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Farmers are getting into renewable energy in a big way and setting up small trading groups to share power.

Irrigation could costs these Gippsland dairy farmers up to $80,000 a year. But a large investment in renewable energy has slashed that — and the system could pay for itself in just seven years.

When you buy your next block of cheese, it may have been produced using solar power — especially if it's from a farm in the rolling hills of southern Tasmania.

Farmers are concerned that upgraded agricultural land in the Murray-Darling is set to become solar farms under a Victorian planning policy vacuum.

In news that will come as no surprise to the green-minded, a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) shows that eating meat significantly contributes to global warming...