The dairy industry in northern Victoria faced dramatic changes between 2001/02 and 2002/03. Drought resulted in a substantial decrease in availability, and subsequent increase in price, of irrigation water and supplementary feed. Most farms recorded substantial net cash flow deficits. Prior to...

The Farmington Plan, despite much varied criticism, has, as Robert L. Talmadge has written, ‘repeatedly been cited as one of the most important, most enlightened, and hopeful instances of library co‐operation in the history of American libraries’. The history of its establishment and...