Country Hour podcast 22/5/13
On the Country hour today, the Weather Bureau is predicting above average rain and warmer than usual temperatures for most of Australia for June to August. Plus the latest livestock market information...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 23/5/13
On the Country Hour, the latest on the rain with many landholders saying it was welcome but it wasn't enough to be a drought breaker. Plus the latest livestock market information and detailed weather.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 24/5/13
On the Country Hour today, more pomegranate growers in NSW are contemplating their future in the industry. Plus the latest livestock market information and detailed weahter.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 27/5/13
On the Country Hour today, we hear about a long running campaign about accidents involving dark cars or black cars, especially at night, on country roads or at T junctions. Plus the latest livestock...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 28/5/13
On the Country Hour today, the Minister for Primary Industries Katrina Hodgkinson announced that from January 2014, Local Land Services will comprise 11 regions and a future fund of 35 million dollars...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 29/5/13
On the NSW Country Hour today the state opposition on the amalgamation of LHPA, CMA and DPI into one agriculture agency - Local Land Services, what jobs are in demand in the bush, hunting truffles,...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 30/5/13
On the Country Hour today Professor Mark Adams, Dean of the School of Agriculture at the University of Sydney says it timely to have a debate about what we should be doing with our land in the light of...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 31/5/13
On the NSW Country Hour today the NSW minister for agriculture on why she thinks farmers will get better value for money for ag services from the new Local Land Services, how GM contamination is...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 3/6/13
On the NSW Country Hour today, the first day of winter brought long-awaited rain to farmers across much of NSW, more detail on staffing positions in the new LLS, why the country's biggest Commonwealth...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 4/6/13
On the NSW Country Hour today five farmers with a quarter of a million lambs are boycotting Coles for supporting Animals Australia, why a Canberra butcher is giving up on kangaroo meat, the Federal...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 5/6/13
On the NSW Country Hour today Coles denies it pressured Animals Australia to withdraw its in-store campaign, the owners of a pig farm in New South Wales say their privacy has been violated after they...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 6/6/13
On the Country Hour today, Vegetable processor Simplot Australia has announced two of its factories are under imminent threat of closure and the industry says the National Food plan has come too late...
View ArticleCountry Hour podcast 7/6/13
On the Country Hour today, more reaction on the decision by Simplot foreshadowing a possible close to food processing plants in NSW and Tasmania, including opinions from some of the local farmers that...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 10/6/13
On the Country Hour today, the Hendra virus has returned to NSW killing a 12 year old horse on the Mid North Coast. Plus the latest detailed weather information with 10 mm of rain forecast for later in...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 11/6/13
On the Country hour today, the country's biggest rice growing region has harvested its largest crop since 2002. Plus the latest detailed weather and livestock information.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 12/6/13
On the Country hour today, Australian beef exports to Saudi Arabia are up fourfold on last year to 16,000 tonnes this financial year. Plus the latest detailed weather and livestock market information.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 13/6/13
On the NSW Country Hour today farmers are furious about the latest incursion into a piggery to video animal welfare but activists says their actions are justified, a shire councillor has called for an...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 14/6/13
On the Country hour today, a "comprehensive overhaul" of the Native Vegetation Act, the Threatened Species Conservation Act and related biodiversity legislation has been announced at the NSW Nationals...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 17/6/13
On the Country Hour today, eighteen thousand head of cattle from the Top End of Australia will be walked to Hay in NSW. Plus we have the latest livestock market and detailed weather.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 18/6/13
On the Country Hour today, the NSW Budget sees big increases in funding allocated to coal mining regions. Plus the latest detailed weather and livestock information.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 19/6/13
On the Country Hour today, the Bureau of Meteorology is predicting that the next three months will be wetter than normal for most of Australia, with warmer nights for many regions. Plus the latest...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 20/6/13
On the Country Hour today, it took three days of debate but the bill known as the 'water trigger' amendment has passed the Senate, making water now an issue of national significance. Plus the latest...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 21/6/13
On the Country Hour today, a US grains consultant says Australian grain farmers shouldn't be worried about the chequered history of food giant Archer Daniels Midlands as he says it's the corporation's...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 24/6/13
On the Country Hour today, we re-visit the communities of Bookham and Coonabarabran and see how the process of bushfire recovery is progressing. Plus the latest detailed weather and livestock market...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 25/6/13
On the Country Hour today, late breaking rains and a relatively mild June has helped canola crops get away to a good start in parts of the NSW. Plus the latest livestock market information and detailed...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 26/6/13
On the Country Hour today, Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce says he's taking nothing for granted in the race for New England, despite sitting independent MP Tony Windsor retiring. Plus the...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 27/6/13
On the Country Hour today, Farm lobby groups will have to work in a new political landscape, with a new federal agriculture minister. Plus we have the latest detailed weather and livestock market...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 28/6/13
On the Country Hour today, Irrigators in NSW are defending their state's decision not to sign an agreement for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Plus the latest detailed weather and livestock market...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 8/7/13
On the Country Hour today, a second horse in a month has died from the Hendra virus at Macksville on the NSW Mid North Coast. Plus the latest detailed weather and livestock market information.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 9/7/13
On the Country Hour today, another horse dies from Hendra virus this time in the Macleay Valley. Plus the latest livestock market information and detailed weather.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 10/7/13
On the Country Hour today, an environmental think tank in the US is warning that China, the US and India will face serious water shortages in coming years with significant consequences for global grain...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 11/7/13
On the Country hour today the fourth horse death from Hendra as the virus spreads south. Plus then latest livestock market information and detailed weather.
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 12/7/13
On the Country Hour today, Australia's east coast is experiencing a chronic shortage of wheat and stocks could run out by November. Plus the latest livestock market information and detailed weather.
View ArticleCountry Hour podcast 15/7/13
On the Country Hour today, Research and lobby group, the Australian Farm Institute, says carbon farming won't be profitable for years, if an emissions trading scheme is fast tracked. Plus the latest...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 16/7/13
On the NSW Country Hour today, a court injunction to stop more than 4,000 imported rare breed chickens from being destroyed today has been successful. Plus the latest livestock market information and...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 17/7/13
On the NSW Country Hour, coverage of the NSW Farmers Association Conference, the re-election of Fiona Simson as president, announcements by NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell, plus livestock markets and...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 18/7/13
On the NSW Country Hour, coverage of the second day of the NSW Farmers Conference including motions to stop the sale of GrainCorp to multinational ADM, "rescind and revoke" mining licences where there...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 22/7/13
On the NSW Country Hour, the ABC investigation into the deadly legacy of dioxins, how they are still being imported and used to kill weeds on farms, the chief vet on the Hendra outbreak, how frost in...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 23/7/13
On the NSW Country Hour today, farmers and industry groups call for better resourcing for the chemical regulator (APVMA), a former council worker describes his contact with 2,4,5-T and the impact on...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour 24/7/13
On the NSW Country Hour today, a new environmental plan for the Palerang Shire in south-east New South Wales has left some landholders furious, fish farmer Russell Sydenham at Hanging Rock talks about...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 26/7/13
On the Country Hour today, most parts of the Australian macadamia industry have had a tough year. But for one grower in the Nambucca Valley, Peter Zeck, this year could be his best yet. Plus we have...
View ArticleNSW Country Hour podcast 29/7/13
On the Country Hour today, the Federal Government's farm finance package has been criticised by some economists as a being a back to future policy that lacks imagination. Plus the latest detailed...
View ArticleFairfax to axe dozens of jobs at Wollongong's Illawarra Mercury and NSW south...
Fifty jobs will be cut from Wollongong's daily newspaper, the Illawarra Mercury, and publications on the New South Wales South Coast, Fairfax Media announces.
View ArticlePip Courtney: bearing witness to country Australia
Pip presents ABC TV's Landline and champions rural success stories.
View ArticleRural phone users protest Productivity Commission suggestion landline phones...
People living in regional areas are not just worried about poor internet access, they are now worried they will lose their reliable landline phone following a Productivity Commission draft report.
View ArticleTelstra to continue as the dominant mobile phone provider in regional...
Telstra and Optus will not be ordered to offer regulated mobile roaming services to other telcos, with the ACCC arguing it would reduce investment in regional coverage.
View ArticleOutback photographer Paula Heelan brings bush to city in Head On Photo Festival
Queensland outback photographer Paula Heelan impressed judges in one of the country's most prestigious photography festivals with her images of everyday life in the bush.
View ArticleABC chairman takes aim at Australian commercial media for 'clipping' public...
ABC chairman Justin Milne makes an impassioned defence of the public broadcaster, telling business leaders "Australia must decide whether it wants an ABC in the future".
View ArticleOverwhelming support for young farmer who lost both legs in Northern...
An NT farmer who lost both of his legs in a farm accident has been overwhelmed by donations, and aims to spend time educating others in safety.
View ArticleRural land's strong demand continues despite tight lending and fear following...
While housing prices in major cities have slipped, demand for properties in rural areas is outstripping supply, but buyers are finding it harder to meet bank demands.
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