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Southern Mallee Landcare Network

Locality: Hopetoun, Victoria

Phone: +61 478 170 765

Address: 75 Lascelles Street 3396 Hopetoun, VIC, Australia

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22.01.2022 Great opportunity for Buloke Shire landowners to access funding for technology apps and devices to change the way you farm in the future

21.01.2022 After favourable weather conditions this spring, small localised clusters of Australian plague locusts have been seen in west and north-west Victoria. Help mini...mise the impact of locusts on agricultural industries and your community by controlling locusts on your land. If you find any locusts, report them by calling 136 186. For more information, visit agriculture.vic.gov.au/locusts See more

19.01.2022 Great opportunity for kids this school holidays. Get them out exploring their environment.

19.01.2022 A MALLEE FARMER'S SIMPLE GUIDE TO RAINFALL It seems we always welcome rain as farmers - except for those times we don’t. This is a very simple guide to help you... out to save asking. If we have a 20-30mm Rainfall event in: JAN - MARCH: Welcomed and cursed. Great for stored moisture and profits of chemical companies. Kills family time. APRIL: Celebrated wildly if occurs around Anzac Day. MAY: Dancing in the paddocks rain event. Causes ABC radio to push farmers to publicly state that this could be their best year ever. Enables a public proclamation of the ‘break’. JUNE: Yeah we'll take it. It’s June. If an okay April / May, not too fussed as its cold and the crops aren’t growing much. JULY: Welcomed - as long as it’s already not too wet, then some nervousness the crops aren’t sending their roots down in prep for a dry spring. If you come to visit expect to get your car dirty on the muddy driveway. AUGUST: Critical. Nervousness as weather warming up and frosts a risk. Caution: a good Aug rainfall event can lull non farmers into thinking the season can not go wrong from here. They would be wrong. SEPTEMBER: Season defining. A second follow up event even better. Lot’s of enjoyable crop crawls. Media forgets us as there are no more drought and dust photos. Can allow farmers minds to drift to the possibility a positive season finish. If we have a 10-20mm Rainfall event in: 1st WK OCT: Welcomed as will benefit most crops. Hay guys grumpy. 2nd WK OCT: May be welcomed, depending on what happened in wk one. Hay guys still grumpy. 3rd WK OCT: Tolerated, as unlikely to do damage. 4th WK OCT: Tolerated, depending on rainfall week 3. Creates harvest nerves. 1st WK NOV: Frustrating, as just delaying start of harvest. 2nd WK NOV: If no rainfall in wk 1 - gives opportunity to stop and fix stuff not picked up preseason, or broken in harvest week 1. Major Harvest Rainfall events: ONE: Okay TWO: Tolerable if conditions are good (sunshine / wind) immediately following. THREE: Frustrating, with risk of downgrades and crop damage. Glass half full farmers will speak of stored moisture for following year. FOUR OR MORE: Completely over it. Harvesters in shed by Christmas unlikely. Don’t talk to us. Hope this makes the reasons for our moods, conversations and paddock dancing clearer. SUMMARY: There is no such thing as bad weather, just poor timing, different perspectives and bad choice of clothing.

16.01.2022 I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement over the last 12 months, it’s been a tough year for everyone but here’s hoping to an even better 2021. I won’t be in the office but I‘m still working from home so if you need me contact either via Facebook or email is preferred until I can get a work phone sorted out. Cheers

14.01.2022 We should all thank a farmer but also their wives (and daughters) who feed and water ( sometimes beer lol) the men, do part runs, run the men around the farm, drive tractors/trucks/headers and lastly but most importantly stand by their husband or dad even when times are tough and providing emotional support.

13.01.2022 Great information on our native stumpy tailed lizards

13.01.2022 If you haven’t already download the app, let’s get all the Mallee species in the count.

13.01.2022 How can you get involved in the Landcare Farming Program? on Thursday, 12 Novembe...r at 12.30pm (AEDT). In this #webinar you’ll hear from Mick Taylor, Landcare Farming Program Manager about the program and the opportunities for you to get involved. The Landcare Farming Program objective is to strengthen connections between #Landcare and the agricultural sector, and to increase our collective contribution to Australian agricultural and community resilience. To register or check out the full conference webinar program, visit https://landcareaustralia.org.au/national-landcare-confere/ #agriculture #farming #community #resilience

12.01.2022 The wildlife pond installed at Lake Corrong, Hopetoun, once again proving how valuable water is to our native birds, mammals, reptiles and insects. Also thank you to our amazing volunteers (you know who you are ) for the revegetation and continued maintence to enhance the areas potential.

11.01.2022 Some causing havoc at Hopetoun.

11.01.2022 Read to meet our youngest cohort member ever? Ollie Hallam is just 17 years old. He's developing a farm management app which allows farmers to task manage on a geographic format and store data in one easy, accessible place. How good is that! #aginnovation #agtech #agsoftware

09.01.2022 Great advice for hay and harvest season in the Mallee, pull up safely off the road let the farmers and contractors pass, won’t take too long and you can be on your way because essentially they are the ones putting food on your table #thankafarmerforyournextmeal

09.01.2022 Finally to print please feel free to share https://www.sunrisetosunsetphotography.com.au/

08.01.2022 Southern Mallee Roundup Edition 5 Spring 2020. Has been emailed for subscribers which is FREE.

06.01.2022 Make sure your National Vendor Declarations are current versions 0720, other versions will not be accepted as of today.

05.01.2022 We are very excited to bring you the 'Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride' harvest video! This has been a great community project and we would like to thank everyone involved in making this happen. We need your help to get this road safety message out into our community so PLEASE SHARE!!!

02.01.2022 Introducing the Lamb Marketing Masterclass! Join our guest speakers including industry leading farmers, advisors and researchers to master your lamb marketing. Register now for this four part webinar series, starting this Thursday 5 November, at https://bit.ly/2Tt3QUk