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- 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.
- A bold plan for bioenergy from agricultural waste; How farming could help heal mental hurt; The race to salvage trees killed in summers bushfires; Mallacoota's community-led approach to bushfire recovery.
- Kerry Lonergan interviews Dr David Suzuki on his latest book. The plight of the Snowy River has been thrown into the public arena following last year's surprising Victorian election.
- For years the wool industry has been focussed on high fashion but now a young West Australian man has set his sights on selling wool products into the booming leisure and sportswear market. Stuart Adams, himself the son of wool grower, was upset by the fact that more and more young people are wearing artificial fibres. Ian Henschke caught up with Stuart Adams and followed his dream of selling wool to the world.
- The saleyard - for many it's just as much a social meeting place as a site where livestock is bought and sold. But the saleyard is about to undergo a transformation - and soon it'll have just as many barcode scanners as the local supermarket. Electronic identification is here to stay and your local saleyard may never be the same.
- 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.
- Our news summary begins this week with official confirmation of what most farmers already know - that this drought is threatening their continued existence in rural Australia.
- Kerry Lonergan spoke to olive grower and processor Mark Troy about issues facing the Australian olive industry, including the decision by Customs to drop their investigation into a request for countervailing tariffs on EU-subsidised olive oil.
- The beef industry's Funding Steering Committee is calling for the cattle levy by be lifted by $1.50. Through June and July producers will vote whether to accept the increase but in the meantime, Meat and Livestock Australia is mounting a strong campaign for a 'yes' vote. Heading up their case is committee chairman Don McDonald who told Landline he was confident producers would accept the increase. The Australian Beef Association�s Linda Hewitt outlines why the group is opposing the increase.
- The woman behind Blue Hills, Gwen Meredith, passed away last week at her home near Bowral in southern New South Wales.
- Dr Iain Wright of the International Livestock Research Institute, based in India, joins Anne Krugar to discuss recent talks in Canberra with Australian agricultural aid agencies on the impact of livestock in developing countries.