Agriculture

Tuesday, 21 January 2025

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Change to roos harvest zones as ‘numbers keep expanding’

NEW kangaroo harvest zones and barcodes replaced by QR codes on tags has been confirmed for 2025. Loddon Shire is now in the Loddon Malle region, one of five new zones, with a harvest quota of 49,500 for the year. Department of Energy, Environment...

By Loddon Herald

Hosking elected as farmers’ new voice

BRETT Hosking has become the third Loddon farmer in 30 years to be elected leader of Victoria’s peak farming organisation. Mr Hosking, a mixed farmer based at Quambatook, won the Victorian Farmers’ Federation election last month. Victory to the...

By Loddon Herald

A million cod make way into river

MORE than one million Murray cod feedlings have been released into the Loddon River over the last decade following a pre-Christmas batch of 195,000 being tipped into local waters. Victorian Fisheries Authority staff were helped by angling enthusiast...

By Loddon Herald

Weed spurt! Stock at risk

BY CHRIS EARL FARMERS are on high alert after mid-summer rains kick-started a potentially lethal spurt of panic weed across the Loddon. One spent the Christmas-New Year break nursing six-month-old Merino lambs back to health after a sudden spurt of...

By Loddon Herald

15,000 penned at first sale of year

AS PUBLISHED IN THIS WEEK’S LODDON HERALD - PUBLISHED PRICES IN PRINT EDITION ARE CORRECT FOR the first sale of the year agents penned 15,500 lambs at Bendigo on Monday. Quality had a wide range with limited well finished lambs with good weight and...

By Loddon Herald

Grandma’s genes: The ewe behind a modern stud dynasty

By CHRIS EARL GRANDMA is passing on good genetics for Norm Weir at his Dunluce stud. Two generations on from grandma winning Grand Champion strong wool ewe at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, Norm’s knack of consistently breeding quality ewes...

By Loddon Herald

Hooked on classics: stud making a mark

By CHRIS EARL ROD KIRK had a yearning to come to Australia – the country he saw as the home of Merinos and a land of opportunity for his young family to become part of the sheep industry. A passion for Merinos whetted in his native New Zealand...

By Loddon Herald

Market’s strong finish

SHEEP and lamb prices have finished the year strongly for Loddon graziers. Stock agents saw a market top price of $280 at Bendigo on Monday as selling started early and numbers were capped to beat the heat. Inglewood stock agent and president of the...

By Loddon Herald

Co-op tips receivals will again top 200k

HARVEST across the Loddon was expected to be wrapped up by Christmas, Boort Grain Co-op manager Jon Bucknall said on Tuesday, Mr Bucknall said only a few small pockets, no more than five per cent of the region’s crops, would be left to harvest by...

By Loddon Herald

Dairy’s tick to build effluent pipeline

INSTALLATION of a private treated effluent pipeline at Calivil was approved by Loddon Shire councillors at their meeting on Tuesday. Councillors were told the private treated effluent pipeline at Calmo Farms’ dairy would remove amenity issues and...

By Loddon Herald

Nature group in special seven

WEDDERBURN Conservation Management Group is one of just seven Victorian organisations to receive a national Landcare grant last week. The network has been awarded $20,000 for its Connect with Nature program. The project aims to equip volunteers and...

By Loddon Herald

BREAKING NEWS: Hosking new VFF president

Quambatook farmer Brett Hosking is the new Victorian Farmers’ Federation president. He defeated egg farmer Danyel Cucinotta in the election. In results announced this morning, Tallangatta’s Peter Star was named the new vice-president. Mr Hosking’s...

By Loddon Herald

Sheep market topper: a box is ticked

A FARMING highlight was achieved by Des O’Donoghue last week. The Kamarooka North farmer topped the weekly Bendigo sheep and lamb market with his offering of crossbred ewes. More than 100 September shorn suckers averaged $300 while a second pen...

By Loddon Herald

Heidi joins team at Miller’s Ag

ANIMAL health specialist Heidi Sutherland has joined the team at Miller’s Ag in Pyramid Hill. Owner Neville Miller said Heidi’s experience would add to the knowledge and assistance available through the business for district farmers. “Heidi...

By Loddon Herald

Feedback fortnight on VNI West study

LODDON communities have less than a fortnight to give feedback on the first stage of an environmental effects statement for the controversial VNI West renewable energy transmission line. While communities have been asked for comments on the...

By Loddon Herald

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