Top 12 of '12 - The Year in Review
DPI cuts hit rural Victoria
THE Victorian Coalition's May budget announcement of cuts to DPI staff and offices closures confirmed fears in the ag community.
ATV safety battle after deadly year
POLICE, government and families despaired as ATVs continued to kill regional Australians this year.
Banksia collapse hits hard
THE collapse of Banksia rocked regional investors and communities when news broke the group had gone into receivership owing $660m.
Farmers' image under fire
IF THE measure of an ad campaign's success is to get people talking, Murray Goulburn was a stand-out.
Live exports: The rise of Lyn White
THE live export debate has only continued to flare since the suspension of cattle to Indonesia in June 2011.
Politics floods MDB debate
THE Murray Darling Basin Plan proved once and for all that the water debate in Australia is all about politics.
Hunt finally over for big cats
VICTORIA'S big cat hunt officially started and finished this year but the mystery is still very much alive.
Diesel crisis hits Victoria
STATE-WIDE diesel shortages almost saw the Victorian harvest season come to a complete halt earlier this month.
Grain growers cash in on US drought
THE worst drought in the US in 50 years has underpinned global grain prices in the past 12 months.
AWI flock funding controversy
A YEAR after the controversial decision to discontinue funding for a major Merino genetics project, industry tensions still simmer.
Foreign investment debate rages
FOREIGN investment in Australian farmland continued to hog headlines in 2012.
- Devondale ads backlash
- Boy ducks off for ute ride
- Vernon sets new goals
- Puppy farm raid in Gippsland
- Alpine grazing fight in court
- Earthquake shakes Victoria
- China set to claim land in northern Aus
- One-armed Hobbs back playing footy
- Pilot killed in Hallston plane crash
- Is Lyn White right?
- Fevola commits to Pigeons
- Boating costs to soar
- Diesel shortage to ease
- Diesel shortage hits Australia Post
- Banksia fund collapses
- Not all romance on Farmer Wants a Wife
- Loved up on Farmer Wants a Wife
- Radiation tests for monster bluefin tuna
- Government defends big cat hunt
- Gillard 'was sacked'
- Driver killed as truck rolls on Hume
- Storms to dump up to 100mm
- Lost ring found in Caldermeade calf
- Two die in plane crash
