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The NAB Rural Commodities Index moved marginally higher in January, rising by 0.4% month-on-month, underpinned by higher average prices for beef and a more modest increase in dairy prices in the month.

Big River Group has built a big business developing top-quality timber products and solutions.

Already a hit in locations where local building options are at a premium, Prefabulous has even bigger ambitions for its high-quality prefabricated housing.

Taking a chance on his own-design fishing shirts has seen Bigfish Gear founders Josh and Natalie Ker land custom apparel orders here and overseas.

Excellence, innovation and pioneering processes help put Hurford Group hardwood flooring under the feet of countless Australians.

Staying true to a vision of over-delivering on quality and price helped Berton Vineyards become a global success story.

Cotton farmers’ ambitious idea . A decade on, Australian Recycled Plastics is a regional powerhouse.

An overseas challenge to its spraying equipment business was the catalyst for this Ballarat-based company to innovate its way to success.

Zeroing in on points of failure has seen Geographe win a stellar reputation with Australia’s miners. And now the company is looking further afield in its ambition to manufacture excellence.

Meet two men of mettle – and metal – who’ve kept a multigenerational manufacturing tradition alive and thriving in regional Victoria.

From its spare bedroom startup roots, Tasmania-based Bulk Nutrients has grown so successful it’s now the Apple Isle’s largest parcel dispatcher.