
Country Today - August 19th
Victoria’s opposition leader Jess Wilson has announced the coalition will abandon the VNI-West Transmission Line, should it win government in the State Election this November. You’ll hear from Jess Wilson. Th

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The Country Today podcast focuses on breaking rural news, including daily interviews with farming and argi-business leaders, analysts, inventors, suppliers, politicians and much more. Hosted by Libby Price, who has spent over 30 years covering agribusiness, Libby is joined by a team of experienced rural-based journalists to present the show each day.
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Victoria’s opposition leader Jess Wilson has announced the coalition will abandon the VNI-West Transmission Line, should it win government in the State Election this November. You’ll hear from Jess Wilson. Th

Wangaratta is preparing for a record-breaking yarding of nearly 6,000 head of cattle at its st ore sale on Thursday this week. Increasingly, dairy farmers are choosing to put beef bulls over dairy cows to meet grow

Wangaratta is preparing for a record-breaking yarding of nearly 6,000 head of cattle at its store sale on Thursday this week. Increasingly, dairy farmers are choosing to put beef bulls over dairy cows to meet growing dem

The Bureau of Meteorology's CEO has commissioned an independent review of the organisation. But will it be enough to restore farmers' trust after a year of growing skepticism over forecast accuracy? We’ll hea

Is it time farmers had just one lobby group representing them? Two state farming groups have left GPA to go to GrainGrowers ... and now, GrainGrowers has announced its members will vote on changing its constitution to cr

Today Victoria’s opposition leader Jess Wilson on her plans for the regions if the coalition wins the state election in just 15 weeks time. Australia’s largest rice processor SunRice cuts jobs. And the blame

The increasingly herbicide resistant ryegrass can adjust its growth and reproduction to survive under drought stress by producing even more seeds. Bee keepers across the eastern states are putting the final pieces in pla

It’s been a very wet weekend in Victoria with falls as high as 160 millimetres in the Alps, and good falls across most of the state, with minor to moderate flooding in the North East. We’ll do a bit if a whip

Crops are soaking up this weekend's rainfall, with totals of 10 to 40 mm across key agricultural areas. You’ll hear from the Youth Climate Champion for COP31, Sally Higgins. Her message to governments: mobilise you

Fuel prices have skyrocketed again. Today an energy analyst says, even if the war ended tomorrow, fuel prices, and in particular diesel, will remain high for the next few years. There are more signals that an El Nino is

After an eight-year investigation, Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog, IBAC, concluded extraordinary influence was wielded by United Firefighters Union secretary, Peter Marshall, over senior figures in the Andrews

The focus of the program today is the imposing threat of this H5 variant of bird flu. Put simply, it will kill all birds who are infected. But it does cross to mammals. In Europe and the US, its infecting dairy herds and

It’s increasingly looking like the highly virulent strain of bird flu is here to stay. Today you’ll hear from Victoria’s chief vet, Graeme Cooke. Global wheat prices are rallying due to Middle East tens

Australia’s fertilizer industry is in tatters due to the Federal Government only underwriting three of the big companies due to record urea prices due to the war in the Middle East. It’s meant 70 per cent of

The controversial Climate Active scheme which has allowed corporates to claim they were carbon neutral by purchasing carbon credits scrapped by the Federal Government. Country Today has been at the Australian Grains Indu

The inquiry into Victoria's 2026 summer fires has been tabled in Parliament. The Labor government concluded that “fire agencies and communities were overall well prepared.’’ But the Government's tried t

The first job of the new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll was to announce there will be a Royal Commission into corruption and criminality in Victoria’s construction sector. We will rake over the coals of the premiers

As you may have heard, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has resigned, just four months out from the State election. So is this good or bad news for the State Opposition. You'll hear from Nationals Leader Danny O'Brien. We

New South Wales farmers have asked for another delay of a further two years in the mandating of electronic ear tags in sheep. Australia has triggered its 2026 quota for beef exports into South Korea. Victorian Farmers Fe

To the Murray Darling Basin Plan, and regional councils claim Federal funding that was meant to be spent on communities hit by water buybacks, is instead going to the Victorian Government and is being wasted on administr
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