Annie Brown

A Victorian company releases Australia's first aluminium wine bottles to reduce its carbon footprint, while acknowledging drinkers may take some convincing. 

Farmers in southern New South Wales are protecting parts of their land in perpetuity, fencing off tens of hectares for conservation.  

Australia apple growers will have easier access to the Canadian export market following trade negotiations between the nations.

Officers euthanase more than 1,700 sheep and find more than 700 sheep dead on Steven John Ralston's Chinkapook farm within three months.

A Victorian woman has ridden a bucking bronco into the history books, winning a World Championship in Wyoming in the United States. 

The 28-year-old from regional Victoria becomes bronc riding world champion, just 18 months after starting in the sport.

Retaining staff, attracting the next generation of drivers, making it easier to drive into Melbourne and the impact the poor quality of regional roads was on the agenda at the Livestock and Rural Transporters Association conference at the Move Museum in Shepparton. 

As demand for truffle flavour grows, the industry fears most people are not getting the real deal.

Thirteen years since the start of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, a comprehensive evaluation finds rivers, wetlands and lakes are in far better shape.

Rain brings some relief to drought-affected farmers in Victoria, but most of the state is still desperately dry.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission green-lights the merger of two of the country's largest dairy processors, saying a substantial change in market dynamics is "unlikely".

Australia's sheep flock continues to decrease due to drought, with ewe numbers expected to drop 9 per cent over the next year.

The apple and pear industry is in a "depressing place", but new growers are still coming on board and are diversifying crops to stay afloat.

Red wine varieties like shiraz decline in popularity while consumers opt for low-alcohol and sweeter wines like moscato.

An Australian tomato processor is selling its seed and skin by-products to beauty brands making moisturisers, facial scrubs and sunscreen as the industry is squeezed by cheap imports.

Permits for two renewable energy projects in regional Victoria have been approved despite community opposition.

Cattle carcasses are buried and composted on a research farm in north-east Victoria in preparation for an emergency disease outbreak.

A discovery by amateur palaeontologists in northern Victoria has helped change our understanding of reptile life on earth.

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative of most land-based creatures first evolved.

Despite global uncertainty, tariffs, Trump and trade wars, demand for Australian beef is breaking records.

Native vegetation returns in abundance to Victoria's Barmah National Park in an "amazing" rebound an ecologist says has never been witnessed before.

Farmers running out of feed and water are being forced to sell livestock in huge numbers as drought conditions roll on in southern Australia. 

Supermarkets struggle to meet demand for cottage cheese as the product becomes the subject of viral videos.

Rangers are scouring Victoria's high country for a horse that escaped handlers during a re-enactment of Banjo Patterson's Man From Snowy River poem. 

Fruit and vegetable traders at Melbourne Market say a revised rent proposal from the state government landlord is still too expensive.