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Welcoming BidFood to Gippsland
Food service distributor BidFood Australia is coming to Gippsland. With support from the Victorian Government, Bidfood is investing $13 million in a state of the art cold storage wholesale food distribution facility at Morwell.
Great news for employment in the Latrobe Valley, with 40 new jobs to be created for a mix of skilled technical, transport and management workers.
Carbon Farming Survey
Carbon Farming is farming in a way that reduces Greenhouse Gas emissions or captures and holds carbon in vegetation and soils, but it has its challenges and opportunities.
Food & Fibre Gippsland is supporting research work around carbon farming and carbon pooling. To help that research, we’re asking for 15 minutes of your time to complete an anonymous survey, the results of which will help develop industry driven research data and outcomes.
Drought Hub Webinar
Farmers turn to multiple sources when making farm business decisions. There’s the agronomist, the accountant, the bank manager, and the person at the rural supplies store, to name a few!
But the information can be siloed. Sometimes, farmers simply can’t access the most appropriate advisor for the right advice. So how do we change this?
Hort Connections inspires VegNET Gippsland
Our VegNET Regional Development Officer Bonnie Dawson recently joined around 2000 horticulture industry colleagues at Hort Connections in Brisbane, the first time that people from all over Australia were able to attend since 2019.