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Country Today
Playlist by Country TodayThe 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 …Follow the podcast:
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Country Today - March 20th
What difficult choices are grain growers having to make as they start sowing winter crops with low, or no supplies of fuel and fertilizers. With urea stocks so low, everyone is asking why don’t we produce our own. You’ll hear from one industry analyst who says, even if we had our own urea manufact…
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Country Today - March 19th
With farmers gearing up for the new sowing season, there’s a crisis not of their making. It is of course, the oil crisis. Should the Federal Government step in and prioritise and ration fuel? You’ll also hear from the Genetics Australia conference held this week in Geelong. What's happening with g…
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Country Today - March 18th
You’ll hear from the new federal deputy leader of The Nationals. Darren Chester has also been given the portfolio of Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. As many farmers are discovering, it's nigh on impossible to find urea fertilizer. Travis Hair of Crop Opti services in Hors…
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Country Today - March 17th
You’ll get an update on the impact the global shipping and fuel crisis due to the war in the Middle East, and what it’s doing to our red meat exports. The sustainable Food and farming festival, ‘GROUNDED 2026’, is being held in Victoria next month, you’ll hear from Matthew Evans, Grounded Festival…
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Country Today - March 16th
The ongoing fuel crisis, driven by conflict in Middle East, highlights a vulnerability strategic policy analyst and farmer Andrew Henderson has warned us about for years. You’ll also hear form VFF Grains President Ryan Milgate on the scramble for fuel and fertiliser coming into the crop sowing sea…
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Country Today - March 13th
Today NAB Chief economist Sally Auld with her perspective on the fuel shortage, inflation and if the reserve bank will increase interest rates next week. Australia’s beef exports to China could reach the import quota by the middle of the year. The weekly wool report and the EMI rose again. The B…
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Country Today - March 12th
Just when the Victorian Farmers Federation was starting to really kick some goals after it was haemorrhaging membership. President Brett Hosking announces he's hanging up his hat. Victorian dairy farmers pleading with the state government plans to not merge commodity focused food safety bodies and…
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Country Today - March 11th
In his own words. Nationals leader David Littleproud gave up the leadership because, he’s buggered. He’s been replaced by conservative Queensland Senator Matt Canavan. The war in the Middle East has created a global shipping crisis not seen since the covid pandemic. The National Farmers Federati…
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Country Today - March 10th
The war in the Middle East may only be a week or so old, but the economic reverberations are being felt across the world. You'll hear from Independent Australian economist Saul Eslake. You’ll also hear from Australia’s chief vet with an update on Lumpy Skin Disease which is now just a hop, skip an…
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Country Today - March 6th
As we reported on Country Today yesterday, the Victorian Government went ahead and pushed through legislation that allows energy companies to compulsorily acquire land for transmission lines before an environment assessment has been done. So will the energy companies start buying up land before the…
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