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- Community expectations in animal welfare, the environment and sustainability have impacted the production of food and fibre. We look at social licence in agriculture and how it affects farmers and consumers. (Final for 2020)
- Farming bush foods; Mustering at Mundoo Island Station; The beef property where the Murray River meets the sea; A family of four daughters building a beef brand to export to China.
- Over the past 18 months, big, strange crops have appeared across Victoria, mountains of hats, cow-shaped grasses, even paddocks of boots. It's the result of cross-pollination between the art and rural communities, in a Federation project by Regional Arts Victoria called "Such Fertile Ground". Across the state, communities have taken time out of their busy schedules to help create defining images of their regions, and have a lot of fun in the process.
- Conservation farming is the name for an approach to cropping, that an increasing number of Australian farmers are switching to. Those that do change have to be brave, as it's a system that turns on its head, nearly every long held tradition associated with cropping, including doing away with one of the cropper's favourite tools - the disc plough. There are now enough farmers adopting conservation farming principals in central western New South Wales for an annual award to be handed out, and this years winners are attracting a lot of praise for their sustainable approach to cropping.
- Nearly every farmer in the country has a collection of unregistered, unwanted, out of date and potentially dangerous chemicals in a shed somewhere on their property. Until now, paying a specialist to collect and destroy the chemicals has been the only way farmers could legally rid themselves of this burden, and reduce the threat to the environmentiroment. The cost though is so high, most farmers have just stored what they no longer need. After decades of waiting for a solution farmers finally have another option, and the best thing about it is - it's free.
- Organisers have always hoped the Year of the Outback would be more than the sum of its parts. At last count there's been some 700 community events and festivals organised across the country. Many of them aimed at bridging the divide between urban and rural Australia and celebrating the distinctive, often isolated and challenging lifestyle that few in the bush would swap for anything.
- The fine balancing act between domestic politics and international trade has again come into sharp focus this week over sugar. On the one hand Canberra has been promoting the merits of its latest rescue package for canegrowers while our trade minister challenges the fairness of Europe doing much the same sort of thing for its farmers. There is certainly a strong view that if you can't beat them... join them. But long-term the industry might need to take a serious look at alternative markets for sugar cane, like fuel ethanol and bioplastics.
- Whether plunging, showering or hand jetting sheep for lice control, there's a growing awareness by Australian producers about the need for protection against harmful chemicals. That said though, the full extent of workplace exposure to the group of organophosphates known as diazanon is still unknown. More than 30 years after they became commonplace in the sheep and wool industry, the National Farmers Federation has pushed for a comprehensive trial of diazanon exposure, which could have major implications for future ectoparasite control.
- Live exports to the Middle East are likely to be down by more than 1 million sheep and lambs this year, and the outlook for 2005 is not much better. Australia's post-drought stock shortage, the rising value of the dollar, and the suspension of trade to Saudi Arabia have all combined for a forecast decline of 22 per cent this year. But the trade faces an even greater threat - the animal rights campaign against the trade has gathered momentum since last year's Cormo Express debacle. Prominent Australians have joined the protests and at least one American retailer has banned Australian wool products.
- It is an extraordinary tale of how a run-of-the-mill sale of wheat has ballooned into an ongoing saga involving two wars, international sanctions and the forgiveness of debt amounting to billions of dollars. Caught in the middle of all this are Australian graingrowers, the bulk of them from Western Australia, and it is from that state that the grains president of the Farmers Federation, Peter Wahlsten, spoke with Kerry Lonergan.
- Much has been made of nation's shortage of skilled labour. But many primary producers claim there's an even greater shortage of unskilled labour across all of rural Australia. They say many Australians are no longer willing to undertake the more menial, labour intensive jobs our forebears once performed. Most horticultural regions rely on itinerant labour in the form of foreign backpackers and in one region seasonal labour shortages have become so severe that it has devised a radical solution to bring guest labour from China. The Sunraysia Mallee Economic Development Board wants federal government approval for its scheme in time for the coming summer harvest. Its plan has the support of peak farmer bodies. But this is an emotive issue, dividing opinions on both sides of the political fence.
- The head of Australian Wool Innovation Ian Mclachlan says the deal reached between the Australian Wool Growers Association and the US-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) may damage the wool industry in the long term.
- Joanne Shoebridge talks with Gunnar Rundgren, president of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements. An organic farmer since 1977, Mr Rundgren will discuss issues surrounding Australian organic accreditations and standards, and if organic foods are better for you.
- The buffalo industry has been renowned for producing quality meat, but now buffalo milk is making its mark in the dairy industry. A dairy farmer in far north Queensland has teamed up with a family of Italian cheesemakers to produce award winning buffalo cheese. While the industry has been thriving overseas, it's still in its early stages in Australia.
- Japan's insatiable appetite for seafood and bluefin tuna in particular is coming at a cost to Australia. It's estimated that illegal fishing by the Japanese fleet has cost an incredible $10 billion just in bluefin stocks alone. Australian authorities are calling it a virtual act of piracy and the local industry is up in arms.
- 2016–202352mTV EpisodeErnie traverses the blue waters and tidal passages to Sunday Island, Aaron experiences the magic and culture of the Atherton Tablelands and Rae hears the history of Hobart.