CITY slickers would have been forgiven for thinking that Martin Place looked and smelt a little different this week, with cattle, sheep and farmers descending on the busy Sydney square. As part of an innovative campaign by Target 100, Martin Place transformed from the usual concrete jungle into a virtual farm, complete with livestock, bushland […]

DESPITE the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting this week that there was 19,700 fewer people farming in 2011 than in 2006 and that an average of 294 farmers were lost every month during the past 30 years, farmers are fighting back, trying to turn their industry and its image around. The Year of the […]