Cape Conran and Marlo continue to a show a resurgence in the tourism market post bushfires and COVID-19.  However, popular local beaches such as East Cape and Salmon Rocks remain unmanned by lifeguards. The area does not have a designated surf lifesaving club, yet beaches are regularly filled with visitors and locals swimming, surfing and bodyboarding throughout the busy summer holiday...

The Gippsland Jersey 2023 calendar has just been printed and launched at a gathering at the company’s milk factory in Lakes Entrance last Thursday, December 8, with a bunch of East Gippsland farmers featured.  Inside you will get to meet 12 Gippsland dairy farmers and read their stories.  This is the fifth year of publication and it is a much-anticipated and well-respected calendar...

Busch Organics at Hillside has taken out the prestigious  Chairman's Award at the Australian Organic Industry Awards (2022). A humble Kane Busch, a fourth generation vegetable farmer, told Primary Producer "it's nice to be recognised". "There's so many people that I work beside, the rest of my family (Kane's brothers Matt and Damien, and father Chris) and all the incredible workers we have,...

The unusually wet spring has resulted in perfect growing conditions for a couple of pasture species, the sometimes-maligned kikuyu, and the always-love-to-hate African Lovegrass. Kikuyu is flourishing at the moment, showing lush leaf growth and producing runners to enable the plants to spread across bare ground (and up shed walls, where applicable!) Kikuyu is regarded by some farmers as a pest...

The sheep worm, Barber’s Pole, is set to continue wreaking havoc again this season given wet humid conditions that allow the worm to thrive.  A recent information day about combatting Barber’s Pole and drench resistance was well received in the Buchan and Gelantipy districts, with 20 farming businesses represented at the two sites. The Buchan Recovery Discussion Group, organised by local...