LOCAL girl Jackie Elliot brought home the bacon on Tuesday, June 20, at the Kondinin Group and ABC Rural 2023 Australian Farmer of the Year Awards held at Parliament House in Canberra, named Rural Community Leader of the Year.
HAMILTON agents penned 13,600 lambs and 5500 sheep at the weekly market where the quality was of a similar standard to the previous market over most categories of lamb and sheep on offer.
AGRICULTURE Victoria is asking school holidaymakers to help keep the state’s $17.5 billion agriculture industry safe from biosecurity threats including pests and diseases.
ON Wednesday morning, Hamilton Medical Group and Western District Health Service men’s health/urology nurse practitioner, Stuart Willder, delivered a presentation about strokes to the Hamilton Men’s Shed.
The newly-formed Rural Roads Alliance has given evidence to a parliamentary inquiry, reiterating its call for an emergency funding package totalling nearly $5.5 billion.
In early May the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) made what some consider a shock decision to raise the cash rate by a further 25 basis points to 3.85%. This followed the decision not to raise the rate in April.
THE Pet Palace Hamilton has been announced as a finalist for the Positive Impact Within the Community Award and the Overcoming the Odds Award at the 2023 Australian Rural Business Awards.
HIGHER levels of disease in their wheat crops due to wetter conditions in recent years has the Conboy family at Maroona in south-west Victoria on high alert again for the coming season.
