Fiona Sheean

Becky Bulle never planned on coming home to the family farm – she just came back three years ago to help out during uni holidays, and somehow never left.

Since the late 1850s, Chatsworth House, east of Hamilton, has been known as one of south-west Victoria’s iconic farming properties.

It’s 4am at Labertouche and three staff members are heading into the 60-unit rotary dairy to start milking.

Joel White compares growing garlic to playing golf.

Melbourne’s last remaining metropolitan dairy farm has been listed for sale, bringing a potential end to more than 50 years of the Kelly family milking cows within cooee of Kmart and McDonald’s.

Sandra Fishwick stood in the ash at her Mooral Creek, NSW, property in November 2019 and counted the cost of the catastrophic bushfire that had swept through weeks earlier.

In a district dominated by operations milking 500 to 1000 cows, Mal and Kay-Anne Croft are an anomaly.

A decade of data-driven breeding has delivered genetic gains that previous generations of dairy farmers could only dream of, with industry figures revealing the average merit of top-rated bulls has more than doubled since 2015.

Chloe Campbell never thought she’d become a doctor.

For Country Women’s Association of Victoria East Gippsland Group president Robyn McKinley, “it’s not just about scones, jam and cream”.

Karen Hood has been nominated in the 2025 Shine Awards. To nominate an outstanding rural or regional woman you know, click here.

A challenging green drought season has seen Graeme Hamilton burn through silage reserves on his dairy farm at Mount Gambier, South Australia.

From boilermaker to Nuffield Scholar, Jackie Morrison’s journey to regenerative farming hasn’t followed a conventional path.

From city-based sign language teacher to cattle farmer, Catherine Hardy has spent decades helping those who need it most.

When Rachel Stewart spotted a sign at her local Castlemaine service station advertising a suicide prevention workshop in 2016, it was the first time she’d seen the word suicide used openly in a country town.

Cass McCormack has refused to let almost two centuries of the Mountain Cattleman’s Association of Victoria fade into history during her presidency.

From some of Western Australia’s most productive country to its most challenging – that’s the journey Alys and Harry McKeough took when they swapped their Northam cropping operation for 179,000 hectares of Gascoyne rangelands 15 years ago.

Given his Irish descent, one could be forgiven for thinking it was all luck that Brian Corr was able to buy his own dairy farm, share farm another and build up to a 900 cow milking herd in the space of 2½ years.

Increasing efficiency while reducing their environmental footprint has been a key component of Chris and Tania Parker’s Summit Park Enterprises since they bought their 80ha property at Hamilton 14 years ago.

Among the picturesque rolling green hills of the Huon Valley in Tasmania’s south is a fifth generation family business leading the world in on-farm innovation.