TED McNabb reckons this year could be just like 1969.

FOUR brothers are keeping a family farming tradition alive.

ANDREW and Dianne Koop’s passion for farming led them to a top billing in this season’s Wimmera Champion Crop competition.

It’s the end of a long week and you have some serious unwinding to do. You could do this in the comfort of your own home … or you could treat yourself to a fabulously glam weekend away at Port Douglas like we did.

SALLY McNabb was using the damp, cool weather to clean up after Christmas and to try to get the house back to normal.

SALLY McNabb was using the damp, cool weather to clean up after Christmas and to try to get the house back to normal.

FROM one extreme to the other is how East Gippsland farmer Andrew Dumaresq described this cropping year.

ONE of the perennial problems faced by Australian grain growers is lodging in heavy crops in the months before harvest.

PRIME lamb producers are being urged to individually identify lambs, ewes and rams.

LOCAL farmers experiment with plant growth regulators to counter the growing problem of lodging in crops, writes PETER HEMPHILL