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Rural news in brief
News on Farm Safety Week, mining exploration on farmland and education on agriculture.
Water bills set to change
Barwon Water has tweaked its water prices, cutting its service prices while increasing the amount it charges for each litre of water.
Weed spraying starts
Contractors will cut or spray roadside weeds across Colac Otway Shire later this month.
Work on rotunda restoration stalled
Work has stalled on the conversion of a rotunda at Colac cemetery, but the cemeteryโs management says the project will go ahead.
Focus on facts to increase profitability chances
Agriculture Victoria is advising farmers to get as informed about their paddocks as they can to increase their profitability chances this year.
Extension for hunting licences after virus lockdowns
Recreational hunters will receive a one-year extension to their game licences after the State Government banned recreational hunting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Industry guides state work on coronavirus
A panel of farming industry representatives is helping the State Government ensure supply chains stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.
Performing arts will return in Colac, bigger and better
The temporary closure of all social and leisure facilities across Australia has left an enormous emptiness in our communal sense of wellbeing.
