General News
9 June, 2025
The season ahead
The season is again shaping as a tough feel from mother nature, but fingers crossed the month of June might get somewhere near average rainfall and transform the Wimmera into a sea of green.
Without any subsoil moisture we're again reliant on whatever falls turning it into grain or stockfeed.
Our sowing program is almost complete, and by the time this is printed we should be done.
Unfortunately there are some crops like Vetch which have partially germinated, and have since gone a very blue colour from lack of moisture and may have lost their growth vigor.
We have just finished sowing canola, something we usually start our seeding program with. This now seems like a good idea, given what we have heard from others with a false start.
Aside from farming, keeping up with the fight on mining our precious black soils continues, with a renewed focus on the companies unable to answer the multitude of questions.
Restoration work, water usage and radiation are just three key issues that have not been well articulated by the mining companies, and assessments by government appears to fall well short of the pub test.
The recent reprieve from the Allan labour government for the region on farm land maintaining previous fire services levy rates, will be welcome as we struggle to keep money in the regions.
We are intending to continue to fight for fairness, and complete removal of the legislation supporting the change up by the Allan government, in the Emergency Services Volunteers Levy Tax as it is still on households and businesses.
The levy has been set to clearly balance the poor financial performance standards the Allan labour government has set, and we are continuing to push for scrapping it and a parliamentary enquiry into the usage of the funds as well.
The www.notinourname.com.au website has been launched earlier this week as a campaign to run through until the next election. Given the commitment from the Coalition, we need to ensure all sides of politics realises the inequity in the way that this unfairly places another tax on Victorian’s and needs to be scrapped.
Cheers,
Weidy