Rural

  • New guide to cereal killers

    Grain growers can use Agriculture Victoria’s 2022 Cereal Disease Guide to consider their disease management plans for their winter crops.

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  • Grown cattle attract strong price results

    Grown cattle attracted strong prices at Colac’s weekly market, despite a small yarding.

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  • Research on child farm injuries

    Rates of child farm-related injury have remained constant over the past 20 years, despite ongoing efforts to reduce them.

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  • Meat and livestock group predicts sheep increase

    Australia will have 74.4 million sheep by the end of 2022, with Meat and Livestock Australia predicting the national herd to grow by 4.9 per cent this year.

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  • State biosecurity system boost

    A new Victorian Biosecurity Reference Group will aim to strengthen Victoria’s biosecurity system for the future.

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  • Sheep movements recorded

    National Livestock Identification System recorded about a million sheep movements in Victoria in December 2021, as the system hits full implementation.

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  • Soil grant to track carbon

    Farming innovators can apply for grants of between $100,000 and $20 million to lower the cost of measuring carbon stored in the soil.

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  • Victorian crackdown on illegal water plants

    Agriculture Victoria is targeting the online sale of water hyacinth and salvinia, two of Victoria’s highest priority aquatic noxious weeds.

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