Country Breakfast

Wool's peak research and marketing body faces a grilling; pests continue to cost Australian farms a fortune; the ACCC is working with states to develop a star safety rating system for quad bikes and Australian berry sales continue to boom.

We sharpen up the knives for a home butchering session; country kids become super sleuths at a science camp; and Lyn Wearing hand-rears poddy lambs on Elabe Station.

National Energy Guarantee 'promising' for farmers; Regional towns go it alone to strike renewable energy deals; Warning discrimination against older workers will cut economic growth; South Australian station sold at auction for $8.4 million.

Inquiry into Modern Slavery hears debt bondage for workers in Australian horticulture akin to slavery; Female firefighters are stepping up to frontline roles to protect their country communities.

Why $400,000 house and car packages are not enough to attract GPs to stay in the bush; Wasabi crop mastered by far north Queensland chef-cum-farmer.

An organic orchard turns itself into a farm co-op; a Swiss engineer makes boutique olive oil; the Australian Boys Choir sings in the outback; and we go paddling the Darling River.

Calls for an overhaul of farm worker visas as unemployed Australians refuse to pick fruit; Halloween pumpkin crop brings relief to cyclone impacted north Queensland growers.