July-August 2016 Oceania Edition

16 Business View Australia - July - August 2016 The Shire of Loddon is a 6,700 square km area of Central Victoria which hosts a population of 7,365 individuals. Straddling the Central Victorian Goldfields, the southern half of the Shire largely sits within the area known as the Golden Triangle, a geographically diverse region rich in granite outcrops, pockets of premium agricultural land, and boasting a number of prime natural assets such as the Loddon River, Melville Caves, and various State Parks, benefitting local residents in both lifestyle and tourism opportunities. In the northern part of the Shire one can find plains of dry land farming, wetlands, rivers, lakes, woodlands, irrigated farming The Shire of Loddon An agricultural community