FOSTER North farmer and South Gippsland Councillor Scott Rae famously got his hands dirty delivering a much-publicised message about the controversial Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund (ESVF) to State Parliament in May this year.
FARMERS in Bass Coast are paying too much in rates, they say, and too great a share of the overall rate burden of $61 million. The Bass Coast Shire Council seems to have acknowledged this by proposing to cut the amount of rates levied on farms from...
THE voices of handlers and the shuffle of sheep were on full display at the Korumburra Showgrounds over the weekend, as the Southeastern Victorian Sheep Dog Trials returned for their 70th year. Secretary Louise Rielly said the event had drawn its...
CONFIDENCE and prices were high at today’s Leongatha Store Sale following good recent rain. “It was a grass driven market,” SEJ livestock agent Owen Kindellan said. Auctioneer Jimmy Kyle, fondly known to those at SEJ as ‘Hollywood’ lived...
