Country Breakfast

This week how climate is shifting what and where we grow our food; and farmers in Tasmania argue burning off could have prevented the extent of the devastating summer fires.

Community food swap sharing the spoils at harvest time; epic restoration project brings old truck back to life; country dance still drawing crowds nearly a century after it first began; retired racehorses finding new home and role, giving blood for medical research.

Farmers are offloading female cattle at record rates in the worsening drought but one heifer sold for a record $280,000 this week. Monsanto in the US is ordered to pay $2 billion to a couple allegedly contracting cancer from Round-up.

This week an alternative meat company launches on the US stock exchange and raises billions; farmers turn to mobile abattoirs; and much wanted rain for south-east Australia.

Volunteers keeping migrating birds on track; wine loving German couple criss-cross the globe to learn more about their passion; shearer celebrates 50 years of back-breaking work; cafe in remote frontier country serves up locally grown, freshly roasted coffee.

Farmers say the Landcare system was broken by successive Government cuts.