AS Sheepvention is only just around the corner, volunteers have been called to help make it a huge success by offering a hand to assist on setup and pack up ‘Working Bee’ days.

VICTORIA’S commercial beekeepers who pollinate the majority of the state’s intensive agricultural crops from almonds to cherries, apples and many other orchard or field grown horticultural crops are generally well prepared for the entry of Varroa mite into Victoria within the next few months.

HAMILTON’S Melissa Tapper will open her Paris Olympics Women’s Singles campaign on Monday night (local time) when she faces Korean, Yubin Shin, in the round of 64.

THE Victoria Police Neighbourhood Policing Forum welcomes local services and community members to talk with police at the Hamilton Senior Citizens Club on Thursday, August 8 the arrival time from 5.15pm, commencement at 5.30pm and closing at 8.30pm.

Despite the welcome rain over the past few days, farmers in the Western District still face a few months of challenges ahead with the current ‘green drought’.

CONSISTENT chaser, Mighty Oasis, gets his best chance to win over the Casterton live hedges when he heads the weights in today’s $60,000 Moredun Hill Steeplechase over 3500m.

THE climatic conditions could not have been worse for braving the shave, but Team Lambert rallied the troops on Saturday and the Coleraine community responded in bucket loads.

LIVESTOCK producers have less than two weeks to consider and respond to an online survey presently open regarding the management of livestock predation and conservation of dingoes in Victoria.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD is facing four weeks of Mininera and District Netball Association A grade elimination finals before the home and away season finishes, with today’s clash against Lismore-Derrinallum.

HAMILTON Police have confirmed a Mitsubishi Triton ute and a tandem trailer were stolen from a farming property at Dunkeld on Monday night.