Fiona Sheean

The last time Vanessa Wellman saw her son Koby, he banged on her car window, grinning, and told her he was heading to Melbourne to see a mate.

Kristen Clark isn’t afraid to hand over some of the toughest calls on her family’s Finley, NSW, dairy to artificial intelligence – and she’s about to spend the next 18 months finding out just how far that trust can go.

When Angus Wilson moved back to Wagga Wagga with his wife, Lilly, in 2014, he bought into Big Springs Water, his family’s bottled water business drawn from natural springs on their cattle station southeast of town.

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.