The State Government needs to guarantee it will continue to allow wild dog controllers to bait and trap on public land within three kilometres of private property. Control measures in these areas are currently permitted, but a 2018 five-year order that allows this is due to expire on October 1 and Gippsland East MP, Tim Bull, said the silence from the government on the topic is concerning. “Here...

Cattle and sheep prices may have plummeted since last year's Gippsland Red Meat (GRMC) conference but two of Australia's most respected red meat industry market analysts are predicting they will start to make a comeback in 2025, peaking in 2027, at higher than previous rates. The headline act of the Gippsland Red Meat Conference held in Sale last week, Simon Quilty and Rob Herrmann, outlined the...

TAFE Gippsland is working with one of the region's leading vegetable and salad leaf growers to provide English language lessons for a group of international workers. Ten Kiribati and Timor Leste team members from Bulmer Farms are one month into a three-month intensive English language course at TAFE Gippsland's Bairnsdale campus. The course content, created by the TAFE Gippsland team in...

Local sheep farmers, John and Leanne White, of Lindenow South, have the smarts. The couple who run a few thousand sheep on their property have managed to avoid the ongoing drought of shearer availability by arranging their flock to be shorn earlier than most. “Our shearing was completed a month ago, we’re done and dusted,” Mr White, who is also an East Gippsland Shire councillor, told Primary...

Commercial beef producers will be able to market and sell their cattle through FarmGate Auctions (FarmGate) with verified data backed by genomic testing and on a new digital platform, taking them to next-level marketing and product branding. The new platform will allow producers to add their biodiversity credentials, emission reduction programs, previous product performance, product branding and...