Horticulture
Q&A with Tony Burke
FEDERAL Agriculture Minister Tony Burke, spoke to LESLIE WHITE about managed investment schemes and other challenges
Promo push for frozen veg
A NEW campaign to promote Australian frozen vegetables and make it easier for consumers to buy Australian grown was launched in Tasmania last week.
Irrigation upgrade stoush
THE Federal Government has warned it will not deliver its $1 billion for stage two of Victoria's northern irrigation modernisation project until it gains guaranteed access to water savings from its investment.
Dam bid stirs up Coalition
DEBATE on whether to build a dam on a tributary of the Mitchell River in East Gippsland is again threatening to expose old tensions in the Victorian Coalition.
Water flows; Rann claims credit
VICTORIAN and NSW irrigators are set to gain access to one million megalitres of water due to flow down the Barwon-Darling River to the Menindee Lakes this autumn.
Plea to help save lakes
THE Australian Conservation Foundation is calling for donations to buy 200 megalitres of water for the Hattah Lakes.
A $500,000 campaign to promote frozen vegetables aims to maintain Tasmania's dwindling vegetable-processing industry.
Rain can cloud your thinking
"I RECKON it's going to be 1983 all over again, great, general early-autumn rain".
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Tractor was 'too cheap'
A GIPPSLAND farmer is suing Case New Holland's finance arm and a Trafalgar machinery dealer over a repossessed tractor.
