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Countrynews.com.au serves as the online counterpart to a highly successful weekly newspaper from the McPherson Media Group. Our ambition is to emerge as Australia's leading agricultural news website, creating a national digital hub that represents the voice of rural Australia. We aim to cover various aspects of rural life and business through dedicated sections.

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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.
FAREWELL | Almost a decade at The News has come to an end.

2 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Tyler Maher

How do you sum up almost a decade in the newsroom of a daily publication in just a few succinct words? Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content Impossibly, so for old time’s sake — I’m going to waffle. After over eight years at the Shepparton News — and nearly three-and-a-half as editor — the time has come to say goodbye.
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.
Bird’s the word

3 weeks ago | countrynews.com.au | Georgia Tacey

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority’s latest booklet won’t be ruffling any feathers. Hold tight - we’re checking permissions before loading more content The new publication, titled The Bird Book, showcases 30 woodland species, giving readers a change to get to know some of our local wildlife. Author and Goulburn Broken CMA project officer Janice Mentiplay-Smith said the booklet will help people learn more about the birds in the catchment.