Joint winner of Australian Farmer of the Year and for excellence in both Innovation and Technology, Matthew Davey from Kalimar Ag at Clinton Centre on Yorke Peninsula spoke with Jase Regan on Country Viewpoint about the 2021 season so far, and why the honours went his way

Regional health has lit up as a battleground at the March 2022 state election, with the Liberal government and Labor opposition bidding on who will spend the most in the regions. In Whyalla and heading west today, Minister Wade also addresses whether the Liberals WILL build a Barossa hospital, and says country SA people's health outcomes are poorer - hence a new spending program on preventative regional health

With the mouse plague ravaging parts of country NSW, did the NSW government err in pushing for APVMA approval of - and stockpiling - self-described 'napalm' bromadiolone, rather than helping get more zinc phosphide in farmers' hands?

Ransomware is an increasing form of cyber-attack with potential devastating financial ramifications and logistical disruption to Australian supply chains. Cyber attackers have infiltrated the Australian agriculture sector with an attack on our wool brokers on Talman Software across ANZ, bringing operations to a halt for eight days. Another more recent example saw hackers have a major effect on the world’s largest meat processor, JBS, causing 47 meat processing and packing plants to cease operations for several days… and a ransom payment of over $14 million.

After the leadership change from Michael McCormack to Barnaby Joyce on Monday, Dr Webster tells Country Viewpoint's Jason Regan that National Party policy has changed to remove the 450 gigalitre savings target from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

South East SA resident and Member of the Legislative Council for the South Australian Labor Party, Clare Scriven MLC, spoke as shadow minister for regional development on what she described as a disappointing budget for regional SA.