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Too many friends, not enough wives

By Jacko, son of Col Curmudgeon Making new friends can be dangerous. Especially when you are on Farmer Wants a Wife and the object is to create five matches out of 40 contenders. As the Channel 7 series goes on, something mysterious is developing...

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Farmer wants a crew member

What do you do when the Farmer Wants a Wife, but the wife wants a television production crew member? Well, stay tuned because we’re about to find out, after Karlana decided she might prefer to spend some time with one of the television team...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Lessons to be learnt, but will we learn them?

It has been heartening to see how border communities are working together to get sensible outcomes for the wider region as the impacts of government decisions on COVID-19 bear down. Local government, media and other community leaders are all coming...

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‘Wives’ rebel against herd approach

The sisterhood is taking charge in a neat twist on a show which has 20 women chasing the affections of five men, in Farmer Wants a Wife

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Competition heats up for Farmers wanting a wife

The 20 girls lining up for Farmer Wants a Wife were faced with the realisation that it is a competition, in the third instalment of the new series. And just like a horse race, there was a bit of jostling, nipping and positioning as the competitors...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Too many questions and not enough answers in water report

Anyone looking for some definitive answers to complaints about water trading will be disappointed in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s interim report into water markets. The 540-page report, assembled over almost 12 months...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Adapting our food systems to meet future challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting just about everything that we do, including the operation and sustainability of our agri-food systems globally, nationally and regionally. The sight of empty supermarket shelves is not something that we have been...

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An outbreak of magic in Farmer Wants a Wife

By Jacko, son of Col Curmudgeon Spoiler alerts, whatever, you know how this works. It’s not Love Island, but the second night of Farmer Wants a Wife just had to find a bit of drama. Admittedly, it wasn’t a screamer. No passive-aggressive...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Farmer wants a wife

If you’re gonna run a decent farm, you need a good fertility rate, so on that basis Farmer Wants a Wife has the goods. The ‘unreality’ show boasts nine marriages and 19 babies from the previous nine Australian series — so by...

Geoff Adams
Opinion

Hard yards are one thing, but this is outrageous

I hate to admit it, but one of me grandsons is a useless lump. In fact, on a scale of one to 10, this lazy good-for-nothing does not even register a blimp. Fortunately, to look at him, it is clear his inherent inertia does not come from the...

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G-MW is keeping the bottom line in check

As the largest rural water authority in the country serving the nation’s most extensive irrigated agricultural region, Goulburn-Murray Water manages assets spanning 68,000 kilometres across northern Victoria. Valued at more than...

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Be ‘alert’ to alternative farming opportunities

Now I know there are lots of new things around in farming these days. There’s this guy in Victoria’s Gippsland I met at the High Country Sales the other week. He farms goldfish. Don’t laugh at me, I’m fair dinkum. And not just goldfish, he also does...

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Foil tops, feckless youth and fabulous memories

As a tacker I remember being awestruck at the sight of a bottle of milk with a foil cap. I had gone to the city to spend the holidays with the maternal (read non-farming) grandparents. To the little Curmudgeon, that was really cutting-edge...

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Murray-Darling Basin royal commission must happen

Robert Watson Numurkah I am responding to the assertion that Federal Member for Nicholls Damian Drum recently made, that the Liberal Party was holding back reform to water policy. May I remind you Damian, that in both state and federal parliaments...

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You pack of bludgers. Your country needs you...to work

Far be it from me to call a lot of those city folk bludgers. But here goes. A lot of city folk are bludgers. Now I am prepared to admit every one of us is at a disadvantage, but there is light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. And when Canberr...

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Want to whinge? Then let’s get the full facts

Want to give a farmer a bad name? Then put him on national TV — let’s say give him a fair slice of 60 minutes worth of prime time — and let him bleat about how the world is treating him. Fair dinkum, doesn’t anyone get it? The prevailing...

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Free trade? More like a free smack in the face

The other day I heard the front bar big mouth espousing his latest opinions on the free trade agreement with China. “Free trade,” he sneered. “Nothing free about this trade, except for the Chinese.” Now I normally take his sermons...

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Fighting for affordable water

Chris Brooks, Barooga, NSW I would like to clarify some comments made by Federal Member for Farrer Sussan Ley following media coverage of my decision to try and shake up the cosy political arrangements that are presently costing our nation billions...

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Echuca-Moama border leaders unite to get restrictions changed

CAMPASPE Shire and Murray River Council mayors and chief executives have joined forces in an unprecedented show of strength to convince the NSW Government to ease its latest tough border restrictions. Since the new public health orders came into...

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SPC still in organic milk deal

The owners of fruit processing business SPC are continuing to develop a debt for equity swap in an organic dairy business, despite supply problems created by the collapse of an organic milk supplier.

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Face masks mandatory for farmers

From midnight on Sunday, regional Victorians are now required to wear face masks — including farmers. Farmers whose family home is also their workplace are only required to wear a mask if they have staff coming and going from the...

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Young Leitchville farmer wins dairy scholarship

Leitchville’s Mitchell Lumsden is the latest Lallemand Animal Nutrition and Australian Fodder Industry Association GenAg scholarship winner. “We are not dairy farmers anymore; we are crop growers who milk cows,” he said. The 22-year-old...

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