Country Breakfast

This week breaking in 70 wild brumbies in just seven days; meet John Francom the wheelchair farmer, and 84-year-old rain man Peter Jones; and catch mud crabs to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Murray-Darling Basin Plan in disarray; Rising power prices prompt farmers to buy wholesale; Beetroot juice could be key to fighting obesity; Glass milk bottles make a comeback; Flower imports reach records ahead of Valentine's Day.

Follow the journey country kids take to get back to boarding school; abiu is something new for the fruit bowl; we check out the sport of horse vaulting; and grind buckwheat for noodle chefs.

New free-range egg laws to ensure shoppers get what they pay for; Dairy processor facing gloomy outlook; Extreme weather leads to patchwork harvest; Restaurants and pubs move to keg wine.

This week, do farmers need a robot? A look at the pioneering work developing robots who can do everything from weeding to mustering cattle; and we meet some young people trailblazing their way through Canberra this week.

We go on a hunt for sugarhoney honey; build a stone wall house in Tasmania; grow and graft grevilleas; and meet prawn trawler first mate Nadine Adams.

This week we head to northern Australia to find out what it's like to work and live on remote northern cattle stations; and why did 25,000 tonnes of fish get airlifted to Darwin?

Australian farmland to be offered to local buyers first; Farm sector to benefit from improved economic conditions; Murray Goulburn's Rochester dairy factory closes; Taiwan moves to suspend Tasmanian fruit imports in wake of fruit fly discovery; Farmers strip off to break down barriers around mental health.