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Once-in-a-lifetime flooding in SA's 'Agricultural Town of the Year'; Western Australia's record summer; Australian science and ingenuity transforms the global leather industry; Tree farmers growing an international business.
Harvesting big data from farmers; A resurgence in small family dairies; Growing seaweed to capture carbon; plus Rural retreats bringing tourists to country towns.
Demand for carbon offsets from agriculture creates new opportunities for farmers; Growing hyper-yielding crops; Minding the murals in country towns; and Australia's enduring love affair with the ute.
Scheduled program cancelled due to flooding in Queensland.
Repeat broadcast of Series 2021 | Episode 6 30th Anniversary Special
A growing taste for goat meat; An agricultural program in jail giving prisoners a second chance; The telecommunications divide between cities and the bush; Plus a breeding program for Macquarie Perch.
Turbo charging crops and soil carbon with human waste; The fresh faces of the Northern Territory cattle industry; plus designing tree hollows for wildlife to replace those lost to fires and land clearing.
A sardine fisher in Port Phillip Bay pulls in his nets for the last time; The changing face of Australian agriculture; plus discovering the secrets of black garlic.
The full-circle distillery increasing milk production; What it takes to be a social media ag influencer; Plus discovering the inventor of modern refrigeration in our series on the 'Things That Made Australia'.
The big shake-up to how fruit and vegetable pickers are paid; Restoring reefs in Port Phillip; The ICU nurses learning to grow apples; plus testing times for the Australia-Indonesia live cattle partnership.
Celebrating stories of resilience from over the years: The English backpacker at home on a remote cattle station, Turning dust to diamonds, The women running vast outback stations, plus a retired bushman and his solo sawmill.
People power restoring seagrass meadows off South Australia; 80 years since Australia's "Land Girls" answered the call; A Mallee ghost town that once offered a new life to soldier settlers; A visit to the Royal Easter Show.
Meet a woman who breeds award winning sheep, shears them, trades grain and drives a road train; A small town with home-grown care for the elderly; and join the conversation at the Women of The World Festival in Longreach.
The divisive debate over kangaroo harvesting; Australia's Rural Ambassadors for 2021 and 2022; Capturing the beauty of the Monaro region on canvas; plus the solo yachtsman retuning each year to harvest grain in WA.
High profile kitchen power helping a city farm recover from floods; Shearing the rams the old- fashioned way; The Casella family's mega winery; An exciting discovery for the country museum housing the Madame Weigel exhibit.
How mechanical shearing transformed Australia's wool industry, WA farmers gearing up to meet the popularity of oat milk, and building agricultural skills at a former gold mine.
How improving soil health on macadamia farms has captured carbon; The beef producer helping to save two of Australia's rarest animals; Myanmar refugees finding a way to farm; plus Australia's first abattoir choir.
A new gold rush in Victoria's high country; Primary production in Western Australia's remote Abrolhos Islands; and Queensland's Heron Island, once home to a turtle soup factory, now a haven for wildlife.
Rising pet ownership putting pressure on the food supply chain; Fighting fruit flies from the cloud; School students helping to save an endangered native fish; plus developing alternatives to pesticides for cotton.
Technological innovations benefitting agriculture and the environment. Planting trees from the sky; Fighting unlawful water use; Using native fungi to combat weeds; Colourful light boosting technology helping to grow crops
A looming potato shortage as growers threaten to leave the industry; Crunching the numbers on pricey produce; Primary industries in NSW's Northern Rivers devastated by floods; plus WA's live sheep industry on notice.
Fine-dining regional restaurants offer new opportunities for local producers; One of the nation's smallest and most unique farms; Mixing with the top dogs at the Casterton Kelpie show; 200 years of agricultural education.
How the merino sheep breed kick-started Australia's wool industry; Using mules to move livestock in feedlots; Port Stephens oyster growers face devastating QX disease; plus the world's tiniest tomatoes.
A not-for-profit group offering community and support to connect young people to farming; The quest to find new and better ways to harvest wool; New South Wales' most sustainable fishery, the Eastern Rock Lobster.
Finding a future for a coal mining town when the power plants close; Using overlooked fish species to aid sustainability; plus pollination plans as beekeepers deal with the deadly bee parasite Varroa mite.
What rising dairy prices mean for farmers amidst industry boom; A shortage of truck drivers slowing supply chains across the country; plus one man's determination to breed a better lamb.
High rise buildings made from timber; a livestock gene bank to preserve rare breeds; plus the distinctive designs of fruit and vegetable cartons.
New ways to reduce food waste; the farm growing Christmas magic all year round; and donkeys taking on the role of livestock guardians.
Fire danger ratings standardised across Australia; keeping the last commercial farm on a city's outskirts safe from urban sprawl; and how the gold rushes helped build the nation in our series 'Things That Made Australia'.
Worker shortages impacting the mango season; the commercial trial using seaweed to reduce cattle methane; and becoming an electric-vehicle minerals superpower.
The forgotten disease that could devastate the cattle industry; tiny drones doing the work of bees; decades of tree planting transform a sheep property; and the ghost town of Annuello comes back to life.
Meet the 2022 Farmer of the Year; the lucrative business of sexing livestock semen; and the high school growing a new crop of farmers.
Promoting excellence in commercial fishing; international challenges to finger lime farming; armchair travelling for farmers in the Faroe Islands near Iceland; and landscape painter Joe Furlonger.
FMD concerns over people entering pastoral properties in WA; a progress report on Inland Rail; and meet Australia's latest Landcare winner.
Agricultural waste being turned into a carbon rich soil improver; Controversial plans to stop over-fishing in WA fishery; and is the long awaited Inland Rail on the right track?
Modern pioneers raising buffalo for meat and milk; High tech indoor vertical farming powered by the wind; Carving up farmland to end a traffic snarl; plus researching the endangered Southern Right Whale.
How prawn farmers devastated by white spot disease became award-winning fish producers; the dairy producers going it alone; plus Clydesdale champions keeping a tradition alive.
Concerns over long-term bio-security funding; The big gamble of building a private abattoir; Carbon credits from planting koala habitat; and barbecuing beef for off-farm income.
How farmers in parts of New South Wales and Victoria are coping with relentless rain; The biggest glasshouse in Australia with even bigger plans for the future; plus the tiny school with its own grain business.
Veterinarians under pressure in an industry struggling to retain practitioners in rural and regional areas; A robot that could revolutionise the packing shed; plus the 89-year-old keeping community halls alive through music.
A growing market for Australian wine in India; Flooding and prolonged wet weather creates a live Christmas tree shortage; and boot-scooting breathing life back into the dance halls of Western Australia.
Filling the gap in the fertiliser market by reworking disused phospate mines; the secrets of some of Australia's leading horsemen and women; plus earning money from carbon captured in soil.
The virtual mother's group helping country mums; Farming off-grid; An online community sharing stories of disability in agriculture; and the bush market celebrating artisans and makers from across Australia.
