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- Home delivery saving our cheesemakers; Launching the latest in bush tucker; A new health food supplement made from apples boosts hope for bushfire-hit orchardists; Plus protecting Tasmania's waterways from livestock.
- This year's Royal Easter Show featured a careers expo to promote agriculture as a career option. In recent years the Australian egg market has been dominated by three major players supplying the country's big retailers.
- Since the Murray Darling cap on water was introduced, a growing nightmare for irrigators is how they manage in an environment where water is restricted and becoming much more expensive. Queensland is the last state in the Basin to fall in line with the cap, and to do it, the State Government has introduced Water Allocation Management Plans, or "WAMP" in the river systems.
- Australian quarantine officials have in the past refused apple export requests from New Zealand, claiming their fruit presents too great a disease risk. Now they appear close to a change of heart which could see New Zealand apples allowed into the country.
- A Goondiwindi cotton grower has joined the rag trade, turning home-grown, cotton into home-sewn clothes. His value-adding vision is to have all cotton production from farm to garment done in the local area.
- Joanne Shoebridge speaks with deputy prime minister John Anderson about the negotiations over a rescue package for the sugar industry.
- As Australia's wine industry has grown so too have the plethora of shows and awards for the nation's top wine-makers. But until now, the people who grow the grapes that make the wine haven't been recognised for their important part in the process. At Mudgee in the central ranges of New South Wales, a Viticulturist of the Year Award is providing long overdue recognition for wine grape producers.
- Joanne Shoebridge spoke with Mal Peters of the NSW Farmers Association about the closure and relocation of NSW Agriculture research stations
- Kerry Lonergan spoke with Meat and Livestock Australia chairman David Crombie about the current state of the industry and what the future might hold for beef producers.
- Australia's wool industry has been on a downward spiral for more than a decade. In western Queensland, wool production has been shrinking and sheep stations are being replaced with cattle farms.
- Chris Tarrant rides 2000 miles north on "The Ghan" line from Adelaide (capital of the state of South Australia), across the "red desert" centre of the Australian outback, finishing at Darwin (capital of the Northern Territory).
- 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.
- In central Australia traditional tracking skills and modern science are working together to save a rare species of rock wallaby. It's thought there are just a few dozen "black-flanked" rock wallabies left in the wild. While they are still considered something of an Indigenous delicacy, local Aboriginal women are now committed to not only taking them off the menu but off the endangered list as well.
- 2007– 29mTV Episode