Rural News

THE road between Ripley and The Dugandan Hotel rumbled beneath the wheels of classic and vintage cars on Sunday, as motoring enthusiasts took part in…

THERE’S a 25-hectare paddock beside the town of Harrisville. Today, it is nothing more than a ‘blank canvas’. But in less than a month’s time,…

Boonah High School Cattle Club students (left) Teleah Bull and Izzy Jaret proved the Fassifern is a force to be reckoned with when it comes…

For the first time this century, a jabiru has been sighted in a local swamp, which was once regularly visited by a breeding pair. Sightings…

IN THE late 1980s, the MacLaughlin family migrated from the United Kingdom to Australia and developed Skybury Farms, a business that grows and sells coffee…

WHEN Bunjurgen graziers Graham and Jeanette Neilsen set out to breed their Charbray stud herd with polled genetics they knew it would be a costly…

WHEN George Dudek was in his 40’s a chance encounter introduced him to the age old practice of divining. As the story goes, Mr Dudek…

THE owners of seven Scenic Rim nature refuges have been successful in winning State Government grants to assist them in protecting native species and habitats…

THIS year, Eat Local Week turned into Eat Local Month to enable more foodies access to the festival of food, farms and culinary arts. Now…

GO BACK 100 years and you’ll find a world where many Australians worked on horseback, activities that generated business for specialised leather artisans. Whip making…

BOONAH outgoing Rotary president Bronwyn Lacy has managed to pack a lot of good deeds into her year serving the community. “We have raised quite…

THREATS estimated to cost farmers more than $12 million a year have been the focus of planning guides released by the Centre for Invasive Species…