Landline

Picking up the pieces after catastrophic bushfires on Kangaroo Island, in New South Wales and Victoria. Plus culling of thirsty camels to protect water supplies in the Southern Rangelands of WA.

The struggle of overcoming infertility in the bush. The singing and dancing farmer teaching kids about life on the land. Plus the impact of coronavirus on Australia's multi-million-dollar lobster export industry.

Landline goes to Bass Strait and Australia's largest remaining scallop fishery. Also meet the scientist whose work in sheep helped in the births of 10 million IVF babies. Plus the old alcohol that's new again - mead.

What the Australia-Indonesia partnership means for agricultural exports; Tasmania on the verge of eliminating European Carp; Small town farmers looking for love; The burger king backing plant-based meat substitutes. Weekly Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRCV3VMOSdI

Farming bush foods; Mustering at Mundoo Island Station; The beef property where the Murray River meets the sea; A family of four daughters building a beef brand to export to China. BOM Climate Outlook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F62Ku0i5n7o

Agricultural innovators working smarter not harder; an alternative to plastic drinking straws; eco-friendly surfboards from plantation timber; Canowindra's young champion putting community first. Weekly Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTiym9siU0

The little drought charity with a big heart; Traprock's fine wool producers struggle with drought; Genetically modifying dairy cattle; A young farmer from Jakarta embraces life on King Island. Weekly Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSJg2YBbfo

The impact of bushfire-smoke tainted grapes on the wine industry; A high-end goat cheese dairy committed to sustainability; Farming camels for meat export; Inside the secret world of medicinal cannabis. Weekly Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E77TA7lRWhM

What coronavirus means for agriculture; Hard times for rice growers; Remembering a unique travelling merchant and his wagon; The artist capturing the country coming back to life from bushfires.

A caterpillar with a frightening reputation invades Australian shores. Precious honey bees in short supply for agriculture. Beneficial bugs keeping pest insects at bay. Plus the effect of COVID-19 on farming. Weekly Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiYAqAFFdOc

Couples struggling to overcome infertility in the bush, the man who helped revolutionise IVF, the boom in distilleries and no-alcohol drinks and the singing, dancing farmer celebrating life on the land.

COVID-19 changing the way primary producers and agricultural businesses operate; Fears for hundreds of wineries; Pork producers on alert for African Swine Fever. Weekly weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtobrik7hGM

Landline's tribute to our Anzacs including how diggers smuggled a French orphan boy into Melbourne after WWI, the soldier settlement schemes, plus a family linked to the charge of the Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba.

Safeguarding the food supply chain during COVID-19; Changes at fruit and vegetable markets; Out to sea for banana prawn season; RFDS readies for coronavirus; plus a silver-lining for the flower industry. Climate and Water Outlook for May to July 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOi5J3_nL50

Truckies keeping food supplies moving; Cow colostrum a new trend in health foods; Big hearted volunteers feeding hungry horses; The greenhouse-grown vanilla pilot; plus Ginger growing bio-security champions. Weekly Weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPEEGt7ul-A

The nationwide grain industry outlook; A regional business making cheap ventilators; Farmers demand the right to repair their tractors; The high-tech nursery facing big challenges.

Drought-stricken grain growers taking their last chance on a crop; Demand soars for organic fruit and vegetables: Keeping a country newspaper alive; Plus the struggle to save unwanted working dogs.

Home delivery saving our cheesemakers; Launching the latest in bush tucker; A new health food supplement made from apples boosts hope for bushfire-hit orchardists; Plus protecting Tasmania's waterways from livestock.

A major court victory for the northern cattle industry; Rebuilding after summer's bushfires; Has COVID-19 revealed a lack of self-reliance for farm manufacturing and supplies; Plus the remote life of an outback cop.

Calls for Australians to eat more home-grown barramundi; Farming pearls in cooler waters; A world first climate atlas charting the weather for our wine regions; Plus embracing the challenges of a tree-change.

An uncertain future for the last Georges River oyster farmer; Growing exotic mushrooms in an inner-city backyard; Planting native grasses to help deal with drought and bushfire; Plus protecting bees from disease.

Australian scientists discover how to grow coloured cotton; Reviving Australia's wool processing industry; Changing the way milk processors and dairy farmers do business; Plus the latest monthly Climate Outlook.

Lessons learned from drought; Improving cotton's green credentials; The family-owned business farming salt; An award-winning program changing the conversation about mental health for rural men.

A bold plan for bioenergy from agricultural waste; How farming could help heal mental hurt; The race to salvage trees killed in summers bushfires; Mallacoota's community-led approach to bushfire recovery.

Digging deep in search of underground water; A five-year project to fix the world's longest fence; Aged care options closer to home for regional Australians; The orange police protecting a precious crop.

The mysterious dieback of grazing pasture; A young WA family embrace farming life; Paying farmers for supporting biodiversity; Purple beehives defending against varroa mite; Promising cattle tick vaccine research.

How the deadly rabbit virus myxomatosis almost failed; Bundaberg's tobacco-growing history; A Longreach local legend living independently at 95; A regional artist creates spectacular bronze sculptures.

Crunch time for the Narrabri coal seam gas project; The link between the myxo and calici viruses in rabbit control; How a beautiful bouquet could be a biosecurity risk; The many words used to describe wagyu beef.

The wall of one of the country's newest dams being lowered for safety; A young farmer succeeding on the land after the sudden loss of his father; Making beer from jujubes; On the road with a travelling vet.

One man's project to catalogue all the world's edible plants is helping to fight child starvation; A growing number of women taking up the trade of butchering; The 70-year-old shearer still a gun on the boards.

Woolgrowers scramble to assemble shearing teams due to border closures; Home-made soft drinks bubbling in popularity; Australia's underappreciated native mushrooms; How Israeli farmers are coping with COVID.

Canola growers warned to phase out pest-control chemicals; Bold plans for a boutique abattoir in Central Queensland; Labour shortage creates picking problems for horticulture; The unique one-person mill.

A pollution controversy over dust from Port Hedland's booming iron ore port; Salmon profits halved by the pandemic; The grain grower diversifying into beer; Dedicated volunteers restoring Tasmanian train history.

Do Australia's catastrophic bushfires signal a new global fire age?; This summer's fire outlook; Victorian poultry farmers battle bird flu outbreak; Farmers on opposite sides of the wind energy debate.

A shortage of truckies and drivers creates a harvest crisis in WA; The community funded market hub connecting customers with farmers; Digger the farm dog's very busy day; End of an era for a Queensland milko.

Strawberry ice-creams and herb bouquets save two farms from adversity; The town that took in and supported out-of-work backpackers during COVID; The cafe owner using aquaponics to grow his own salads.

Farming mussels in Jervis Bay's new aquaculture precinct; The battle to eradicate fire ants; Solutions to drought on the Nullarbor Plain; Creating new habitat for displaced koalas and other native animals.

Getting a foothold in the NT's cattle industry; The bright future for jumps horses after racing; A sustainable seafood enterprise in Arnhem Land; 60 years of crop saving information for temperate fruit growers.

Workers from Vanuatu pick the Northern Territory's mangoes; The golden harvest of a new wheat variety; An uncertain future for sugar mill; Botany Bay's Indigenous rangers; A country music star turns gold miner.

How barley growers have fared after huge tariff imposed by China; A whole apple in a bottle; The country's biggest free-range meat-chicken farm embracing solar; Sharing the mysteries of the deep online.

The challenges of farming beside the Great Barrier Reef; Australia's grain-belt rebounding from drought; Concern over a deep space project on farming land; Finding fun in the bush when COVID cancels events.

Community expectations in animal welfare, the environment and sustainability have impacted the production of food and fibre. We look at social licence in agriculture and how it affects farmers and consumers. (Final for 2020)