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SERVING THE LOCAL DISTRICT

PYALONG IS LESS than an hour from Melbourne’s northern suburbs, and Andrew and Marla Stone feel like the city is creeping closer and closer to their patch of paradise. Some of their clients’ farms have been subdivided into 100 acre hobby farms. And Google keeps sending impatient city drivers down their narrow local roads.

But on this misty June morning the outlook from the Stone’s property is distinctly rural – a tranquil setting for their home, cattle farm and trucking business.

Agri-Trans offers the many transport services needed by its farming clients. The greatest demand is for livestock haulage, but Andrew also carts and spreads fertiliser and transports wool, hay, grain

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