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Sophie Baldwin

I have spent my life in Northern Victoria. As a former dairy farmer for 24 years, I am passionate about agriculture and I love the spirit and passion of the farming community. There are so many people doing great things and so many great stories to be written. Personally I am a mum to two beautiful girls who are now finding their own way in the world leaving me plenty of time to pursue my other passions of running and triathlon.

Basin plan discussed at Murray Dairy meeting

The first Murray Dairy agronomy network meeting was held in Echuca recently, with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, water policy and water use on the agenda.

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Zack’s still on knife’s edge

LIFE can change in a split second. A split second that can be forever. And no-one is more acutely aware of this daily risk than Tongala family Zack and Harly Adam, and their 11-month-old daughter Grace.

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An accidental affair that changed two lives forever

IT WAS a lovely day to be alive – and to be alive in Sydney. It was 1945 and the war, which had dragged much of the world through its bloody course for six years, was winding down. And on that lovely day, which would change her life forever...

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Bunnaloo family flees the NSW inferno

BUNNALOO’S Luke and Kate Barlow and sons Lachie, 12, and Harry, 11, were forced to join a convoy escaping the NSW coastal resort of Bermagui ahead of the ‘catastrophic’ predictions for the weekend.

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People power starts to turn back the tide

IT HAS been just on a week since thousands of southern basin irrigators, farmers and community members descended on Canberra to voice their anger and concern over the failings of the MurrayDarling Basin Plan.

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Mass protest demands immediate action on Murray Darling Basin Plan

TRUCKS numbering in the hundreds, with horns honking and slogans plastered across their trailers, others loaded with hay and machinery, surrounded Parliament House and thousands of men, women and children converged on Canberra calling for #cantheplan.

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Convoy to Canberra calling to #cantheplan

RURAL Australia is facing a crisis. And it is not just drought. Poor water policy and an out of control Murray-Darling Basin Plan are sending our farmers and the rural communities that depend on agriculture for survival out to sea – along with...

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Meredith Hodder: Calling in the Heavy Weights

COMFORT ZONE is a great place to be, but nothing changes if you stay there. Just ask Rochester’s Meredith Hodder, a nurse unit manager at Echuca’s hospital. If she hadn’t of taken a deep breath and forced herself to enter her first ever...

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Thousands join protest

DEMANDING ‘Littleproud has got to go’, ‘Enough is enough you don’t give a stuff’ and ‘Sussan Ley is MIA’, Barooga mixed farmer Carly Marriot cut a determined figure as she led irrigators and community members through the main street of...

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Bonita inspired to change tack

Transitioning her farm’s milk pool to A2 has seen Tongala dairy farmer Bonita Koch awarded Rabobank’s annual Dr John Morris Business Development prize at a graduation dinner in Sydney in July.

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Draft plan calls for brumbies removal from Barmah National Park

A NEW management plan is calling for the removal of brumbies from Barmah National Park and the banning of horse riding in the park.

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Super cow is top dog

THE fifth National Herd Development Winter Fair is over, but it certainly will be one to remember for Gorbro Holsteins, Cohuna, taking out — among its many accolades — supreme senior champion and premier breeder.

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Riverine Herald

Super cow is top dog

THE fifth National Herd Development Winter Fair is over, but it certainly will be one to remember for Gorbro Holsteins, Cohuna, taking out — among its many accolades — supreme senior champion and premier breeder. It was Eagle Ridge Amazing G...

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Farmers rally to start taking control of their water future

A GROUP of innovative dairy farmers looking for a solution to retaining water and wealth in the Torrumbarry irrigation district are in the process of establishing a water platform to benefit both local investors and irrigators.

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Rice industry condemned, Scoullar calls it quits

Speak Up Campaign chair Shelley Scoullar has watched the devastation left in the wake of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and poor water policy but she could have never imagined her farm would become another rural statistic. THERE have many casualties...

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Local farmer predicts problems with our food prices and imports

WHERE will our food come from in the future?

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Local farms becoming Ground Zero

ROZ Berryman is worried about the future of irrigated agriculture.

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32MM lifesaver: The rains have finally started to fall in region

THURSDAY’S soaking 18mm of rain in Echuca-Moama might have been far less than the forecast 40-75mm but it has been enough to bring smiles to a desperate farming community.

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