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It's the end of an era for a south-west Victorian cattle stud.
Topics: beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, agribusiness, mortlake-3272, warrnambool-3280
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Fertiliser prices have soared on the back of a softening Australian dollar and increasing demand.
Topics: fertilisers, agricultural-crops, grain, wheat, agricultural-prices, horsham-3400
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Rain in Victoria's north-west has boosted optimism about the next grain season.
Topics: grain, wheat, agricultural-crops, weather, ouyen-3490, horsham-3400, bendigo-3550, mildura-3500
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Sarah Sammon picks thousands of rose blooms, just for their petals.
Topics: flowers, marriage, women-in-agriculture, rural-women, swan-hill-3585
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On paper, it's hardly a glamorous life - very early mornings, late nights and a variable income.
Topics: dairy-production, rural-youth, naringal-3277, warrnambool-3280, allansford-3277
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The failed Victorian grain handler, Convector Grain, has officially gone into liquidation.
Topics: grain, wheat, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, business-economics-and-finance, agribusiness, mildura-3500, horsham-3400
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Feed and plenty of it.
Topics: wool, sheep-production, animal-nutrition, bushfire, farm-labour, horsham-3400
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It started from a love of flowers.
Topics: flowers, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, agribusiness, women-in-agriculture, horsham-3400
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Volunteers are converging on fire-affected parts of the Victorian Grampians.
Topics: sheep-production, wool, agricultural-crops, bushfire, stawell-3380, halls-gap-3381, horsham-3400
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Shell middens on the banks of the Murray River are being excavated by archaeologists.
Topics: archaeology, indigenous-culture, murray-darling-basin, sheep-production, university-and-further-education, cullulleraine-3496
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Archaeologists are digging into one of Victoria's largest pastoral properties to gain an insight into life thousands of years ago.
Topics: archaeology, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, sheep-production, rivers, indigenous-culture, wool, cullulleraine-3496, mildura-3500
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There are mounting calls for Australia's peak citrus group to overhaul its organisation to better represent growers.
Topics: agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, fruit, fruits, mildura-3500
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It's not just humans who're feeling the heat this summer.
Topics: poultry-and-egg-production, weather, animal-welfare, merbein-3505
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It's the world's most eaten meat yet it's wreaking havoc in the Mallee.
Topics: pest-management, goat-production, sheep-production, weather, agribusiness, wentworth-2648, mildura-3500, pooncarie-2648, broken-hill-2880
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Scientists in north-west Victoria are replicating the impact bushfires have on wine grape vineyards.
Topics: fruit, viticulture, agricultural-crops, bushfire, royal-commission-victoria-2009-bushfires, mildura-3500
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As the Mallee deals with 40-plus degree heat, backpackers from across the globe are sweating it out in vineyards in Mildura.
Topics: fruit, fruits, agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, rural-tourism, rural-youth, irymple-3498, mildura-3500
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Growers in three of Australia's inland wine regions will join forces to try and force wineries to offer higher prices for grapes.
Topics: viticulture, agricultural-crops, fruit, agricultural-prices, mildura-3500, merbein-3505, renmark-5341, wagga-wagga-2650
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Keeping free range chooks alive is a huge concern for egg farmers as the temperature soars.
Topics: poultry-and-egg-production, weather, agribusiness, merbein-3505, mildura-3500
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Australian grain prices are continuing to defy global trends, thanks to drought conditions in the north.
Topics: agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, grain, wheat, agricultural-prices, hamilton-3300, mildura-3500, horsham-3400, warrnambool-3280
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Price and contract cuts have devastated white wine grape growers in the Mallee.
Topics: viticulture, fruit, fruits, agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, mildura-3500, robinvale-3549
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Prolonged dry weather in the north and frosts during harvest in the south have fodder yields tipped to fall this year.
Topics: agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, agricultural-prices, agribusiness, mildura-3500
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Victorian beef producers are calling on the Federal Government to approve aerial baiting to control wild dogs in the state's high country.
Topics: beef-cattle, livestock-welfare, wool, pest-management, agricultural-policy, cattle-feedlots, tallangatta-3700
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Grain growers in the US are nervously waiting for the country's cold snap to clear so they can inspect their crops.
Topics: grain, agricultural-crops, weather, agricultural-prices, united-states, mildura-3500
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Table and wine grape growers fear a fungal disease outbreak will slash yields and taint grapes.
Topics: agricultural-crops, crop-harvesting, agricultural-chemicals, fruits, fruit, viticulture, quarantine, mildura-3500, robinvale-3549, renmark-5341
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Analysts say the bidding war for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter is reaching a critical point, as the number of shares on the market dry up.
Topics: dairy-production, agribusiness, food-and-beverage, agricultural-policy, agricultural-prices, warrnambool-3280
