Submissions
Submissions made in 2026
Submission to the Select Committee on Productivity in Australia
Submission to VicGrid – Draft Renewable Energy Zones Consultation
Submissions made in 2025
Submission to the National Bioenergy Feedstock Strategy (DAFF) November 2025
Submission to the National Food Security Discussion Paper September 2025
Submission to the Victorian Draft Transmission Plan July 2025
Submission to the Inquiry into the Supply of Homes in Regional Victoria
Submission to the Inquiry into Community Consultation Practices June 2025
Submission to the Productivity Commission – Net Zero June 2025
Submission to Infrastructure Victoria’s 30-Year Strategy (2025) May 2025
Here are some submissions we have made during the past few years to decision-makers on behalf of our communities:
Rainbow Weather Radar Project
The Wimmera Southern Mallee is a major agricultural and food producing region, producing more than half of Victoria’s total grain crop, oilseeds and pulses.
Accurate real-time weather information is essential to support these industries. WSM Development and the region successfully advocated for investment in a new Bureau of Meteorology radar station to be built at Rainbow.
The radar was completed in 2020 to fill a gap in the existing radar network.
2020 WDA Wimmera radar – benefits review
Photo credit: Dimboola Banner
Wimmera Broadacre Farming Net Zero Emissions Project
Agriculture is the largest source of carbon emissions, and our region has set some ambitious goals to address this issue before 2050.
The Wimmera Broadacre Farming Net Zero Emissions Project worked with farm managers to improve the adoption of carbon calculators to improve environmental and financial decisions and access to secondary carbon markets.
A variety of project recommendations and findings are now being implemented by a range of agencies to increase farm productivity, profitability and protection of natural resources across the region.
- Net_Zero_summary_presentation
- Net zero farming economic simulation – Wimmera Report – Feb 2024 FINAL
- NetZero Wimmera Farming IO Modelling – WSMD Pres Feb 2024
- Road Map
Drought Hub
In 2019, WSMD responded to the draft Australian Government Future Drought Funding Plan 2020 to 2024.
The program aims to help farmers and communities become more prepared for, and resilient to, the impacts of drought.
As a result, The Victorian Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (or Drought Hub) was set up with stakeholders to help farmers, agricultural businesses and communities become more resilient to the impacts of future droughts.
The University of Melbourne leads the hub and Birchip Cropping Group leads the North West regional node.
Main photo: Simone Dalton.
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