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fagoat1JOURNALIST: Rhiannon Koch

AS part of the Australian Year of the Farmer celebrations, the Yorke Peninsula Country Times will look at different types of farming; this month we are looking at Angora goats.

 

AS was the practice 40 years ago, sections of Justin Taheny’s farmland near The Pines was cleared of its natural vegetation for cropping.

 

VITERRA is distributing questionnaires to growers, seeking feedback about the company’s storage and handling operations during the 2011-12 harvest.

 

ACCORDING to the National Farmers’ Fed­eration, Australia’s 140,000 farmers produce 93 per cent of its domestic food supply, directly employ 318,000 people and support 1.6million jobs.

 

GRAIN growers preparing for the 2012 cropping season are being equipped with a useful resource.