Marian Macdonald

Five investors have tipped in $13 million to take a methane-busting seaweed developed by the CSIRO to market.

The Victorian Ombudsman is investigating whether complaints against a Maffra milk transport business, Bulk Liquid Carriers, were properly dealt with by Dairy Food Safety Victoria.

Camperdown dairy farmer Carlie Barry hopes to get 100 signatures from Dairy Australia members in just two weeks so she can stand for election to the board.

Dairy beef is a real prospect after early research results show that, in the right conditions, Holstein calves gain weight at a rate that rivals Angus, and Tasmanian dairy farmer Jane Sykes says dairy beef markets can't come soon enough.

The National Centre for Farmer Health is running the #SnapshotRuralVic competition

Peter Greenham senior died on Sunday August 16.

Premier Daniel Andrews this morning announced a COVID testing blitz in Geelong and surrounds, Ballarat and Bendigo as "mystery cases" spike in the three regional cities but said the "issue of the week" was border closures.

The Victorian Farmers Federation will hold its elections in December after a member threatened to call an extraordinary general meeting to vote down the board's earlier decision to postpone them until February next year.

Of the 16 working group members who will steer dairy advocacy reform, only three are dairy farmers.

Grassroots farmers calling for transparency in dairy industry decision making have been warned.