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AWB, GrainCorp and the grain bin of history
It was an institution for Australia’s wheat farmers – the single desk marketing system that took their wheat around the world, guaranteed them a buyer each harvest and delivered a tidy profit under the auspices of the Australian Wheat Board.
Is foreign investment a problem?
How much new foreign investment is actually occurring in Australia, and should agriculture and food industries be concerned?
Young riders in International Mounted Games
Five of our top young riders head to Britain in August to compete at the International Mounted Games. Australia won last year at Calgary, Canada. Can they make it two in a row?
Indigenous community learning through its love of football
Many city-dwellers would be shocked if it took seven years for a community sporting ground to be built. However, for the Indigenous residents of Areyonga, 200 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, the development of their local football oval represents a coming of age.
Rise and fall of the 'Cattle King'
Bill Tapp was known as the 'Cattle King' as he went about developing several Northern Territory cattle stations, but in the early 1990s his empire came crashing down.
Setting free the pigs
Intensive piggeries are under pressure to change their practices, like removing sow stalls and freeing the pigs into group pens. It could cost tens of millions of dollars and we may pay more for domestic pork. Sarina Locke investigates.
What makes pigs happy? Looking at sow stalls.
Do sow stalls have a future in Australian piggeries?
Farmers pitch to city consumers to buy local
Australian farmers are launching a three-year marketing campaign to entice city consumers to locally grown food in New South Wales. The slogan is Families Needing Farmers.
Construction starts on huge Australian mine
Construction of Australia's largest underground mine has started near Orange in central-west NSW.
The Ord's largest sandalwood harvest begins
Elders forestry are harvesting 125 hectares of plantation Indian sandalwood with a projected yield of 300 tonnes of saleable timber. The Ord Valley is home to the world's largest plantation of Indian sandalwood, but its value on the world market has largely been untested.
All kinds of dairy
Step inside the Hastings Co-op dairy factory in Wauchope and it is a hive of activity with workers busy making a whole range of dairy products from cheeses and yoghurts to bottled milk.
2010 61st Mareeba Rodeo
The Mareeba Rodeo is one of the country's most iconic. It's been held every July since 1949 and thousands travel to the town west of Cairns in far north Queensland to experience it.
Property rights dominates farmers conference
Farmers from around NSW are demanding the State Government enact legislation to protect property rights in rural Australia.
Tasmanian vineyards expanding
Tasmanian vineyards are looking to plant more vines, despite low grape prices which have plagued wine producers from mainland Australia.
Climate change in regional art
Leading regional artists show the impact of climate change on Australia. The landscape works depict resilience.
Regional population plan not a new idea
Labor's plan to encourage people to move to regional areas, is not a new one.
Chopper crash survivor tells his tale
Chopper pilot Ben Williams is lucky to be alive after his lunch leftovers caused his chopper to crash land.
Cotter River gets transfusion
Ecologists will test the success of a water transfusion from the Murrumbidgee River into the Cotter River in the ACT as the Cotter Dam is expanded.
Retired women voters want more federal health spending
More rural health spending is the big election issue for retired regional women over 55 on the south coast of NSW. Hear the views of many coastal women voters at Merimbula in the marginal seat of Eden-Monaro.
Heading South: The Rural Report heads to the lower lakes
Mildura reporter Nikolai Beilharz is taking part in a study tour of the Lower Lakes of the Murray. He's with a group of farmers from in and around north-west Victoria and southern New South Wales, who are trying to find out first hand what it's like to be on live life at the bottom of the Murray Darling Basin.