Country Breakfast: Recent Episodes
ABC Radio
ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.
The benefits of farming undercover, and a call for cooler heads when it comes to the risks posed by foot and mouth disease.
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.