Rural

  • Growing market for lowline cattle breed

    BEEF farmers Jeanette and Peter Stebbins farm for love.
    The couple moved six years ago to their Princeton

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  • Tractor fans gather for ploughing contest

    COLAC and district ploughers will gather at Larpent this weekend for the Colac and District Ploughing Association’s annual contest.

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  • Landcare celebration for silver anniversary

    COLAC district Landcare groups keep fighting to improve the environment, 25 years after the national network began.

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  • Senator joins gas mining fight

    A GREENS senator has thrown his support behind a battle against coal-bed gas exploration in Colac and district.

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  • Proposed $1.5M roof could save saleyards

    STOCK agents say building a roof over Colac’s saleyards is critical to its survival.

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  • Senator says convoy flopped

    VICTORIAN Greens Senator and Deans Marsh resident Richard Di Natale says a protest convoy from Colac to Canberra was “a flop”.

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  • Mushroom growers boosting production

    A COLAC district organic producer must keep a consistent supply of its unique mushrooms to keep up with demand.

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  • Dairy’s milk has an international flavour

    COLAC district dairy farmer Chris Vogels had never heard of Uzbekistan 10 years ago, but he now employs five migrants from the Central Asian republic.

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