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Victorian Country Hour
English, Daily News, 1 season, 257 episodes, 4 hours, 46 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
English, Daily News, 1 season, 257 episodes, 4 hours, 46 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Research is arguing snakes, like the widely-found brown snake, can be hugely beneficial to cropping operations and could be a friend to farmers by chomping through thousands of mice.
2/2/2024 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The amount of Australian wine being exported globally has declined in the past year, as people around the world drink less wine.
2/1/2024 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Huge increases in insurance premiums are pushing farmers to consider running the gauntlet and leaving some of their machinery uninsured.
1/31/2024 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
1/30/2024 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A North East Victorian zucchini grower near Toolamba says supermarket price gouging is as bad as it's ever been.
1/29/2024 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers have welcomed news the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will conduct an inquiry into Australia's supermarket sector, including the difference between farm gates prices and checkout prices.
1/26/2024 • 54 minutes, 55 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces Treasurer Jim Chalmers will direct the ACCC 12-month inquiry into supermarkets and price-gouging.
1/25/2024 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Authorities are concerned after months of rain and farmers rushing to get hay mowed and baled that haystack fires could be on the rise in coming months.
1/24/2024 • 54 minutes, 47 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian wine growers are optimistic trade with China will soon resume, as distributors prepare for the market to re-open.
1/23/2024 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
More drama at the Victorian Farmers Federation with commodity presidents calling for the board to meet with members
1/22/2024 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Did the BOM's El Nino forecast tank livestock markets?
1/19/2024 • 25 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Labour hire company owes workers and creditors $28 million, says all workers will receive money owed
1/18/2024 • 30 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Big rains hit Victoria again
1/17/2024 • 30 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rain-interrupted grain harvest finally drawing to a close for some
1/15/2024 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Class action over glyphosate product Roundup nears its end, so what could it mean for the future of the important chemical?
1/12/2024 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Major industrial dispute at the nation's key ports causing critical freight backlogs
1/11/2024 • 55 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers talk about what the flooding is like at their farms
1/9/2024 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Flooding rains hit the state - hear from farmers battling the elements
1/8/2024 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
2024 is looking promising for lamb producers, with supply and demand evening out - and stronger prices at the saleyards this week as a result.
1/5/2024 • 29 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
More than 100 farmers in western Victoria have formed a group to campaign against a windfarm that's proposed for construction on, or adjacent to, their land.
1/4/2024 • 29 minutes, 49 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian producers discuss how heavy rain across the state has been affecting their farms.
1/3/2024 • 29 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Discover the agricultural roots of New Year's resolutions.
1/2/2024 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
12/29/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
12/28/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
12/22/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The VFF has won a major court battle and will now push on with reform
12/21/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Court rooms have made major decisions on the future of Victorian agriculture today
12/20/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Shadow Agriculture Minister Emma Kealy on the proposed animal welfare legislation
12/19/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Animal welfare legislation is released for review in Victoria
12/18/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Disaffected VFF members could find out on Wednesday whether they can proceed with a vote on kicking out president Emma Germano
12/15/2023 • 55 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Prediction that one third of farmland in Australia could be covered in wind and solar farms by 2050
12/14/2023 • 55 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rain putting the brakes on grain harvest across the state
12/8/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Opposition slams politicisation of Victorian public service, says it has hurt regional Victorians
12/7/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Livestock markets jump up after widespread rain
12/6/2023 • 55 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Ag production tipped to fall $16 billion this financial year
12/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Federal Nationals call for ACCC inquiry into allegations of supermarket price gouging
12/4/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian Water Minister Harriet Shing on Murray-Darling Basin policy
12/1/2023 • 53 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
So many stolen sheep that one Victorian farmer can't get insurance
11/30/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rain is falling around Victoria and some farmers are worried about flooding.
11/29/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian Country hour broadcast's live from the Dairy Australia AGM
11/28/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The Greens and the government agree to extend the Murray_Darling Basin Plan
11/27/2023 • 54 minutes, 37 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rain is falling halting grain harvest, filling dams and we have an in depth weather report
11/24/2023 • 54 minutes, 53 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting from goFarm's Sandmount Farms operation at Katunga.
11/23/2023 • 50 minutes, 50 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Managing one billion dollars in agricultural assets, AAM's Garry Edwards talks markets and movements
11/22/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
AAM's Garry Edwards on cattle prices, land prices and a focus on chicken
AAM's Garry Edwards is the managing director of a one billion dollar agriculture business and he has also signed up to be deputy chair of Cattle Australia. We talk about why he thinks Australian cattle are undervalued, land prices and why his business is investing in chicken.
11/22/2023 • 14 minutes, 16 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Pakenham saleyards to close in 2024
11/21/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Concern over a mineral sands mine, EU approves glyphosate and the state of agriculture with Tony Maher
11/20/2023 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from the 2023 Cattle Australia AGM
11/17/2023 • 53 minutes, 24 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
As the basin plan extension gets closer to entering parliament a new campaign has been launched in the Goulburn Valley
11/16/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Only one farmer was consulted by the Victorian government on animal welfare legislation
11/15/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A partnership between East Timor and Victorian agricultural scientists is helping to control an outbreak of African Swine Fever
11/14/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmer Power has decided to disband and throw its support behind the United Dairyfarmers of Victoria
11/13/2023 • 54 minutes, 42 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
15 protesters who shut down an abattoir in Benalla in April have been charged
11/10/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A pair of farmers are preparing their second shipment of wheat to Oman
11/9/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
11/8/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt talks farm emissions for net zero and Australia's relationship with China
11/7/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
National Farmers Federation President David Jochinke takes your questions on the Country Hour
11/6/2023 • 54 minutes, 17 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Need for Feed is on a big hay run to fire hit areas of New South Wales
11/3/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The US President wants to stop the decline of farmer numbers in America
11/2/2023 • 54 minutes, 43 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Allan Fels is leasing an inquiry to assess if the cost of meat and vegetables is fair
11/1/2023 • 54 minutes, 33 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Water, water, water on the Country Hour as three key developments occur in the basin plan and we talk October rain
10/31/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers celebrate as trade negotiations with the European Union collapse
10/30/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
10/27/2023 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Food processor SPC is asking community members in the Goulburn Valley to buy shares in the company
10/26/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
David Jochinke becomes President of the National Farmers Federation
10/25/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The Victorian Agriculture Minister doesn't want to get involved in the dairy strikes in her state
10/24/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers say no to deal with EU, China may take Australian wine and Saputo makes deal with tanker drivers
10/23/2023 • 54 minutes, 50 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Dairy workers returned to work today but may strike again next week
10/20/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Abattoir profits increase as farm gate prices fall in the meat industry
10/19/2023 • 54 minutes, 24 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Tens of thousands of litres of milk is being dumped in Victoria due to strike action
10/18/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Pear trees being ripped out, apples barely increasing in price and calls for supermarket regulation for apple and pear growers
10/17/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Dairy workers and tanker drivers are set to go on strike in Victoria this week
10/16/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The battle for control of the Victorian Farmers Federation has entered the court room
10/13/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian Roads Minister, Melissa Horne talks maintenance on the Country Hours
10/12/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The Victorian government and a major dairy cooperative are investing in lab made or precision fermented milk
10/11/2023 • 54 minutes, 36 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Have you had the Q-Fever vaccine?
10/10/2023 • 54 minutes, 21 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Small meat producers in south east Australia say they are facing a crisis because they can't get their animals killed
10/9/2023 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
10/6/2023 • 53 minutes, 34 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The good, the bad and the ugly of rain
10/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
From fires to flood, heavy rain falls across Victoria
10/4/2023 • 51 minutes, 13 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
10/3/2023 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
10/2/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
9/29/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Pear farmers are facing continued low prices and rising costs with many exiting the industry
9/27/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The Dairy farmer committee of Victorian Farmers Federation have quit en mass to join a new lobby group
9/26/2023 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Cattle prices continue to fall
9/25/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting live from the 175th Royal Melbourne Show.
9/22/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rare Upton tractors on display at Henty and switching from varroa mite eradication to pest management.
9/21/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
A major decision is made to abandon attempts to eradicate the destructive bee pest varroa mite and move to managing the invasive mite
9/20/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The search for a suckling pig abattoir, the floor price of sheep and medicinal gum trees
9/19/2023 • 54 minutes, 55 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
No one in Victoria will kill suckling pig and chef's in Melbourne have say they have to take it off the menu
9/18/2023 • 54 minutes, 10 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A parliamentary inquiry into the October 2022 floods tours regional Victoria and farmers talk about their experiences
9/15/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting live from the Irrigation Farmer's Network trial site in Kerang.
9/14/2023 • 54 minutes, 11 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A Victorian flower farmer is the national winner of the 2023 Rural Women's Award
9/13/2023 • 54 minutes, 19 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
China is once again Australia's biggest agricultural export market but if it sneezes will Australian ag catch a cold
9/12/2023 • 54 minutes, 52 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
It's not a drug but its production is regulation like one, the hemp industry in Victoria is being examined
9/11/2023 • 54 minutes, 18 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Organic producers in Victoria have been hit by a last minute decision by major abattoir to stop killing their animals
9/8/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers are struggling to sell light sheep, agents say they aren't seeing it and who is making the money?
9/7/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Australian Dairy Farmers call on the ACCC to block a deal where Coles will buy dairy factories
9/6/2023 • 53 minutes, 27 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The Victorian Farmers Federation rejects a second call for a spill of it's leadership
9/5/2023 • 54 minutes, 8 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
More lumpy skin concerns for Australian exports to Indonesia and a class action against Roundup in court
9/4/2023 • 54 minutes, 30 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Bees on the move, beef and lamb prices remain flat and a lifetime in scallops
9/1/2023 • 53 minutes, 17 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The buffer zone that allows wild dogs to be controlled on public land could be srapped in October
8/31/2023 • 53 minutes, 50 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Varroa mite changes for Victorian bee keepers
8/30/2023 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Meet Ali the wheelchair bound working dog who is back working sheep near Mansfield
8/29/2023 • 54 minutes, 46 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Outbreak of varroa mite found south of Balranald near the Victorian border
8/28/2023 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Varroa mite at the border, Victorian Water Minister speaks and Ausnet apology to farmers
8/25/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Is lamb getting cheaper at the supermarket?
8/24/2023 • 54 minutes, 18 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Sheep are being shot in the paddock as the bottom falls out of the market
8/23/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour - Almond industry update
Latest update and news from the almond and bee industry
8/22/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The spread between Australian and New Zealand milk prices are at 10 year highs
8/21/2023 • 54 minutes, 10 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Sheep prices so low that some lambs are being killed at the saleyards
8/18/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Urea shortage, dairy price slide and Argentina beef ban on today's Country Hour
8/17/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
8/16/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers drive tractors through Melbourne's CBD to protest planned power lines
8/15/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Replanting wine grapes, Graincorp on China barley and Victorians win big at Mt Isa rodeo
8/14/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
The Country Hour gets an answer on a mystery abandoned harvester on the roadside
8/11/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Does agriculture have and image problem at the high school level
8/10/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A US farming group starts petition calling for restrictions on Australian lamb imports into America
8/9/2023 • 54 minutes, 36 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Barley prices lift as China drops tariffs but wine growers continue to wait for a China change
8/8/2023 • 53 minutes, 37 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Warwick Long and Angus Verley live from Sheepvention 2023 in Hamilton
8/7/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Lamb skins are so worthless that farmers are being charged by abattoirs to send them to landfill
8/4/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Australia's largest fertiliser manufacturer, Incitec Pivot could be sold to an Indonesian company, Pupak Kaltim
8/3/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Loch Garry rebuilt nine months after floods burst the levee in October 2022
8/2/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Grain prices fall dramatically, big dollars for powerline court cases and Joel Fitzgibbon joins the show
8/1/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
A lumpy skin detection in Australian cattle that are overseas has led to a temporary halt to the market for four facilities.
7/31/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Warwick Long and Angus Verley live at the Victorian State Merino Field Days in Marnoo
7/28/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
David Williams from Kidder Williams on the outlook for agricultural investment and farm prices
7/27/2023 • 54 minutes, 55 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
'My farm will be illegal in ten years, don't let it happen to you,' warns egg farmer
7/26/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek says the Murray-Darling Basin can not be delivered on time.
7/25/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney has addressed the gathering and responded to questions from VFF members
Former UDV president Bill Pyle says it's important for farming commodities to have a united voice, it comes as UDV councillors from form a new lobby group
VFF President Emma Germano says members have a fear of change and denies the dispute is about power or money
7/24/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Hobby farmer interest adds to demand for shedding sheep
7/21/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Russia launches strikes against Ukrainian grain ports, so what does that mean for markets, and for global food security?
7/20/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
7/19/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
UDV president Mark Billing announces plans for a new dairy lobby group, separate to the VFF
7/18/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Agriculture Victoria searches for answers over sudden deaths of at least 10 horses
7/17/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Damning review of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
7/14/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
ABC Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from Hamilton at an event to discuss moving to sheep breeds which shed wool
7/12/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Memories of last year's flooding fresh as Murray River at Barham reaches moderate flood level
7/11/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
VFF accuses AMEO of misleading landowners over its right to access their land
7/10/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
7/7/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Tanya Plibersek writes to the Murray Darling Basin Authority asking it to report on the likelihood of the Basin Plan's mid-2024 water recovery deadlines being met
7/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Transmission Company Victoria defends VNI West against widespread opposition
7/4/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Global inflationary pressure smashes wool markets
7/3/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
New milk season starts tomorrow, processors continue to jostle for supply
6/30/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
St Arnaud farmer says AEMO is behaving like it's the 'wild west' over VNI West
6/29/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting from the Grains Innovation Park in Horsham
6/28/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Fair Work Ombudsman alleges underpayment of workers by Werribee South vegetable grower
6/27/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Lab meat could be coming soon to Australian restaurants
Lab-grown meat could hit the shelves by March next year
6/26/2023 • 8 minutes, 39 seconds
Sustainable diesel project proposed for Mildura
The Frontier Impact Group project would be capable of producing 26 million litres of renewable diesel per year.
6/26/2023 • 4 minutes, 55 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Cultured meat could be coming to Australian supermarket shelves, so would you eat it?
6/26/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
It's a year on from the first varroa mite detection in Australia
6/23/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Glyphosate pricing almost back to pre-COVID levels after soaring during the pandemic
6/22/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Victorian Country Hour broadcast live from a wool shed in Kanya, near St Arnaud
6/21/2023 • 54 minutes, 51 seconds
VFF members push to sack board
A group of Victorian farmers is pushing to dismiss the Victorian Farmers Federation board over frustrations about declining membership and financial losses.
6/21/2023 • 16 minutes, 27 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting from the BestWool/BestLamb Conference in Bendigo
6/20/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
6/19/2023 • 53 minutes, 51 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmer says flood recovery roadworks will actually make the next flooding event worse at his place
6/15/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers converge on Canberra to call for Senate inquiry into transmission infrastructure
6/14/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Beef price slide hurts dairy farmers
6/13/2023 • 53 minutes, 16 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
6/12/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
Champion shearer Scotland-bound for Golden Shears
6/9/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
More rain around the state, record falls in some areas
6/8/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers welcome soaking rains across large parts of the state
6/7/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farm groups say reform to the labour hire industry would force employers to pay inexperienced workers the same rate as long-term employees
6/6/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers bemoan lack of spare parts
6/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
6/1/2023 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Researchers discover garlic variety that can inhibit coronavirus and the flu
5/31/2023 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Aussie garlic variety could ward off COVID and flu, Doherty Institute finds
An Australian variety of garlic could reduce coronavirus and flu-related infections, according to new medical research.
5/31/2023 • 4 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Dairy farmers receive payout from Fonterra over 2016 clawback
5/30/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Outrage after major change to VNI West route comes after feedback period closes
5/29/2023 • 55 minutes, 5 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Meat industry slams inquiry into pig welfare
5/26/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
5/25/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Can varroa mite be eradicated?
The secret life of varroa mite may hold the key to its destruction and savings the bees
5/25/2023 • 8 minutes, 4 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
State Government fends off criticism over what the budget means for regional Victorians
5/24/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Learning to walk cattle and goats teaches kids about food and farming
Showing cattle is an age old tradition of country shows, now some school kids are taking on the challenge and learning about farming along the way
5/24/2023 • 5 minutes, 45 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Death knell for native timber industry
5/23/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Milk processors warn factories may have to close
5/22/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
5/19/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Bulla announces opening price of $8.80 - $9.60 per kilogram of milk solids
5/18/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Livestock focus in new emissions reduction target
5/17/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
National Irrigators' Council fears more water buybacks to come
5/16/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Elders posts big drop in half-year profit, still makes almost $83 million before tax and interest
5/15/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Elders CEO defends 46 per cent profit slump in half year results
Rural service provider Elders Limited revealed a 46 per cent drop in half year profit, compared to the same time last year
5/15/2023 • 9 minutes, 1 second
Victorian Country Hour
Coalition would scrap new biosecurity levy if returned to power
5/12/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
VFF Grains Group seeks legal advice on whether it can block the liquidation of its share portfolio
5/11/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers to pay new levy to help fund extra biosecurity measures to keep out pests and diseases
5/10/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers again rally against big rises in local government rates bills
5/9/2023 • 54 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rabobank tipping a 10 per cent reduction in the milk price as opening price deadline looms
5/8/2023 • 54 minutes, 56 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
It's been a month since Nikki Davey was crowned the 2023 rural woman of the year in Victoria and it's been a roller coaster ride for the young farmer.
5/5/2023 • 55 minutes
Victorian Country Hour
The Victorian Farmers Federation calls for the Victorian Government to step in and take over planning of the state's transmission network.
5/2/2023 • 55 minutes, 3 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rainfall, hop harvest, rice harvest and hay bale art
4/10/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Foot and mouth disease is now endemic in Indonesia.
4/6/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Victorian Country Hour
Grain growers are being forced to step back in time this season and burn their stubbles.
4/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Victorian Country Hour
Victoria's rural woman of the year is Nikki Davey
4/4/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Supermarket Coles buys Saputo factories which were built to produce cheap milk
4/3/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Questions have been raised over whether the Federal government's new environmental biodiversity program will be fit for purpose
3/30/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Victorian Country Hour
Mallee legend Squatter Coffey retires, but will still promote his local town of Beulah
3/29/2023 • 54 minutes, 28 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Industry and animal welfare specialists respond to footage of pigs in distress as they are being stunned with carbon dioxide gas
3/28/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Apple crops in the Goulburn Valley have been destroyed by hail
3/27/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Goulburn Valley apple growers have been smashed by hail for the third time this season
3/24/2023 • 0
Cattle trailblazer Helen Sykes celebrates 50 years of Hereford stud
Helen Sykes started life 89 years ago among the bush cattlemen in the Victorian High Country co-founding, with her father, a hereford stud when she was still a schoolgirl.
3/23/2023 • 5 minutes, 59 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
3/23/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Australian Wool Innovation says good progress has been made in developing a new form of biological defleecing
3/21/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
If you're a farmer, are you setting about earning carbon credits though the Federal Emissions Reduction Fund?
3/20/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
With power prices expected to spike by 30 per cent soon in Victoria, have you decided to get off the grid?
3/17/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
'Happy' the holstein calf's unique markings guarantee his role as a lawnmower for life
3/16/2023 • 0
'Happy' the Gippsland dairy calf puts smiles on faces
A dairy farm in West Gippsland has produced a calf with markings resembling a smiley face
3/15/2023 • 2 minutes, 53 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Australian dairy lovers have been warned that they soon could be paying more for their favourite cheese, yogurt, butter and cream.
3/15/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
A new term has been introduced into financial circles and its got farmers worried - it's "unrealised gains".
3/14/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
3/13/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Graincorp has but a bow on another massive grain harvest out of Victoria that set a number of new individual records.
3/10/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
The federal department of agriculture, fisheries and forestry has fallen hundreds of millions of dollars into the red.
3/9/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Coming to you live from Ensay on day 2 of the High Country Mountain Calf Sales.
3/8/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting live from the Mountain Calf Sale at Omeo
3/7/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Administrators for Scott's Refrigerated Logistics which entered voluntary administration last Monday have not been able to find a buyer for the business.
3/6/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
The battle is heating up between VFF and Australian Dairy Farmers
3/3/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers worried about superannuation changes
3/2/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
3/1/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
The VFF is worried about a recent Victorian government gazette of power line infrastructure
2/28/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Duck season gets the go ahead and water Ministers meet
2/27/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
The Victorian government will provide compensation to farmers who have large transmission lines built on their property.
2/24/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Come for a drive in an EV ute but is it up to the rigours of farming
2/23/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Flowerdale fires burn through farmland
2/22/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
V2 foods explains Wodonga closure and a case of BSE in Brazil
2/21/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
The wait for a call on the duck season and CSIRO changes it's plan for wine research
2/20/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers are shipping 35,000 tonnes of their own wheat to Oman
2/17/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Lino Saputo on Australian dairy, a major case of livestock theft and flooding on the Darling Anabranch
2/16/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Robots are now picking strawberries and Varroa mite could have been in Australia for some time.
2/15/2023 • 0
Bee pest varroa may have arrived in Australia 12 months earlier than detected
The bee pest varroa destructor mite could have been in Australia for up to a year before it was detected in New South Wales, Senate Estimates told.
2/15/2023 • 5 minutes, 1 second
Victorian Country Hour
The sheep flock has grown to nearly 80 million head and the MDBA's warning on the basin plan
2/14/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Saputo results and milk price step ups
2/13/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
There's calls in New South Wales for farmers to be allowed to fix unsealed roads
1/31/2023 • 0
Regional leaders in organics, environment and angus cattle awarded on Australia Day
This Australia day has seen awards for outstanding environmental work and food production: Organics leader Dalene Wray, Landcarer Chris Brooke and the late Angus cattle stalwart Jim Wilson.
1/26/2023 • 13 minutes, 25 seconds
Farmer Chris Bruty's mower created this stick figure at Mount Emu
A farmer at Mount Emu has shown one can never be too busy to have fun with a tractor, a mower and a drone.
1/24/2023 • 4 minutes, 11 seconds
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting live from Benjeroop discussing 2022 floods
1/20/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
1/20/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
1/18/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Today's show was hosted by NSW Country Hour Presenter Michael Condon and broadcasted across NSW and VIC
1/18/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
No end in sight for frozen chip shortage
1/17/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
A NSW wind farm fire on a rural property has raised questions
1/9/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Sam Kekovich is back for another MLA summer lamb ad ... so what does the industry make of it?
1/6/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
The Country Hour broadcasts live from day three of the weaner cattle sales at Barnawartha.
1/5/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Weaner cattle sales kick off in South West Victoria.
1/4/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers in central Victoria are cleaning up today after storms that decimated crops and damaged their houses.
1/3/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
We bring together a comparison of rainfall figures for 2022 from across Victoria.
1/2/2023 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Broadcasting live from the Dumbalk Country Campdraft
12/30/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Harvest drags on for grain growers across the state
12/29/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Agriculture Victoria to fall under new Energy, Environment and Climate Action Department
12/12/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Edward River falling at Moulamein, Murray River rising at Mildura
12/9/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
A locust plague is unlikely this summer despite reports of hatchings
12/8/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Record prices but fewer farmers in the dairy industry
12/7/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Farmers in regional areas have concerns over Bureau of Meteorology changes
12/6/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Changes to Bureau of Meteorology crosses to radio programs are criticised by the National Farmers Federation
12/5/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Big fine for labour hire operator, damage from floods continues to mount and farming Christmas trees
12/2/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation
12/1/2022 • 0
Victorian Country Hour
Home made helicopters, gliders, hot air balloons, what's the weirdest thing you've seen during harvest?
11/30/2022 • 0