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When they are not growing food and raising livestock, Bill Hotson and Courtney Young can be found with brushes in their hands, expressing their deep connection to the country via their art.

Darwin's once numerous flower farmers have shrunk from 40 in the 1980s to five, with those left inching closer to retirement. 

How has fire management changed since that fateful summer four years ago, when bushfires wiped out a third of the softwood forestry plantation in the Snowy Mountains?

A meeting at a Melbourne restaurant 10 years ago has helped open revenue streams for a north-east Victorian cherry grower as he diversifies to lessen the blow of consecutive rough seasons.

First Nations water groups have welcomed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan which will formally acknowledge their connection to water and aim to increase Indigenous ownership.  

The EPA successfully prosecutes a lone company director for failing to clear a massive collection of old tyres it says is a fire risk with potential toxic smoke and air traffic impeded at nearby Albury airport.

Vitasoy Australia chief executive David Tyack predicts the plant-based milk market will continue to grow, noting there hasn't been a contraction in the past decade.

Shoppers have stopped buying pears in favour of other ready-to-eat alternatives, and now some farmers can't make a living growing the "forgotten fruit".

Eight farmers in the Benalla region are growing gum trees for biotech company Gretals as it researches using pinocembrin as a treatment for neurodegenerative diseases.

Seed banks say they need more government funding to plant native orchards to ever hope to reach regeneration targets.

Sheep producers are selling their poorest stock for as little as a few dollars a head as meat markets continue their freefall.

Residents of a small Victorian country town say the intersection where two couples lost their lives is dangerous at the best of times and can be even more so for people not familiar with the area.

Victorian farmers fear decades of work against wild dog attacks on livestock is about to come undone. 

Victorian irrigators are happy the state has opted out of the federal government's new basin plan, but are worried about what water buybacks in other states will do to farming in Australia.

Meet the 24-year-old from Gippsland who beat nine male finalists to win Young Driver of the Year. 

The Loch Garry levee bank has been repaired after the worst flooding in 48 years, but there are expectations it may need to be replaced within 10 years, and stakeholders want help with the costs.

Post lockdown, people are not quitting knitting and Meaghan Williams meets their demand by selling homegrown, hand-dyed yarn straight from her farm in north-east Victoria.

Timber milling is an intergenerational lifeline in Corryong. Many residents will be impacted by the state government's recent acceleration of the end of native timber harvesting, tipped for the end of the year. 

Australia's 2023 vintage is well down on the 10-year average thanks to challenging weather and economic factors — but the industry hopes higher quality fruit will mean better prices.

About 52 per cent of Australian wool producers still mules their flocks, but a growing group of discerning buyers are paying premium for it.

Fifth-generation apple, pear and stone fruit grower Mitchell McNab says robotics will play a major role in the future to keep production costs down.

The coolest crowd at this regional Victorian primary school is cattle club, followed closely by goat club. The students involved "love spending time with the animals," which is music to the ears of an industry struggling to fill jobs.

Animal Justice MP Georgie Purcell says the parliamentary inquiry will focus on gassing methods and forms of confinement in the pork industry.

As the Victorian apple harvest wraps up, the robot picker has reached a major milestone in Goulburn Valley orchards. 

Talk in the saleyards at Albury Wodonga turned from the cattle market to mental health this week with livestock agents sporting a new look.