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A Russian farm, believed to be the world's biggest, is on the market. Read more.

Hopes fade for missing aussie

Victorian police have arrived to help the rescue and recovery mission in Christchurch.

A HUSBAND and father from NSW is among the missing feared to have perished in the Christchurch earthquake.

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NZ focus now on finding bodies

Christchurch Cathedral remains a focal figure of the city's earthquake damage.

THE focus of emergency operations in quake-hit Christchurch has shifted from rescue to body recovery, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says.

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Geelong mum rescued from rubble

Geelong mother Anne Vos had a miraculous escape from a collapsed building in Christchurch.

GEELONG-born Anne Vos's first words to her son after being pulled from the rubble were, "I'm sure someone's watching over me".

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Get set for Ring Road chaos

The Ring Road was hit with early morning chaos after a crash left one man in hospital.

MOTORISTS on the Western Ring Road should brace for chaos after an early morning accident.

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Five more years of footy delay

Football fans may once again miss out on live TV coverage on Friday nights.

FOOTY fans face another five years of delayed Friday night TV broadcasts.

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Aussies still missing

Rescue teams in New Zealand.

UPDATE: AT LEAST one Australian "family man" is among the Christchurch earthquake dead.

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Racetrack makeovers

Racetrack makeovers in Bendigo and Ballarat.

RACETRACK upgrades of more than $700,000 are set to begin in Ballarat and Bendigo.

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We don't influence milk prices: Coles

Coles says it doesn't influence farm gate prices.

THE Dairy Farmers Milk Co-operative says Coles are well aware that they influence farm gate prices.

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Mildura bucks Victorian crime trend

Victorian crime figures.

MILDURA'S crime rate jumped more than 5 per cent last year bucking Victoria's overall decrease in crime.

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Toxic bore water in Adelaide

Toxic bore water.

MORE than 2000 people living in Adelaide's south-west have been warned not to use bore water after tests revealed toxic chemicals.

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Horsham's Ambicare shuts down

Ambicare has closed down.

FIFTY people have lost their jobs in regional Victoria after patient transfer company Ambicare went into liquidation.

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Meatworker kills croc near school

Croc killed in NT near school.

A CROC has been killed after it terrorised a family, killing their dog near a Northern Territory school.

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Deluge strikes Victoria

Pictures: Victorians copped a pelting after wild weather caused by Queensland's cyclones hit the state.

Around the sales

Pictures: Take a look at this week's livestock sales action from Ballarat, Wycheproof, Pakenham and Wodonga.

Floods linger

Pictures: Floodwaters are lingering around the Mildura region after heavy rain in the past few weeks.

Seymour expo

Pictures: Animals and artworks of all sizes were on show at the Seymour Alternative Farming Expo.

Signs good for agriculture

The signs are all good for farmers in southeast Australia.

FARMERS are not used to being spoilt for choice.

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Supermarket war zone

Aussie farmers paying the price in supermarket war.

THE battle for supremacy in the supermarket war takes no prisoners and inflicts high casualties, writes XAVIER DUFF

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Heavy stubbles hinder sowing

Experts have predicted that grain growers will experience problems with stubble at sowing time.

LARGE crops last season will pose huge problems with stubbles at sowing time, according to a grains research leader.

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Pat's NZ judging debut

Dairy farmer Pat Nicholson made his international judging debut last week at the World Jersey Conference.

GIRGARRE dairy farmer Pat Nicholson made his debut as an international dairy judge at the World Jersey Conference.

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Locusts in the Barossa

Locusts

LOCUSTS could cause problems for South Australia's Barossa Valley over the next few weeks with second-generation hoppers set to take flight.

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Wunghnu player search

Wunghnu Magpies president Steve Neff

WUNGHNU Football Club has six days to secure enough players to prove it is a viable concern.

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Apiarists Asian bee fight

The Australian bee industry is under threat.

AUSTRALIA'S beekeepers are taking their fight to wipe out the invasive Asian honeybee to the steps of federal parliament.

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Back Paddock

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Simon Crean's poli-waffle

Simon Crean

KEVIN Rudd is a master at the art of bureaucratese, the incomprehensible language of government.

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