Geoff Adams

Victoria

Rural Group Editor at Shepparton News

Rural Group Editor at Country News

rural journalist struggling with information overload. Views my own.

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Articles

No answers yet on dead stock disposal

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

Northern Victorian farmers are facing a winter with limited facilities for the handling of dead stock. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content In March the region’s largest knackery at Stanhope announced it would no longer collect dead stock from farms.
Brumby sanctuary under threat

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

The Barmah brumby sanctuary looks like it will close unless it gets a financial lifeline in the next month. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content The Barmah Brumby Preservation Group, which rescues and re-homes wild horses from Barmah National Park, says it has fodder debts of $12,000 and the lease on the sanctuary property at the edge of the park will be due in June.
Candidates announced

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

While there appears to be considerable competition for the electorates of Bendigo and Indi, the Nicholls electorate — based around Shepparton and Echuca — could muster only seven candidates. The Family First party and One Nation are targeting many of the conservative-held electorates. The NSW division of Riverina (based around Wagga) will have one of the biggest ballot papers around Australia, with 13 candidates.
Irrigation rationing continues

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

Rationing of irrigation deliveries in the Boort, Dingee and Calivil areas is continuing and may not be lifted before the end of the season on May 15. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content About 370 irrigators have been impacted by the rationing due to unusually high demand. Goulburn-Murray Water incident controller Mark Bailey said irrigation demand had remained steady in recent weeks.
Tall tale of a dam and a jumbuck

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

Waltzing Matilda tells the story of a swagman and a jumbuck, but Lima East farmer Gary Oborne has his own yarn about a lamb, not a swaggie, who jumped into a dam trying to escape. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content He was trying to round up his lambs for market recently, when one of them persistently hid from view. “I was following a group of them around the paddock, when he broke away and took off.
No answers yet on dead stock removal

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

Northern Victorian farmers are facing a winter with limited facilities for the handling of dead stock. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content In March the region’s largest knackery at Stanhope announced it would no longer collect dead stock from farms. The VFF and UDV have been meeting with affected producers, rendering companies, and local government councils to try to find a solution to the problem which is causing stress and cost to producers.
Milk price step-up from Fonterra

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

The VFF UDV has welcomed Fonterra’s recent step-up in farm gate milk prices as a positive move for suppliers, but cautions that prices remain below global benchmarks and highlights the continued need for robust protections under the Mandatory Dairy Code of Conduct.
Water savings project under fire

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

An environmental group is taking the Federal Government to court to stop an engineering project designed to recover water for the Murray-Darling Basin. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content The Victorian Murray Floodplain Restoration Project consists of nine projects located along the Murray River that aim to return a more natural flood regime to a total of about 14,000 hectares of high-ecological-value Murray River floodplains in Victoria.
Sheep prices climb at Bendigo

3 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

Heavy ewes sold up to $225 a head at the Bendigo saleyards on March 31. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content The National Livestock Reporting Service noted that good lines of heavy mutton cost processors between 460¢ and 550¢/kg. Any big crossbred ewes were well supported by exporters at $160 to a top of $222/head to trend over 500¢/kg cwt. A pen of extra heavy, bare shorn Merino ewes estimated around 38-40kg cwt topped at $225/head.
Overseas Jersey breeders to visit northern Victoria

3 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Geoff Adams

Jersey farmers and enthusiasts from four continents will be visiting northern Victoria this month as part of the 2025 World Jersey Conference. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content Jersey Australia will host the conference for the first time since 2011. The three-week event will attract visitors from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Jersey Islands, South Africa and Colombia.