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Read the full report and the participant responses to our Gippy2Parly visit HERE Gippsland emerged as Australia's pre-eminent region in the NABagribusiness awards announced on December 1. HUGE congratulations to Warragul's Robert Radford, named Australian Agribusiness leader of the year. Also featuring in the finalist lineup was Fresh Leaf Herbs of Clyde and the Macalister Demo Farm at Maffra. One of the judges for the national awards was Agribusiness Gippsland chair Alex Arbuthnot AM. And more awards ... awards... awards... Agribusiness Gippsland was honoured to be involved in two Gippsland Business of the Year Awards – helping judge the agribusiness awards for Baw Baw and East Gippsland shires. Winners of each, respectively, were Dream-Time Wholesale Nursery and Capra goat cheese. The first won the award for its outstanding use of technology and the second for the dogged excellence of a young entrepreneurial couple. Meanwhile, we celebrate – vicariously – the astonishing round of wins clocked up by Longwarry Food Park, named Baw Baw Business of the Year and Victoria’s exporter of the year. Congratulations to all... Learn more/Earn more? ... read the report How can we keep them on the farm? ABARES/Victorian agribusiness conference a real hit "We stand at the threshold of what may well be the greatest challenge in history …Global demand for food will more than double in the coming half-century" … Julian Cribb FOR TOMORROW'S MILLIONS
Combet came to town Latrobe session puts the $$ into smallholdings Finding a niche and making it pay was the secret shared with more than 50 people who attended the Latrobe City Council’s annual small holder forum which attracted participants from Melbourne to Bairnsdale ..."Thank everyone for running the workshop today. The speakers ... were very interesting and inspiring to listen to. Also the catering was the best food I've eaten at a conference!”
More than 70 young agribusiness professionals met at Pakenham in October 2010 MC was Agribusiness Gippsland director Courtney Ferguson (left). Presentations
(left) August 2010 AGI board meeting at ECG Upping food production while curbing greenhouse gas emissions will be the biggest challenge facing Gippsland farming in the next decade. Click here...
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We got stuck into it! …
Overseas farming models offer insights for future Gippsland farming practices according to 
A feast of brainfood at Warragul forum
Our partners are:
Bass Coast
Baw Baw
Cardinia
Casey
East Gippsland
Latrobe City
Mornington Peninsula
South Gippsland
Wellington
West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
(... and we thank them !)
Our supporters are:
Monash University
Southern Rural Water
Lardner Park
Port Phillip Trading
(Nearly 6000 'yes please' recipients)
Click to read the latest
Edition 54
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Past editions
Edition 53 HERE
Edition 52 HERE
Edition 51 HERE
Edition 50 HERE
Edition 49 HERE
Edition 48 HERE
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GIPPYTABLE: (... "Eating and drinking are the most fun you can have sitting down"...)
Latest recipes include:
Gippy Steak Sanger
HERE
PLUS: Lynn Jamieson's dukkah, Peter Anthony's idiot-proof rice and Tanya's vegetarian lasagne with meat ... here.
And grab the prize-winning mudcake recipe from Leongatha Secondary College too ...
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