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

The South Australian Opposition leader agrees with federal Liberal colleague Tony Pasin's assessment that premier Peter Malinauskas has failed his first leadership test on River Murray flooding, also expressing the state Liberals' support for 'the nuclear conversation' in what was earlier this week a bipartisan support for small modular reactors in the future state energy mix, until Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the Premier he was 'wrong' and the latter retracted his support on ABC 7.30

The South Australian government has launched a website to promote produce from the Riverland and Mid Murray communities and book ahead future tourism opportunities for when floodwaters subside.

The South Australian MP whose state electorate of Chaffey covers the Upper Murray River communities expresses concern that flow levels equalling the 1970s flooding seem to be producing a higher river level than back then, as we discuss flooding and transport impacts in the region - and the importance of supporting River Murray tourism and commerce