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The member for Mackillop covering South Australia's south east, southern Mallee and lower River Murray communities talks about the protracted and challenging harvest and growing conditions in cropping and horticulture - and continued advocacy for the vision of the Tolmer Speedway Bordertown

The Victorian Nationals' Member-elect for the seat of Mildura in north western Victoria speaks with Flow about the challenges facing the farming industry including horticulture and cropping, her imminent swearing in on Tuesday and the challenges facing the electorate under a re-elected Andrews Labor government

... and the Liberal federal member for Grey speaks about a great winter crop harvest underway in South Australia particularly in the western part of his large regional and remote electorate

The federal agriculture and emergency management minister Murray Watt speaks with Flow listeners across regional South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales on the common themes he's picked up visiting flood affected or threatened communities (like Mildura Vic, Berri and Renmark SA on Monday) including a desire from councils and shires to 'build back better' before future natural disasters, farmers fatigued by recurrent challenges and farm labour needs for future harvests amid a massive visa backlog.

From fertiliser to horticulture, wool to cattle we look forward to 2023 in Australian agriculture and Rural Bank's projections on how next year will go for Australian farmers with ProFarmer's Sean Hickey

Farmer and independent member for Murray talks about impacts on farmers like herself and local communities in south western New South Wales from heavy rainfall and flooding, water management in the Murray Darling Basin and water releases from dams that spilled, the NSW Nationals' aspirations to reclaim the seat she wrested off them in March 2019 - and meetings she secured in Canberra on water and farming policy with Water Minister Tanya Plibersek and Agriculture Minister Murray Watt.

After a big dive in the markets in recent weeks, we discuss with Meat and Livestock Australia's Jenny Lim a slight uptick for cattle and sheep producers as saleyards begin to wind up for a well-earned Christmas break.

Episode3.net's Andrew Whitelaw shares his thoughts on a huge harvest coming through despite the sad tales for some in the east and what that could mean on pricing for grain sellers going into 2023.

The wool market lifted for its second last week of sales with optimism that China's lockdowns would ease seeing some unprecedented buying activity, resulting in a huge number of bales listed for next week's final round of 2022 wool auctions

Flow catches up with the Primary Industries Forest Industries and Regional Development minister Clare Scriven MLC on the increased frequency of meetings for the nation's agriculture ministers and their deliberations on traceability and electronic tagging of sheep (and who pays for it), farm labour needs and visa processing and the promising future of ag tech and careers in agriculture