It was a Tuesday morning, and a team of experienced culinary professionals sat around a table, digging into a buffet of whole-grain salads during a taste test. Another promotion will have school kids plant herbs and later harvest them to use at lunch, said project manager Dianne Wortz. The top choice may make its way onto one of the state's most renowned menus, after extensive market testing and focus group feedback, of course. Looking for something low-cost and low-fat with an...

Repairs were done so the bridge would be available during wheat harvest, with the full understanding further repairs would be necessary. Now, too, we are hearing people complain because the bridge on 30th south of Market is closed while it is being repaired. Ask people in this community what their biggest complaint is, and we d bet most will say the condition of the streets in the city. As for materials needing to be ordered and the wait 7days or more, I understand that also. Now, those...

Mr Hanrahan has followed in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great grandfather in farming at the property and said the current drought was the worst he had experienced. The weekend rain has more than doubled last year's November tally of 20mm. Only five days into November, the city has already recorded more than the month's average rainfall of 55 millimeters. Mr Hanrahan said other areas surrounding his property also had high totals. Ballarat news, classifieds and community. At...

And there, as we drove under the chain-fall where the moose was to be weighed and sexed and aged (by dint of teeth being treated as if rings in a tree), were protesters. The agreement, sealed with a handshake, was that whichever of us had the best chance for the best moose (in our book not a trophy, but the best eating) could shoot the moose. We were having some coffee, and there were television crews around, and eventually a couple of us went over to visit with the protesters. In that...

Grain growers were missing out on $157 million a year in canola and wheat crops because of the states' moratoriums on genetic engineering in the industry, report co-author Rick Roush said. National Farmers Federation chief executive Ben Fargher said such potential benefits were one reason farmers should be given the choice of growing genetically modified crops. FARMERS should be allowed to choose whether to grow genetically engineered grain crops, the National Farmers Federation says,...