Country Today

Country Today - August 7th


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Country Today is at the FutureAg Expo at the Melbourne showgrounds you’ll hear about Green Lighting Agriculture … the technology to turn air into liquid nitrogen fertilizer.

Brad Collins is a dairy farmer in Victoria's south west, an area better known for its dryland farming. He has developed a 100 percent self-sufficient irrigation system on his farm.

Working Bee Drones which can do everything from selecting spraying weeds in inaccessible hilly country, to mustering or monitoring cattle with heat sensors.

Michael Taylor is a merino farmer in the New England Tablelands. He lost a significant number of trees on his land and had to consider the long term investment in creating a new ecosystem. He joins Farmers for Climate Action CEO, Natalie Collard to discuss the transition to renewables.

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