Last Updated: October 23, 2015

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88km will be a barrow of fun

PUSHING a wheelbarrow for 88km might seem like a crazy idea, but a town in North East Victoria is giving it a go.

Drought loans open

Agriculture minister visits Birchip

GOVERNMENTS resolve dispute to make drought loans available to struggling Victorian farmers.

Action stations

Action stations

THE dry is tightening its grip on southeast Australia.

Fishermen partner with Coles, WWF

 David Guillot unloading the catch from his deep-sea trawler 'Lady Cheryl' at Lakes Entrance in Victoria. The price of fuel i...

SOUTH east fishermen have teamed up with Coles and WWF-Australia to help protect seabirds, seals and overfished species.

Water bursts through $300

STREAM DAMAGE

SALES of Victorian irrigation water shouldered aside the $300 barrier this week.

Scramble to define ‘free range’ hens

Mount Roland Free Range Eggs

DEBATE continues over how many hens free-range egg farmers should stock per hectare.

Antique interest

BOORT CLEARING SALE

IT was like an episode of Antiques Roadshow at Boort as keen collectors descended on the Victorian town in search of that special curio.

Power to ASIC

Timbercorp plantations near Orford in southwest Victoria. Sign.

ASIC will be given greater power to ban or force changes to potentially damaging financial products .

Road to recovery

Road to recovery

ABOUT 65 per cent of pears and 47 per cent of apples hit by hail during a recent Goulburn Valley hailstorm were damaged.

Bay fishing to end

Fish family

IT WILL cost the Victorian Government more to end commercial net fishing in Port Phillip Bay than first thought.

Adventure sport’s grand entrance

Adventure sport’s grand entrance

ADVENTURE junkies will converge on Lakes Entrance this weekend to run, bike and paddle their way across East Gippsland.

Change to dairy service

DAY of DAIRY

VICTORIA’S  dairy extension service won't cost industry body Dairy Australia any extra next year.

Boom and dust at Balranald

BURKE and Wills travelled across the blue bush-studded plains northwest of Balranald 155 years ago.

Honours go to Echuca

ECHUCA’S One & All Inclusion Project has been crowned the Community Group of the Year.

Shear hard work in the skin game

LISA Virgona is the world’s only female mulesing contractor.

Royal Geelong Show

The Royal Geelong Show dairy competition set to expand after entries lifted more than 800 per cent.

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Commander is stable in rough

SIDE-by-side vehicles continue to enjoy sales growth in Australia as a more versatile alternative to four-wheel bikes.

We’re under the pump

dry weather

IRRIGATORS are feeling the heat as the price of temporary water edges toward $300 a megalitre.

No time to lose on farm aid

No time to lose on farm aid

​VICTORIAN and Riverina farmers are entering a critical stage.

Exporters work to stop ill treatment

 President of the National Farmers' Federation Duncan Fraser (blue shirt) pictured in Darwin with Northern Territory Cattleme...

THERE are more restrictions in place to protect Australian livestock.

Are you there minister? It’s GOD

Are you there minister? It’s GOD

POLICYMAKERS take note: Coveted commodities, ducks included, are rarely mass produced.

Pucker up

Local food hero pic, RENMARK

THE Kohlers believe a little zing is a good thing and are uprooting apricots in favour of the zesty cumquat.

Editor's Choice

Live export bid rejected

Australian Livestock Exporters' Council Festival of the Sacrifice in the Middle East

A NEW body to oversee live animal exports and animal welfare is unlikely to get off the ground.

Road funding Road warrior drives poll

Road warrior

A WESTERN District woman has become a modern-day road warrior, leading a campaign to repair Victorian roads.

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Bingham's Midwest 60-foot harvester front

The MidWest Durus Premium 60-foot (18m) draper front owned by Bingham Harvesting has been at work in Bolac White wheat in Skipton, Victoria. The Weekly Times Justin Law caught up with Dan Bingham to find out how the worlds biggest header front was performing.

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Special delivery

A light plane dropped chips to fans at the Worksafe Game of the Month on Sunday in the Mid Gippsland Football League match between Thorpdale and Mirboo North.

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Japan beef blast-off

Charlton Feedlot. Charlton. Cattle.

THE strengthening US dollar has proved a boon for Australian exports of beef into Japan.

Sharefarmers locked out

Sharefarmers locked out

A LACK of clarity around a potentially large southwest dairy investment is hurting sharefarmers.

Payment pressure

Grain Harvest

THE move to shorter payment terms by several large grain companies could lead to downward pressure on price.

Hawkesdale, October 22: Good buying

Hawkesdale, October 22: Good buying

NINETY rams sold from 125 offered at the Shellal Poll Dorset sale at Hawkesdale.

Wodonga, October 22: Small market

Wodonga cattle sale

WODONGA defied the softening trend for store cattle by posting a solid sale today.

Latest livestock sales

Latest livestock sales

THIS week’s cattle and sheep sale dates.

Commander is stable in rough

Mallee Machinery Field Days

SIDE-by-side vehicles continue to enjoy sales growth in Australia as a more versatile alternative to four-wheel bikes.

Shed clean-up home and hosed

Shed clean-up home and hosed

THIS heavy duty vacuum cleaner from Aussie Pumps is designed to handle wet or dry clean-up jobs around the shed.

Sales up despite low confidence

Martin Warren. Harvest.

COMMENT: AS I write, mid-30s temperatures and strong northerly winds are diminishing the outlook for many Victorian farmers.

Riders light up at Candlebark

THE Lancefield fires nearby did not deter riders from competing at Candlebark Horse Trials.

Weekly Times Horse news

Olympians get crowd jumping

Olympians get crowd jumping

THE Interschool Show Jumping celebrated their season finale at Ayr Hill, Clyde North, with an Olympian Challenge.

Champions aplenty

Champions aplenty

THE Australian Sports Pony Registry’s Open Equestrain Australia Dressage competition was held at Werribee on Saturday.

Grants a shot in the arm

Black Powder shooters

THE Victorian Government is helping Victoria’s shooting sports clubs update tired clubrooms and build new facilities.

Drought loans open

Agriculture minister visits Birchip

GOVERNMENTS resolve dispute to make drought loans available to struggling Victorian farmers.

Don’s poll position

Derby Downs annual ram sale

POLL Dorset breeder Don McKinnon is never far from the winner’s circle at a show.

Shear hard work in the skin game

LISA Virgona is the world’s only female mulesing contractor.

Weekly Times Travel News

Sleep soundly amid beauty

Sleep soundly amid beauty

LIKE anyone who has experienced the dramatic, terrifying horror of being in the midst of a raging bushfire, I’m always apprehensive it may happen again.

Delicious tomatoes

Delicious tomatoes

THE most delicious tomato I’ve ever grown was also among the most unusual.

Time for a killing spree

Time for a killing spree

SPRING is a time of soft, young shoots and, unfortunately, attacks from sap-sucking pests that feed from them.

Beautiful, versatile eggplant

CL Food Shoot

WHETHER you feature it in ratatouille, moussaka or the Middle Eastern dip babaghanouj, there is no doubting the popularity of the eggplant across the world.

Lovely soup weather

CL Food Page

A STEAMING bowl of soup can be a big turn-off when the temperature starts to climb, but chilled soups are a different story altogether.

Against the rules

CL Food Page

IN MOST polite circles, the union of fish and cheese has long been frowned upon, but in some culinary circumstances, rules can comfortably be broken.

Carrot cake such a grate idea

THE blokes of Rutherglen can hold their heads high after the successful men-only bake off competition.

Weekly Times Back Paddock

Three’s company for Tara

Three’s company for Tara

BACK Paddock is amazed at the ability of the dedicated selfie taker to fit their animal friends into frame.

Laughing gear: Holiday

Laughing gear

AFTER enduring a freezing winter in Hobart, Bill departed for a holiday on the Gold Coast .

Flushed with success

Flushed with success

IT’S enough to give you the heebie-jeebies.

A China time forgot

China

URUMQI probably isn’t a place many people have heard of.

Peaks a sheer delight

Peaks a sheer delight

WALKERS in Spain mostly ‘do’ the Camino, a path that crosses the north from France to Santiago de Compostela.

Fortified by the past

 Tastes of Rutherglen. Grapes. Rutherglen winery.

MANDY Jones points to the ceiling of her cellar door.

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