Country Today
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 - August 5th
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 there’s a lot to learn. You’ll hear from a former CFA volunteer of some 24 ye…
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Country Today - August 4th
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 tensions and Black Sea shipping delays, yet domestic prices have barely moved. Slaughter cattle pri…
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Country Today - August 3rd
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 industry has to buy product at record high prices, but sell at the subsidised price, ta…
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Country Today - July 31st
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 Industry Conference in Melbourne this week and one of the major topics has been th…
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Country Today - July 30th
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 to conceal some of it, so what are they trying to hide, and what did the coalition have to say? …
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Country Today - July 29th
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 premiership of Jacinta Allen. You’ll hear how farmers are bitter about her government with V…
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Country Today - July 28th
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’ll also talk about the allegations of food fraud, labelling of products as Au…
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Country Today - July 27th
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 Federation has warned the state government it faces a fierce fight if it scraps…
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Country Today - July 24th
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 administration and bureaucracy. And Donald Trump has done it again announcing tariffs …
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Country Today - July 23rd
In worrying news for dairy farmers, the countries largest processor Lactalis has announced it’s closing its Gippsland dairy factory at Longwarry. Is there going to be further rationalisation as milk supply continues to fall. With the war with Iran dragging on and military tensions rising, so too a…
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