Archive for December, 2010

APART from the demands of the farm with flies still bad, decisions about late hay and trying to ensure the headers and trucks don’t get bogged again, Christmas was reasonably uneventful.

KEITH Cowen did his farm rounds last month with a spring in his step and a tape measure in his pocket.

THE Federal Government’s latest bid to present a new Murray Darling Basin plan to Parliament by early 2012 is doomed to fail.

STATE and industry politics have merged for Don Pegler, writes KATE DOWLER

THINKING outside the square has helped Anthony and Margie Melton even out their farm cash flow.

WITH spring joining in the herd Sally needed to travel through the northern flood areas to look at a replacement bull.

LIVESTOCK are proving a powerful tool in efforts to improve pastures on steep hills.

THE dogs are tied up at home and the motorbikes are in the shed.

CROPS of all shapes and sizes grow at the Henry farm, writes ANDREW MOLE

WHAT’S a beekeeper like Eric Wythe doing running Merino sheep – and big South Australian sheep at that – on the greener pastures north of Port Fairy?