On Country Today, we cross to Washington where a dairy worker has just died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu. It is of course the strain that has been killing mainly wild migratory birds in Australia since it was detected in June this year. So what can we learn from the US experience?

Australian researchers have found that one of the worst fungal diseases of barley, fungicide resistant net blotch, can be carried on barley seeds and transferred to the seedlings.

Could drones geared with artificial intelligence help with wild dog control? Ag Victoria has commissioned the company Drone Hand to run a Dingo Drone Pilot Project in northwest Victoria, where there have been large losses from dog attacks on sheep and lambs.

Charles Sturt University is trialling transparent solar panels in feedlots to replace diesel generators. The panels may also be useful in vineyards and are already being used in parts of Europe.