The Australian arm of Humane Society International (HSI) has launched the latest edition of its ‘Better Wool Guide’ which features over 200 brands that are part of the growing movement to phase out mulesing. HSI Australia’s guide highlights 221 brands available to Australian consumers with a commitment to remove mulesed wool from their supply chains, with many already claiming to be mulesing...

Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) says some farmers are still failing to manage dairy effluent, after it fined a West Gippsland company more than $9000 for letting more than 1000 litres of effluent escape into a creek. The company was issued with remedial notices requiring it to stop any discharges from the property and fix its dairy effluent management system. EPA Gippsland...

Graeme Neal has been carting livestock all over Victoria, and sometimes interstate, for the past 64 years. Now, at the age of 82, he has decided it's time to call it a day. Most mornings for the past six-and-a-half decades, Mr Neal, or Jingles as they call him, has fired up one of his trusty trucks and carted cattle, sheep, goats, horses and even donkeys for a band of loyal clients. "I've worked...

Bruthen dairy farmer, Peter Jennings, feeds his herd mid morning by rolling out a bale of silage. He unclips the electric ribbon keeping his cows in an adjoining paddock to allow them to come into the pasture where it has been distributed. The herd, which watches the silage being rolled out, don’t need any encouragement - they charge over to the freshly laid out feed, head butting one another...

Livestock producers across the country, including East Gippsland, are experiencing a readjustment of prices following a period of record highs last year. Cattle prices have been the first to take a sharp drop with one High Country farmer recently telling Primary Producer, "the bottom has fallen out of the cattle market". "I can't sell because I bought my yearlings at just under $1000 each and...