terribly many people would have to deal with: “I’ve just bought a disused psychiatric hospital, now what am I going to do with it?” This is something two entrepreneurial Brits Les Bone and Vanessa Stanley-Johns must surely have discussed back in 2016 after buying the old Charters Towers psychiatric hospital 140km southwest of Townsville: a sprawling 80ha, 1950s-designed complex that once housed 300 to 600 patients. Read the full story at The Weekly Times. #bushsummit

🏉 See the final address from Nullawil coach Darryl Wilson to his players in their match against Wycheproof-Narraport on the weekend. Hear from coaches, players and presidents on the day, ahead of their merger next season >>> bit.ly/3YR5NwR

Local grazier and butcher Frank Deshon rescued an Outback Qld town buying both the pub and the corner store and turned this tiny outpost into a must-visit tourist destination.⁣ ⁣ Hebel has a population of 20 and the Hebel Hotel is without question the town’s focal point, a rudimentary, old-fashioned structure with veranda, still with horse rails.⁣ ⁣ Read the full story at The Weekly Times. #bushsummit #queensland #roadtrip

It was an astonishing sight – just outside of Cobar an 80-tonne road train had speared off the highway, capsized and smashed sideways for 200m to come to an ungainly stop in a waterlogged paddock – we didn’t know if there was anyone alive or otherwise still in the cab. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3X8w6gH

Bendigo in Victoria held the grand title as ‘the richest city in the world’. But almost 150 years the town is embracing a gold rush of a different kind – golden Peanut Brittle. #bushsummit