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South Australia's peak grain producer body is seeking dialogue with the Country Fire Service about a different arrangement on new rules on harvesting their crops during fire danger periods and welcomes the very strong interest in SA government grants for farm firefighting unit upgrades - and more would be welcome

From promoting sustainability, provenance and traceability to the long-wearing and all-climate comfort 100% Australian wool provides, Wool Producers Australia CEO Jo Hall discusses with regional listeners on FlowFM the value of promoting Australian wool particularly in a less than favourable trading conditions in the global apparel retail market

Some federal Labor government MPs have inserted into recent debate about a parliamentary code of conduct the need to control racism, sexism and 'micro-aggressions' - after he was shouted down in the senate by Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe for 'racism' (which she later withdrew), the South Australian Liberal senator discusses with Flow listeners what future awaits us if parliament accommodates microaggression concerns

'Too little, too late' is the refrain from the NSW Farmers' Conservation and Resource Management Committee chair Louise Burge after the MDBA announced on Friday 23 September 2022 it would immediately increase Hume Dam releases https://www.mdba.gov.au/news-media-events/newsroom/media-centre/releases-hume-dam-increase-create-more-airspace - a day after the QEII Memorial Day call from the farming association that Dam levels were being maintained based on drought-era thinking https://mailchi.mp/nswfarmers/governments-risk-repeated-preventable-flooding?e=65ae4b78e7

It hasn't been the greatest week of all for Aussie wool growers but perhaps Geelong Cats AFL fans will have something to smile about on Saturday, as dyed in the wool blue-and-white fan Andrew Partridge is always on the ball and searching for light at home and far away for Aussie sheep farmers

Sean from Pro Farmer Australia (www.profarmergrain.com.au) updates FlowFM listeners for Friday's Country Viewpoint program on the latest developments for grain and canola growers in domestic and international markets

Great prices for producers in southern New South Wales and continued vigilance over biosecurity threats like Foot and Mouth Disease in Indonesia feature in Friday's Country Viewpoint interview on FlowFM with Thomas Elder Markets livestock analyst Matt Dalgleish

The Malinauskas Labor government reinstated a farm firefighting unit grant program with the first funding round seeing around 1,200 applications and over 260 farmers provided funding to assist with regional South Australian future firefighting response capacity

Rising interest rates in an attempt to contain inflation in Australia are potentially hitting retailers at a time when consumer demand is what is keeping them afloat, the National Retailers Association of Australia says as the first Tuesday of October RBA board meeting to further change the cash rate looms large

With regional Australia feeding commodities strongly into the Chinese economy, a recent projection from ratings agency S&P Global that China would not be returning soon to strong growth levels, but engaging in structural reform, had listeners intent on learning what factors might be driving that change and what it could mean for global and, indeed, Australian primary producers