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Innovation awarded

A Loddon Valley farmer has collected a state award for innovation in irrigation.

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State government pledges funding for Dookie College

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is hoping to muster support from the agriculture sector with an $11.2million education, training and workplace safety package.

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Infrastructure planned

The Victorian Opposition will invest $30million across four years in telecommunications infrastructure that improves mobile coverage and competition across Victoria if it is elected.

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Silos provide spot to reflect

Locals from the Devenish area gathered around the town’s towering silo on Sunday, November 4, to pay their respects and to honour the commitment of servicemen and women during World War I.

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Dairy code needs harsher penalties and ban on step downs, says industry body

Retrospective milk price step downs should be banned and contract disputes between farmers and processors handled through a thorough complaints and mediation process, according to Australia’s peak dairy lobby. Australian Dairy Industry Council...

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Project to boost perch population

A once common sight in wetlands across the southern Murray-Darling Basin, southern pygmy perch are facing dwindling numbers, but a new project is focused on boosting their population.

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Candidates under scrutiny

Barnaby Joyce is going through a tougher new vetting process to win Nationals preselection for the federal seat he already holds.

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Haystack and tyres burn

A toxic tyre and haystack blaze in Nanneella on November 4 sent plumes of black smoke into the air that could be seen from as far afield as Tongala.

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Freedom gets $1.7M

Freedom Foods has been funded by the Victorian Government to the tune of $1.7million to assist with the completion of an $8.6million investment in on-site rooftop solar, voltage optimisation and battery storage.

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Joint effort to get outdoors

Promoting the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time enjoying nature is the focus of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between Goulburn Valley Health and Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority recently.

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Free treatment for disease

Australians with a rare disease that can result in life-threatening complications will have free access to a new medicine, saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

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Crocwise warnings ignored

A saltwater crocodile almost 5m long has been caught in a Northern Territory river where people regularly swim.

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Changes planned for Stanhope solar farm

Development of a planned solar farm and storage battery for Stanhope has faced a hurdle after GloBird Energy requested to amend its application.

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Trial to save eagles

High-tech sensors designed to stop endangered wedge-tailed eagles being killed by wind farms will be trialled in remote Tasmania.

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NDIS is not robbed: PM

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has angrily dismissed claims money meant for the National Disability Insurance Scheme will be redirected to a drought fund.

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Wandering brumbies concern

Drivers on the roads near Barmah National Park have been warned to beware of drought-hit brumbies wandering roads in search of food.

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Coomboona Dairies sold

A company associated with Freedom Foods Group has purchased the troubled Coomboona Dairy operation near Undera, once jointly owned by Australian entrepreneur Gerry Harvey. Freedom says it will use the relationship with the large dairy to generate...

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New equipment targets weed seeds

Key developments are set to bolster harvester-integrated weed seed destructor technology, ensuring growers are even better prepared for the 2018 harvest and beyond.

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Would you drink this?

Landcare’s Sandy MacKenzie has questioned the progress of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan over the last 10 years as he congratulated the Productivity Commission on their report into the controversial plan. Mr MacKenzie, from Avenel, explained why he...

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Farmers form new dairy co-op

Australia’s latest dairy co-op — Eureka Dairy — has been approved by the Australian Competition and Consumer commission and is looking for suppliers. ACCC approval gives it the legal governance required to operate. Interim director, Steve...

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