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- A knights journey for redemption after harming his brother in a fit of jealousy.
- Agricultural innovators working smarter not harder; an alternative to plastic drinking straws; eco-friendly surfboards from plantation timber; Canowindra's young champion putting community first.
- A caterpillar with a frightening reputation invades Australian shores. Precious honey bees in short supply for agriculture. Beneficial bugs keeping pest insects at bay. Plus the effect of COVID-19 on farming.
- 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.
- The Victorian city of Shepparton breathed a sigh of relief when a deal was struck to save SPC Ardmona from closure. But there are still many challenges ahead for the food processing plant and Victorian fruit growers.
- Farmers in Victoria's wool producing Western Districts believe they may have found a plant to beat a tough salinity problem: a South American legume called Melilotus Alba.
- One of the greatest problems any farmer faces is the unpredictable nature of our weather. A South Australian market gardener appears to have found a solution with high-tech, double-skinned plastic greenhouses. Not only are they temperature-controlled and built to survive hailstorms, they're proving a boon to the growth of the farmer's cucumbers.
- Between a third and a quarter of dairy farmers are not expected to survive in a deregulated environment but advocates of the change are pushing the benefits and promising Australia's largest ever rural compensation package.
- Left unchecked, the discharge of effluent could become a dampener on the growth of Australia's booming aquaculture industry. As the industry grows, so too does the amount of waste released. Prawn farmers already find the discharges an impediment to their expansion.
- A heavy reliance on lotfeeding has helped raise United States beef production, quality and consistency, with the flow-on effect of boosting returns for producers. America now has 13 million cattle in feedlots, easily outstripping Australia's 1 million head despite a 20 per increase in local lotfeeding in the past year.
- The American state of Nebraska has developed a strategy to revitalise small rural towns. The lessons learnt in Nebraska are now being applied across the US and here in Australia.
- In the wine industry's big end of town all the talk of late has been of billion dollar takeovers, global powerplays and corporate darwinism. Down in the smaller vineyards a more subtle evolution is taking place. It's the move to experiment with alternative tastes to the entrenched French varieties with most interest centred on Italian varieties.
- It used to be that a pup from the neighbor's litter did the trick, but with fewer paid employees on the farm the working dog's role has become more important than ever. Highly skilled dogs are in demand, and last weekend some of the best in the country were put to the test, competing in the New South Wales state yard dog championships in the small town of Dalgety on the Eden-Monaro plains.
- To the sometimes prickly issue of housing encroaching on farm country. We've all heard about diminishing country towns but what about the reverse situations? - when the town gets bigger and the only land available for expansion is used for farming? When the urban sprawl meets farming country, should primary producers be forced to accommodate the newcomers by changing the way they farm? Or should those who choose to live in certain areas, have to put up what was there first? It can be a very smelly question. Opinions vary on what, if any, compromises should be made.
- Landline reports on the cash crop that's clean and green and at the cutting edge of technology. Wind turbines are springing up on farms all over the country. In fact they are proving so popular that renewable energy analysts believe Australia could be producing at least 10 per cent of its power from the wind within a decade. Apart from the significant environmental spin-offs, the projects could generate substantial investment and jobs across rural and regional Australia.
- For many farmers their property is their kingdom, a piece of land that they control and nurture without interference. But a group of graziers in the New South Wales northern tablelands have chosen to relinquish this concept and instead combine their land into a single farm, sharing stock, resources, labour and most significantly, the decision-making process. This new approach to farming is based on a practice which began in medieval Europe one thousand years and these commoners believe it is not only good for their bottom line but also an innovative way to halt the environmental decline.
- Five years ago, George King's neighbours scoffed at the idea he could turnaround the fortunes of his family's farm without spending a fortune in the process. By any objective measurement the place was falling to bits. The paddocks were clapped out, the stock was in-bred and the dams were silting up. He believed the problem was not the farm as such, but the way it was being managed, lots of decisions with no clear goal in mind. After a decade in the red, the place is in the black and we have just been back to see how George King turned it around.
- Early next week, a herd of dairy cattle will arrive in Dili to bolster supplies of fresh milk in East Timor. They have been donated by Australian farmers in a goodwill gesture to neighbours going through tough times. Most of the massive international aid effort in East Timor over the past couple of years has focussed on restoring peace to this poverty-stricken nation. But now with independence just weeks away, a lot more emphasis is being placed on rebuilding agriculture and the peoples' capacity to feed themselves into the future.
- 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.
- The drought is claimed to be a factor in the planned merger of Grainco and Graincorp. Industry analysts say a merger was always likely but the prolonged dry has brought the issue forward.