ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

Why removing best before dates on certain types of fresh produce could help halve food waste and researchers highlight Australia's poor knowledge of our local bee species.

This week a leading CEO on managing a billion dollar diversified agribusiness and a renowned grain breeders call for more innovation.

This week we visit the front line of the fight against African Swim Fever in Timor Leste.

A daring escape from the jaws of a 3.2 saltwater crocodile and a look at what's behind the continuing expansion of plant-based alternative dairy products

This week a tale of two oils; the sad fate of Australia's safflower crop, and the roaring success of Australia's homegrown olive oil industry.

On the show this week, why the market for sheepskins has tanked, and what the French can teach Australian winemakers about protecting the unique aspects of their wine regions.

This week we visit to Otways, where feral deer and pigs are causing huge amounts of environmental and economic damage.

This week we discuss soil carbon projects, and why some of our best soil and agricultural scientists have serious concerns about how they're being run in Australia.

This week we deep dive on how the sheep market works, and prices are tanking at saleyards across the country.

This week we look at the big change in Australia's war against the varroa mite, and meet a forensic scientist turning his attention to seafood provinance.

Why farm commodity exports to China have surged to record highs, and how a Bondi grommet made it to the professional rodeo scene in the USA.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

This week we look at seaweed grapes as well as the multi-billion dollar global fertiliser industry.

This week we examine the future of Chinese demand for Australian red meat, and how AI could help feed a growing population 

This week we meet an Aussie ag consultant helping Afghanistan's farmers transition out of poppy crops.

This week we discuss the year that was in the southern Murray-Darling Basin water markets.

This week we discuss how war, extreme weather and El Nino are creating a humanitarian disaster as million more people around the world are driven to hunger.

This week we look at the Black Sea grain corridor, as it approaches one year in operation.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

This week we look at the Black Sea grain corridor, as it approaches one year in operation.

Exporting red meat to the UK and selling lab-cultured meat to Aussies.

The slow phase out of mulesing and booming demand for Aussies mung beans.

This week Country Breakfast visits the Pilbara, to see how people there are recovering from Cyclone Ilsa.

This week we get a rare view of the live sheep trade, travelling on board a full vessel from Fremantle to Kuwait.

Researchers call for greater protection of dingo populations, and a farmer's bid to ride Brussels sprout to the bank.

This week, stories from the World Aquaculture Conference in Darwin & a new podcast about how communities along the Colorado River are learning to live with less.

The latest on Ukrainian grain exports, a new report's alarming slavery findings and another chapter in the long-running trans-Tasman manuka war.

We look at what's driving the booming farmland property market and why Saudi Arabian live sheep export market could reopen soon.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

This week we travel across the Indian Ocean to talk all things farming in South Africa.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

This week we look at the growing world of impact investing, and check in on the grain harvest around the country.

The Basin Plan's 10 year birthday, and renewed interest in agribusiness co-ops. 

The path forward for water market reform, and the hope and heartbreak of giving birth in remote Australia.

This week we ask what it means to have water security.

Harvest in Ukraine, and plans to buyback water in the Murray-Darling Basin.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

This week we join a camp oven cooking competition, tee off along the Nullabour and take an in-depth look at the $14 billion Inland Rail project.

ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

In-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe

The benefits of farming undercover, and a call for cooler heads when it comes to the risks posed by foot and mouth disease.

A look at a megadrought in the United States.

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt discusses new measures to prevent a foot and mouth outbreak in Australia.

Rural News with Sarina Locke, a trip around A Big Country and why farmland in Australia is so expensive.

This week Country Breakfast looks at a new partnership formed to offer farmers greater oversight and protection of their valuable data. Meet a farmer who's been collecting Furphy water carts for 50 years. And work through the winners and losers from the interim free trade deal with India.

This week what La Nina means for Australia; pollinating with toothpicks; and growing popcorn on the cob.

This week we try a lamb-based sausage roll; meet a FIFO dance teacher and find out what's in the federal budget for rural Australia.

Feral buffalo destroying native habitat, forecast for a wetter spring and summer and why the sport of sword play is gaining popularity.

Checking in with Australia's tourism industry: operators say they're on life support with no international tourists and staff looking for more secure work.

This week why COVID has been great for artisan cheese; there's money in mud and it's pushing up bull prices and we head to Australia's first organic camel milk dairy.

This week we find out how northern beef breeds are starting to find a culinary market; some positive stories of environmental regeneration; and the struggle to find workers for this year's harvest.

This week farmers aggrieved over border restrictions including suggestions they fly sheep and hay interstate; we meet a man taking on an epic adventure and discover the extraordinary uses for algae.

Factories and abattoirs around the world have faced clusters of COVID-19 and we look at why. Plus, the fruit shop owner enjoying his plan B, and the women who get together to surf all year round.

Meatworkers vulnerable to coronavirus as outbreaks grow in Melbourne, working dogs selling strongly to livestock farmers, how seaweed is cutting emissions in cows and a fish and chip shop owner sourcing produce from an organic aquaponics farm.

This week: Hurricane' the Border Collie in training to claim the title of Australia's top farm dog, how one town is solving a rural aged care dilemma, and we look at border restrictions leaving regional hospital short-staffed for surgery, specialists and oncology.