Farmers and land managers across Victoria face significant impacts from invasive pest animals, whether its feral pigs, foxes and wild dogs. Agriculture Victoria biosecurity manager established invasive animals, Jason Wishart,...
The Gippsland Farmers' Bus Tour – open to all farmers across East and West Gippsland – represents an opportunity to get off the farm and broaden farming horizons. This year's...
One of Victoria’s largest beef breeding properties, Cobungra Station, has begun exporting beef to the European Union under its own brand. The pristine free-grazing land of Cobungra Station is home...
From a frosty May to possible flooding in June, East Gippsland is looking like experiencing the first wet winter in some years. On Monday, the Elders weather app was predicting...
East Gippsland’s battle with the ever-spreading African lovegrass (ALG) was charged with information last week, aiming to spread awareness and methods to get on top of it. Three experts presented...
A demonstration spanning six years and involving producer demonstrations, is underway at the Gippsland Research Farm on the Bengworden Road. Gippsland Agricultural Group (GAgG) board member and pasture sub-committee...
Alpacas at Bairnsdale have sprung to national fame lately, involved in research that may help in the fight against COVID-19. Bairnsdale researcher and veterinarian, Andrew Padula, previously the owner of...
The traditional open auction of the Gippsland Merino Breeders annual sale has been replaced this year by the AuctionsPlus system. The sale will run online on September 1, with 184?...
They may retail at $3000 a kilogram but truffles don’t actually grow on trees, rather, they grow on tree roots underground. At Tambo Upper, a variety of factors including a...
New technology that monitors beehives is being heralded as a world first. Australia is the only populated country in the world where bees have not been impacted by the Varroa...
Poachers are using thermal imaging scopes to illegally shoot deer in private property at night at Castleburn, 20 minutes south of Dargo. Farmers then find the evidence in the daylight,...
Ear samples from young dairy heifers are creating a bank of technological data for the Evans family, allowing management decisions to be made about which heifers will join the milking...
In early January, Bairnsdale Advertiser rainfall contributor of 20 years, Alan Stickland of Sarsfield, rang in with his weekly rain total. “My rain gauge is still standing but my house...
Polarised opinions on the issue of wild dog management have seen an awkward term for the State Government’s Wild Dog Management Advisory Committee. Last month the seven-member committee finished its...
Storing water from the Mitchell River’s winter flows is almost a reality for Lindenow Valley farmers who are building dams to help shore up their water supply over summer. For...
