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20 May 2024
Grants support local wine industry and small farms

A SMART Farms Small Grant of $80,000 will help wine-grape growers and vignerons throughout the North East deal with climate change impacts. The federal funding, announced on Sunday, responds to last year’s North East Black Summer bushfires which caused widespread damage across the region’s premium wine sector, with losses from smoke taint costing tens of millions of dollars.“The farm gate va...

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