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19th March 2025

AM Edition

Inside the underground cable push coming for Victorian farmland

An energy company wants to bury a cable along the Calder Freeway and across 50 farms to Charlton, replacing the need to build more overhead transmission lines.

‘Problematic’: Agriculture industry in data drought

Data is everywhere but not when it comes to agriculture. Some statistics are years old before they are even released, prompting calls for reporting bodies to lift their game.

‘We’re paying a lot more for the privilege of fighting our own fires’

The Victorian Government will be slug the 14 farming families running Traynors Lagoon CFA brigade with a $212,500 emergency services tax bill.

Mormon church snaps up more Aussie farms

A 5700ha part of a $250m cropping portfolio has been sold to powerful American agricultural investors in a huge deal.

How Animals Australia will make live export an election issue

Animals Australia has appealed for financial support to help fund its latest campaign to stop live sheep exports.

Dooen farmers set to submit on mine

Dooen farmers are facing the next step in their fight to oppose a local mine, as the Resources Victoria regulator accepts a new mining licence application.