Agriculture

Partnership tackles weeds in region

LODDON Plains Landcare Network, Parks Victoria Inglewood, and Bendigo TAFE agriculture staff and students last week were out tackling weeds. They focused efforts on Mount Korong Nature Conservation Reserve and private land. Led by Parks Victori...

24 Apr 2024

Knowledge decades in the making

WHEELHOUSE AGnVet have proudly been serving the agricultural communities of Bridgewater and across the Loddon Shire and adjoining districts for many decades. The Wheelhouse family supported the area in fertiliser and freight before stepping into...

24 Apr 2024

Network expansion lifts regional enthusiasm

BIRCHIP Cropping Group’s Young Farmer Network was rapidly expanding and growing enthusiasm across the region, said senior manager of extension and communications Grace Hosking. “In our role as the Vic Hub’s North West Broadacre Node, BCG has...

23 Apr 2024

Water buy up: Coliban gets farm probe property

By CHRIS EARL PART of controversial Avicenna Farm at Newbridge will be turned into a waste processing facility. Coliban Water will construct a biosolids base on the the 613-acre property after buying the land at the weekend. It says biosolids are...

23 Apr 2024

Irrigation season’s end looms in region

THE 2023-2024 season for Loddon irrigators will end eon May 15. Goulburn-Murray Water water delivery services general manager Warren Blyth said it was crucial irrigators planned for the off-season. “Works such as weed treatment, desilting, and...

19 Apr 2024

Trucks driving growth of shire’s agricultural show

POST-COVID growth of Boort’s annual show is predicted to continue this year as the volunteer committee says plans for the October celebration of country life are well advanced. Madeleine Scott, last week re-elected for her fifth term as president...

17 Apr 2024

Geotechnical surveys begin along corridor path

ANOTHER round of surveys along the VNI West corridor started last month. Transmission Company Victoria told stakeholders on Monday that geotechnical surveys would determine geological conditions across the corridor. “The results of these surveys...

16 Apr 2024

Politics & Council

Push grows for transmission line insurance, firefighting details

Politics & Council

TRANSMISSION Company Victoria has faced pressure from communities in the VNI renewable energy transmission line path for details on the project’s insurance. Community reference group members used their last meeting of 2023 to push for the...

16 Apr 2024

Long road to wine trade recovery

By CHRIS EARL AUSTRALIAN wineries face a long road to recover ground in the lucrative Chinese market after the lifting of tariffs last week. China put heavy tariffs on imported Australian wine in 2020- that wiped out much of the $10 billion annual...

14 Apr 2024

Time has arrived to canvas new options

LOCAL PERSPECTIVE By CHRIS EARL THIRTEEN months have passed since the dramatic change of route was announced for what has become a highly controversial VNI West renewable energy transmission line project. Proponents have made tweaks of a sort to...

12 Apr 2024

Speedier skills lift efficiency of shearing shed hands

MORE efficient shearing hands trained at industry workshops are bringing benefits to Loddon sheds as the sheep industry navigates a depressed market. Glenalbyn’s Graham Nesbit last week wrapped up March shearing, putting 3100 poll Merinos through...

10 Apr 2024

Winery presses juices after good harvest

VINEYARDS across the Loddon are wrapping up vintage and preparing to showcase local wines at a major regional festival. Black Wallaby Wines’ Dave Lawson said his yield had been above average and grapes were now being prepared for pressing and...

10 Apr 2024

Katherine promotes local eucalyptus provinance

NATIVE trees and shrubs of local provinance were showcased on National Eucalypt Day last Saturday. Inglewood Wildflowers’ Kathryn Gillett was part of Loddon celebrations at Inglewood’s Eucalyptus Distillery Museum that attracted visiting groups...

04 Apr 2024

Broad pushes for Plan B review action

THE State Government should deliver on its commitment to review Professor Bruce Mountain’s Plan B alternative to the proposed VNI West overhead transmission line project. Nationals MP Gaelle Broad told Parliament last week that many residents...

31 Mar 2024