Olive harvest underway
Western Victorian olive groves are looking forward to a fruitful olive harvest. The olives are ripe and ready for harvest two months ahead of schedule. Laharum Grove's Deirdre Baum says they've just...
View ArticleEarly olive harvest in Victoria
Western Victorian olive groves are heavy with plump fruit.
View ArticleWarracknabeal to produce export grade sultanas
Some dried fruit growers will receive $2,000 a tonne for their sultanas this season - the highest prices in 10 years.
View ArticleMore crop damage reports from Victorian wet
Victorian grain harvest prospects have plummeted after falls of 100 millimetres in some places.
View ArticleVictorian floods cost farmers $2 billion
Agriculture has taken an enormous hit, with floodwaters wiping out many different crops, hundreds of kilometres of fencing and feed. Early estimates on damage to infrastructure and loss of production...
View ArticleTravellers warned of fruit fly threat
The Victorian Government is reminding people travelling interstate over the long weekend that it is illegal to bring fruit into fruit fly exclusion zones.
View ArticleCitrus growers warned to get permits in order
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is urging citrus growers in fruit fly-affected areas of Victoria to make sure their permits are in order.
View ArticleBumper olive harvest
Olive branches are heavy laden with fruit, drooping with the weight of this year's harvest. Grove owners have just started picking, welcoming the increased production, up by about 50 per cent on last...
View ArticleRice crops solve food storage problems in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is really like one big farm. Most people are subsistence farmers, growing their own food and selling anything extra they produce in village markets. From the plane, the country looks...
View ArticleHorticulture exit grants scheme closes
A grants program that has been offered to horticulturists to leave the industry has been closed without warning.
View ArticleDried fruit firm gets $150K for dehydration project
A Victorian dried fruit processing company has received a $150,000 grant to help commercialise a new process at Warracknabeal.
View ArticleGrowers warned of fruit fly costs
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) says it is expecting a similar number of fruit fly outbreaks this season compared to last year.
View ArticlePermanent fruit fly checkpoint mooted
The Victorian Government is considering a permanent checkpoint for motorists on the Sturt Highway to try to halt the flow of fruit fly into the region.
View ArticleSuppliers distraught as dried fruits company goes into administration
Dried fruits processing company Clyne Foods has gone into administration.
View ArticleFlood recovery funding could save dried fruit company
The Victorian Government says it'll back the troubled dried fruit processor Clyne Foods if there's a way for it to trade out of its financial problems.
View ArticleFears no cash flow for Clyne growers
Frustration is growing among about 150 dried fruit growers owed money from the collapse of the Warracknabeal-based processor Clyne Foods last month.
View ArticleFruit fly treatment schemes 'hit the mark'
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) says it is making good progress in tackling northern Victoria's record Queensland fruit fly outbreak.
View ArticleClyne Foods' assets sold off
Assets from collapsed dried fruits processor Clyne Foods have been sold off at an auction at Warracknabeal.
View ArticleCitrus grower gets rural gong
Red Cliffs' citrus grower Tania Chapman has been named as Victorian Rural Woman of the Year.
View ArticleConcern in the olive grove about zircon mine
A western Victorian olive farmer is concerned about a proposed mine at Drung South, three kilometres from her property.
View ArticleKing of the Quince
Sheep farmer John Ganey loves slow cooking, especially when it comes to quinces.
View ArticleEmus with a belly full of olives
The olive harvest is well underway in western Victoria and farmer, Greg Mathews, from Wartook, has been busy shaking olives from the trees in his organic grove.
View ArticleLeading the way through struggling citrus industry
The citrus industry is facing some its hardest challenges yet, and many growers are asking, 'who's going to lead it through tough times'?
View ArticleGrape growers keen for Philippines trade
The federal Member for Mallee says he has had positive talks with Filipino officials over the export of Australian table grapes.
View ArticleFarmers to consider resolution calling on supermarkets to sell...
Victorian farmers are considering a push to force the major supermarkets to sell only Australian-grown fruit in their house-branded packaged fruit.
View ArticleRail industrial action forces Victorian transport company to use trucks...
Ongoing industrial action between Pacific National and its workforce costs transport companies thousands of dollars as they are forced to switch from rail to road transport.
View ArticleCalls for an overhaul of farm worker visas as unemployed Australians refuse...
A national lobby group calls for a new farm worker visa after an incentive program to get unemployed people onto farms attracts lacklustre participation.
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