A date has been set and a glorious backdrop secured for the next Mountain Cattlemen's Get Together, where the cattlemen's heritage will be the focus. 'Livingstone Waters', Omeo, owned by the Ferguson family, and set along the Livingstone Creek, will host the event on October 18-20. Local MCAV liaison officers, Amanda Pendergast and Amber Connley, are looking forward to hosting about 3500 people...

Carbon specialist, Dr Richard Eckard, will this month help local farmers to crunch their figures to come up with their farm's carbon emissions number. The workshop, organised by Gippsland Agricultural Group (GAgG), aims to get farmers their baseline number, in line with Meat and Livestock Australia's (MLA) target for the red meat industry being carbon neutral by 2030. GAgG general manager, Jen...

Standing feed but dry conditions for the previous six weeks met the buyers at the annual Mountain Calf Sales last week, where hundreds of people converged for the flurry of activity that is five sales over two days. The history and stories to do with the people, the cattle and the sales over the years is varied and fortunately a lot of it is detailed in the book Selling the Mountain Calves, A...

A two-day workshop to help women with their farming business financials has the makings of a perfect getaway – learning new information at a beach location, all in the company of good people. The workshop is headed by Countryside Business Partners' Chris Jehu, formerly of the Rural Financial Counselling Service. "The aim is to help people to understand where their business is at, identify where...

Mid-March marks the time renowned independent plant and soil educator, Joel Williams, will be in Gippsland over several days, traversing the region from Yarram to Omeo. The first workshop is at Flynn on March 13, talking about production limitations from soil test results, liquid and granular fertilisers and the connection between trace elements and animal health. The following day, Joel’s...