Australian agribusiness giant GrainCorp has settled a long-running pollution legal case in northern Victoria on the day the case was set to go to trial.

Kevin Carling Green, 63, has been in a four-year fight with GrainCorp Oilseeds over noise and odour emissions at its Numurkah canola oil processing factory.

Mr Green, his wife and daughter have lived in their home, 100 metres from the factory, for 27 years.

In launching his class action he alleged his family could not sleep, had broken out in skin rashes, and that their property had been devalued because of noise and odour emissions from the plant.

The case started as a civil matter between Mr Green and the company but later turned into a class action involving other residents who lived within 1 kilometre of the factory.

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