Australia’s key food security event, the Crawford Fund's annual conference, is underway in Today you’ll hear from keynote speaker Professor Glenn Denning, former global Australian of the year.

Also why do some communities secure a ‘good deal’ in return for hosting renewables, while others miss out.

And the live sheep export trade has been in decline for decades.. well before the federal government decided to ban it.

Country Today was at the FutureAg Expo in Melbourne last week and spoke to Lola Rauch from the Agritechnica biennial agricultural machinery trade fair in Hanover which is coming up in November in Germany.

Athena IR tech company has developed the technology to measure transpiration in vineyards and orchards to advise farmers when the crops need more or less water.

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