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Itravelled to Devenish for a grain grower meeting last week.
Devenish is a small village in northeast Victoria, 50-kilometres east of Shepparton.
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Like so many small towns throughout regional Victoria, it is working hard to maintain a sense of community.
It lost its footy and netball club a few years back and the Graincorp silos have closed – but it still has a great pub.
I went there to talk about the High Amylose Wheat, HAW, project we are working on.
Think of it as a ‘wheat with benefits’ – probably the first wheat to have clear health benefits beyond just normal nutrition.
The first commercial production of HAW was in the Wimmera last season, with 11 growers producing 3500 megatonnes.
The first shipment is now on its way to a flour mill in Japan.
A domestic miller has also joined the project and will take 500mt of the
