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Monsanto to pay $2billion

A jury in the United States has ordered Monsanto pay a combined $US2.05billion ($A2.94billion) to a couple who claimed the company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers.

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Landini launch

Konigs Shepparton will launch its specialist range of Landini orchard-vineyard tractors on May 29.

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Boost for artisans

Four Goulburn Valley businesses have received a leg up thanks to a recent grant aimed at spreading local produce further across the state.

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National ranch horse show comes to Elmore

Wyuna’s Bruno Robinson has come out on top at the recent Australian Ranch Horse Remuda Show.

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Grants on offer

Volunteer groups working to protect and restore Victoria’s land and environment for future generations can apply for a Victorian Landcare grant.

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Tax fraud conviction

A director of a labour hire company has been sentenced to six months’ jail after he was convicted of pay as you go withholding (PAYGW) fraud.

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Solar farm build under way

Enel Green Power Australia has started construction of the 34MW Cohuna Solar Farm at Horfield.

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Power cost cut appeals

A 73 per cent reduction in electricity costs for pumping irrigation water would be music to the ears of producers, according to the National Irrigators’ Council.

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Pigs a problem

A three-year project aiming to reduce the impacts of feral pigs on public land in a targeted location in north-east Victoria has commenced.

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Motion to withhold milk due to low prices fails

A suggestion from northern Victorian dairy farmers that they should consider withholding their milk from processors due to poor farm gate prices, failed when put to the vote at the recent UDV annual conference.

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Waaia farmer suffers chest and rib injuries in tractor and truck crash

A Waaia farmer is lucky to be alive according to police after the tractor he was driving and a B-double truck collided in Waaia last Friday night.

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Not good workers, but top company

How did they get their names?

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Coalition wins election

The Coalition has been returned to government, following a shock election win on Saturday.

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Inspired to help

A social media post from Yalca dairy farmer Steve Dalitz prompted a couple working on a south-east Gippsland farm to come and help him during the trying conditions.

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Combating animal activists top of UDV conference agenda

The Labor Party’s proposal for a floor price for milk was cautiously welcomed by national dairy advocacy groups at the UDV Conference in Melbourne on Friday.

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New reality to be focus

The potential of augmented and virtual reality to transform agricultural supply chains will be explored at a new event hosted by Meat & Livestock Australia.

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Query on cap’s non-inclusion

The Victorian Government has been criticised by the Opposition and the VFF for excluding the rates cap in its local government rating system review.

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Undera footballer hospitalised with brain bleed

An Undera footballer is fighting for his life after an incident during a Kyabram District League reserves game against Violet Town last Saturday.

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Echuca mother charged with murder walks free

THE Echuca mother charged over her daughter’s death in 2008 has walked free from court. Tania Walker, 35, charged with child homicide of 23-month-old Angela Bannister, appeared in Bendigo Magistrates Court on Tuesday for a bail application which...

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Car runs into house in Shepparton

A car has hit a house on the corner of Archer St and Stanley St at about 3.15 this afternoon. The vehicle left the road and travelled through a fence before coming to a hault. Police and CFA are on scene. The Archer St entrance to Stanley St is...

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2019 Land Of Plenty music festival line-up announced

An electric line-up has been announced for the 2019 Land Of Plenty music festival to be held in Shepparton later this year. Following through on last month’s promise to bring some of Australia’s hottest bands to the Goulburn Valley, the Greater...

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