Agri-Trans

26/07/2024

Some of you may have heard about the SLO process going on around Pyalong, Tooborac and Tallarook.
To go to a future meeting of Mitchell Shire Council, a Significant Landscape Overlay is scheduled to impact hundreds of landowners, mostly farmers, across properties around our local area.
The town areas are not affected, primarily Farming Zone.
This is NOT a farmer driven process, it is being imposed on ratepayers because of a consultant report costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that says its needed.
It prevents farmers from using their land the same way as their neighbour, because mostly they have some granite rocks on their land, and are in view of the roads so are deemed "signficant" and in need of protection FROM farmers. It will also affect farm values.
Many respected Mitchell Shire farming families are affected, and need our support. Please visit the new website created by a Tallarook farm landholder to help fight this upcoming decision for all threatened landholders. It may not be you this time, but your property could be next.
Please check if you are affected as well, not all landholders received the initial letter or made it to the drop in sessions. Some are just finding out their property is impacted.

Mitchell Shire Council has proposed Significant Landscape Overlays (SLOs) that will drastically impact farming operations.

26/10/2023

Rural Regeneration Grant - City of Greater Bendigo

Grants for farmers - must be in COGB LGA and farming zone or RCZ
Closing December 15

Money for projects on farm eg
- Fencing off waterways
- Indigenous plantings
- Protecting areas of native vegetation areas
- W**d management
- Moveable fencing and troughs

up to $2000 per year

all the info

The Greater Bendigo Rural Regeneration Grants Program aims to assist farmers and lifestyle property owners to implement best practice sustainable land management that benefits the farm, community and

16/10/2023

MLA info day for beef and sheep producers in Bendigo

Date: Thursday 23 November 2023
Venue: Fosterville Gold Exhibition Centre at the Bendigo Showgrounds, 42 – 72 Holmes Road, Bendigo, Victoria
Time: 9am-6:30pm, with the plenary session starting at 10am
The MLA Annual General Meeting will also take place at this event from 3:30pm
Cost: This event is free to attend, but registration is necessary.
REGISTER NOW https://updates.mla.com.au/

17/09/2023

Because everyone deserves to be heard and cared for.

🌾 3 free psychologist appointment available for Victorian farmers 🌾

No-cost appointments are now available via telehealth consultation.

Open to Victorian farmers who are feeling stressed, anxious, tired, angry, or depressed, or are looking to chat to someone.

Don't hesitate to reach out, and remember, in a crisis, always call 000 for immediate assistance. Your mental health matters.

Learn more and apply now here: https://utm.guru/lsyn_wmhd

16/08/2023

If you are a beef producer around Central Vic, please come along to this Agriculture Victoria Beef workshop.
You can also find out more about joining a new Betterbeef producer group in the area.

for more info contact RSVP by 29th August
Erica Schelfhorst
Livestock Extension Officer
0429 807 689 or
[email protected]

07/02/2023

Might be an interesting excuse for a trip to Bendigo. Jane is a really good speaker, have heard her at a Conference and her understanding of farming and agriculture is really good.

All Primary Producers are invited to a FREE weather and protein market outlook featuring Channel 7's Jane Bunn and JBS' Steve Chapman and Brendon Geary
Wycheproof Town Hall | Thursday 23rd February, 12pm - 2pm
Eaglehawk Football Netball Club | Friday 24th February, 9.30am - 11.30am
To register your attendance, click click here https://bit.ly/InformationSession2023

12/10/2022

Good news for our farmers

Under the regulations, farmers will be able to have trespasers onto their property prosecuted, so long as a Biosecurity Management Plan is in place and warning signs are displayed on all farm entry points.

26/08/2022

Might be of interest.

What can you do on your farm to best prepare for a potential Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak?

Join the VFF and Agriculture Victoria at 7pm Wednesday 31 August for a Q&A style webinar on what you can do to prepare your farm.

Speakers include:
· Danyel Cucinotta (VFF Vice-President)
· Mark Billing (VFF UDV President)
· Steve Harrison (VFF Livestock President)
· Tim Kingma (VFF Pig President)
· Ashley Fraser (VFF Grain President)
· Megan Scott (Principal Officer – Emergency Animal Disease, Chief Veterinary Officer’s Unit, Agriculture Victoria)

Registration is free and open to all farmers.

Click here to register: https://bit.ly/3QPYjU0

29/07/2022

Online webinars on 1st and 4th August re FMD from Ag Vic

Want to learn more about foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)?
Victorian livestock producers and service providers are invited to join a webinar to hear from Agriculture Victoria veterinary specialists about how we are preparing for and will respond to an FMD outbreak.

The webinar, that will include Victoria’s Chief Vet Graeme Cooke, will run Monday 1 August and again on Thursday 4 August between 7-8pm.

Register online now: agriculture.vic.gov.au/events

24/06/2022

Free workshops for sheep producers

We are looking forward to heading out on the road, to the western district this time, to facilitate FREE sheep & goat workshops. There will be some very interesting talks from our guest speakers so please register at https://www.vff.org.au/events/ or get in contact with the Stock Sense team :)
Victorian Farmers Federation

21/06/2022

Andrew and I are part of this Truckwise initiative, hopefully helps keep everyone safer on the road, especially our young ones.
https://www.truck-wise.com.au/

A Deakin University project is using virtual reality to help educate young inexperienced drivers about driving safely around heavy vehicles.