AUTUMN firewood collection season is open and will run until 30 June, 2023, but woodcutters are reminded of their strict obligations to wildlife and habitats, as well as protected Aboriginal sites, when they head out for a woodcut.

WILD Bear Herefords is based in Paris Creek – about 30 minutes from the central business district of Adelaide – but have developed a number of repeat clients in the south-west of Victoria over the past four years.

THE liquid ‘drinking’ milk market remains of key importance to Australia’s dairy sector – with improved domestic retail pricing and opportunities for further export growth – according to a newly-released Rabobank industry report.

FARMERS are calling on Treasurer Jim Chalmers to urgently rule out changes to the Fuel Tax Credits Scheme ahead of the Federal Budget.

HOW safe is your farm? That’s the question RACV and Neighbourhood Watch want Victorian farmers to answer as part of the new How safe is my farm initiative.

FROM hand stooking hay and blade shears, wagons and horse drawn ploughs to raised boards, electric presses and hand pieces, and computerised tractors with satellite navigation. Has there ever been a period of greater change in farming?

RISK management is second nature to farmers. We mitigate risks every day; we slash fire breaks to prevent or contain fires, we vaccinate our stock to avoid disease, we fix the boundary fence to prevent stock getting on the road.

THE Bureau of Meteorology earlier this week updated its long-term climate outlook with a return to average rainfall conditions more likely in the south-west after a very wet spring in 2022.

NOTHING lasts forever and although generational change might sometimes seem to be almost an illusion because it arrives so slow, the stark reality is farms and the families that run them and pass them on to their children must one day make the decision to begin and go through that transition.

THERE has been a livestock saleyard in Warrnambool since 1883, with the current site in Caramut Road established in 1970.