The CFA is urging farmers in western and north-west Victoria to be vigilant as haymaking gets underway, warning of the risk of haystack fires.

Victoria's CFA’s Longerenong Training Campus has seen a surge in enrolments throughout August and September, ahead of the coming fire season.

Poultry owners in southern Victoria will be required to continue preventing contact between their birds and wild birds, as H5 bird flu continues to spread among wild birds along the state’s coastline.

The Victorian Farmers Federation says a pause on compulsory land acquisitions for the Western Renewables Link should lead to a broader rethink of Victoria’s transmission rollout, including VNI West.

The Victorian Farmers Federation says almost half of Victoria’s roads are now in poor or very poor condition, following a damning report from the state’s Auditor-General.

The Victorian Farmers Federation has become the latest farming organisation to sound the alarm on the impact the Federal Government’s slow-down of visa processing is having on agriculture, saying the situation is creating significant uncertainty for Victorian farmers as the state heads into critical harvest and peak production periods.