The Executive Director of Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), the science and economics research division of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, joins Flow to share the latest insights from ABARES' cropping and commodity value data released on Tuesday 6 September 2022

The Shadow Assistant Minister for Transport and Infrastructure in the Dutton-Littleproud Coalition opposition talks from Canberra at the resumption of parliamentary spring sittings about Coalition grants programs now in limbo as the incoming Albanese Labor Government reviews those spending commitments, and whether a rural road safety spending initiative will continue as rural and regional road deaths are disproportionate to the regional-metropolitan population balance nationwide

The Australian wool market has come off the recess sluggish, perhaps with indigestion driven by gas-fuelled demand concerns in Europe as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and related energy challenges continue - and winter looms

Cheryl Kalisch-Gordon from Rabobank Australia speaks with Rikki Lambert for Friday's Country Viewpoint program on Flow about the latest movements in grain and oilseed prices worldwide, how that affects and compares with Australian farmers' fortunes, and input costs - particularly urea and fertilisers - likely to rise as energy scarcity and the European winter develops

Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish (pictured left, with Rikki Lambert at the Growing SA conference in Hahndorf, South Australia on Tuesday 30 August 2022) speaks with Rikki about this week's action in the livestock markets in Australia and market factors like Foot and Mouth Disease, processor labour shortages and rebuilding herd and flock numbers

The Deputy Chief Officer for the West Region of Victoria for the Country Fire Authority, Adrian Gutsche, speaks with Flow listeners about being informed about the new nationally consistent fire danger rating system in force from 1 September

Australia has adopted a new, simplified fire danger warning system after recent tragedies and inquiries indicated clearer advice to residents and landholders on when to prepare and when to evacuate at varying levels of fire danger. The South Australian emergency services minister joins Flow on the first day of spring as the weather warms up on how to be informed, including with the help of Country Fire Service volunteers.

The MP for Flinders covering the Eyre Peninsula and South Australia's West Coast speaks with Flow as he hosts opposition leader David Speirs and shadow cabinet colleagues to Whyalla, the Eastern Eyre and Port Lincoln for community meetings and planning to promote regional South Australia

Overnight Standard and Poors / S&P provided an update on their economic outlook on South Australia and the shadow treasurer responded to comments from treasurer Stephen Mullighan provided to Flow that the negative outlook rating was placed on the state during the Marshall Liberal government's time in office prior to its defeat at the March 2022 state election

With debate continuing federally and across the nation on an indigenous voice to parliaments, the South Australian minister for Aboriginal Affairs is heading all over the state to consult on what that voice might look like to South Australia's parliament, and shares how last Friday's indigenous affairs ministers' meeting in Adelaide went on Closing the Gap in health and other outcomes for indigenous people