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immera farm safety and crime prevention will be the subject of a unique rural expo at Murtoa on September 6.

The second Rural Safe, Farm Secure breakfast expo will be at Murtoa Recreation Reserve and provide insight into everything from injury-prevention to making property more secure from criminal activity. Murtoa Neighbourhood Watch is presenting the three-hour expo, designed to also double as a social gathering for rural communities across the region. Event manager Robyn-Maree Penny-Paditz said the event was free of charge and would start with a breakfast at Murtoa Community Centre at 8.30am before programs and presentations from 9am to noon. “As a team we are aware of how much impact crime, injuries and illnesses have on communities, whether it be on the farm or in town,” she said. “As a Neighborhood Watch group our focus is primarily crime prevention, but as members of a small community there is a bigger picture – community wellbeing – that embraces everyone’s health and safety. “Our motto is ‘let’s look out for each other’ and this expo is all about exploring what’s available to help us achieve this goal.”

Ms Penny-Paditz said small towns relied on farmers and it was important that everyone, including people living in towns as well as on farms, was aware of opportunities to create safe and secure environments. “When it comes to crime and occupational health and safety we’ve either heard of, or been aware of, many unfortunate circumstances,” she said. “We want to make sure people are aware of their own assets, how to protect themselves and their properties and to make sure there are no more injuries,” she said. The expo will involve a variety of health and emergency agencies such as Victoria Police and West Wimmera Health Service and also groups and businesses involved in either safety or crime prevention.

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learn more about crime prevention, being smart around machinery, firearm safety and security as well as general health, especially in the coming warmer months” – Robyn-Maree Penny-Paditz

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Ms Penny-Paditz said she was keen to get as many exhibitors – including topic-specific speakers, agricultural-product suppliers, security and insurance specialists, emergency services and sponsors – involved in the morning event. “This is a free community expo, so we will be inviting and accepting applications to join in right up to the night before. Sites are only $20,” she said. “Victorian Farmers Federation pres-

ident David Jochinke, who has been helpful in planning, will be among guests. “There will be three hours of displays and guest speakers that will help everyone prepare for a happy spring, summer and harvest. “Attendees will learn more about crime prevention, being smart around machinery, firearm safety and security as well as general health, especially in the coming warmer months.

“People often push themselves to get things done before rain comes or before the crop turns. “Corners get cut and important things like security, health and safety get pushed aside as people try to work longer and faster. “We want people to take this opportunity to stop for a moment and think smarter – to head into harvest season with all these things fresh in their mind so that they make it through har-

vest with the best outcomes possible. “We ask: when everyone is busy and pushed to their limits, can they afford to push themselves dangerously? “If you aren’t there to harvest because you’re laid up in hospital or worse, who’s going to get the crop in? “Equally, if you don’t secure your assets and machinery or a harvester or tractor gets stolen or damaged, who’s going to have the resources to cover you when everyone else is out using their own? “This can also affect town residents who are out working the land, not to mention people rushing around from place to place in this rapid-dash mindset. Slow down, think smart and make the most of the information we will have at the expo.” Ms Penny-Paditz said all farming communities across the region were welcome to attend. “You don’t have to simply be from Murtoa. We’re reaching out to as far as Ararat, Kaniva and Hopetoun and everywhere in between,” she said. “It is primarily set up for farmers but anyone will benefit from the talks, presentations and displays, all in an informal environment.” People keen to find out more can call Ms Penny-Paditz on 0423 320 108 or email ruralsafefarmsecure@ gmail.com.

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pain and the Wimmera might be a world apart but for Spanish PhD student Ana Moreno de la Fuente, it is their similarities that will help her to better understand the effects of climate change on agricultural systems.

Ms Moreno, mid-way through a PhD examining the effects of climate change on crops, said Agriculture Victoria’s Horsham site was the ideal location to continue her studies. “The Mediterranean climate and the crops grown in the Wimmera are very similar to what we have in Spain,” she said. “Also, there has already been a lot of research into the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on crops carried out in the Horsham region through the recently concluded 11-year Australian Grains Free Air CO2 Enrichment, AGFACE, program. “We don’t have a FACE facility in Spain and the novel and important research in Horsham will give me an understanding of future climate affecting agriculture in both countries and the opportunity to make a difference.” Ms Moreno arrived in Horsham in June for a six-month re-

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dle of a dust bowl with lots of rugged looking farmers and make the former hard-edged, tough treasurer look like an empathetic, caring kind of guy. Let’s hope he can pull it off. I always thought former Prime Minister John Howard looked very awkward whenever he donned the Akubra and headed bush. You got the sense he was wishing he was anywhere but where he was and was only doing it because the polls said he had to be there. But people knew what to expect

with Howard. All eyes will be on Morrison. As treasurer, he was reluctant to spend more money on drought assistance. So will he suddenly drop the frugality and become pragmatic? Turnbull did a drought tour of NSW less than three months ago and it became glaringly obvious the State Government was more agile in coming up with help for farmers than Canberra. If Morrison just makes the most of being photographed with farmers and looking sadly at dry earth and hungry livestock, it could do him more harm than good. His agriculture minister David Littleproud has already questioned whether climate change is real and said the only thing that can break the drought is rain. So Morrison can’t expect any rev-

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olutionary policy from him. So what are the options? It’s been suggested water held in the Murray Darling Basin with the Environmental Water Holder be released to use to irrigate fodder crops. That’s been given the kybosh by Irrigation Council chief executive Steve Whan, who says the government would have to legislate to allow it to happen, which would make a dangerous precedent. The simple fact of the matter is governments have always grappled with drought policy and are yet to come up with a resounding solution. Let’s hope our new Prime Minister, for his sake at least, does more than just strut his stuff and then dust off his hat and head back to Canberra. If a very real commitment to supporting farmers isn’t given, it will be seen very clearly for what it is.

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The hotel ran a ‘Keg for a Cause’, where patrons paid what they wanted for their pots of beer, be it $3 or $30, knowing every cent would be donated to the cause. Great Northern, through its Let It Pour campaign, donated a keg of beer to 1000 pubs and clubs in a quest to raise $1-million dollars during the weekend. Great Western Hotel publican Danial Ahchow said people lined up at the bar wanting a drink and to donate money as soon as the keg was tapped. “I think that is the very special thing about people from the country. When the chips are down they are always there wanting to help,” he said. Stawell band ‘The Shakes’ provided entertainment and Best’s and Seppelt wineries donated wine for a raffle during the Sunday session. “We are ecstatic with our result,” Mr Ahchow said.

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Agriculture Victoria pulse agronomy research scientists Dr Jason Brand and Tim Nigussie visited Saskatchewan and Alberta as part of the Grains Research and Development Corporation’s Southern Pulse Agronomy program. They were part of a delegation that included South Australian Research Development Institute researchers Drs Christine Walela and Penny Roberts. The group spent two weeks travelling through Canadian pulse-growing regions to meet a range of researchers, growers, agronomists and other industry specialists. Dr Brand said the trip provided his team with access and insight into pulse-management options being researched and adopted by Canadian growers. “We looked at research targeting weed and disease management in pulses and saw how growers were using alternative practices such as inter-cropping or companion cropping,” he said. Among tour highlights was visiting

RESEARCH: From left, Penny Roberts, Jason Brand, Christine Walela and Tim Nigussie during a two-week study tour in Canberra.

Eric Johnson, a weeds researcher from the University of Saskatchewan, and Jessica Weber from the Western Agricultural Research Corporation, who showed the Southern Pulse Agronomy team through several weed-management and herbicide-tolerance trials and introduced them to growers in the Scott region to discuss how their research was being applied on-farm. “As an alternative to, or to complement chemical weed control, a number of new options were being investigated,” Dr Brand said. “We observed several novel weed-control options such as weed clipping and inter-row cultivation that could be combined with laser and microwave technologies and visual

sensing to create nonchemical options in the future. “The discussions with Mr Johnson and Ms Weber will also guide some of the future directions of our herbicide-tolerance and weedmanagement research.” Discussions about research into, and the adoption of, intercropping in Canada were of particular interest to the visiting Australians. At a South East Research Farm near Redvers, Saskatchewan, manager Lana Shaw discussed her group’s focus on intercropping, which was being driven by a desire for higher productivity cropping systems that were less reliant on synthetic fertilisers, herbicides and fungicides.

The grower-led research site featured field trials comparing a range of crop species mixes, while other trials were comparing mixed and skip row systems. “Particularly interesting were the chickpea-flax and lentil-flax mixes, which might provide opportunities to minimise fungicide use with lower disease pressure,” Dr Brand said. “There were lots of interesting observations, but plenty of work is needed to understand the science behind the observations. The intercropping discussions we had with growers, researchers and agronomists in Canada will help us refine where we should be directing our attention in future agronomic research.”

Changes to registration Changes to heavy vehicle registration from October 1 means farmers will no longer be able to buy primaryproducer registration plates for their trucks. Victorian Farmers Federation is concerned this is the first step towards the complete removal of primary-producer registration. VFF Grains Group president Ross Johns said concessions provided by primary-producer registration reflected the lower kilometres travelled by farm vehicles compared with commercial heavy vehicles. He said this ensured farmers were not cross-subsidising the cost of commercial heavy vehicle road users. “Removal of primary-producer registration would place an unfair burden on farmers. The VFF is adamantly opposed to any steps that might lead to complete removal of the registration category,” he said. “In the lead-up to the Victorian election, we are calling on Labor and the Coalition to guarantee the retention of primary-producer registration in its current form. “Additionally, both parties must agree to block any moves towards national harmonisation of state concessions. National harmonisation could threaten primary-producer registration and the concessions available to Victorian farmers.”

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