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A service in Clare within the member for Frome's own electorate is one example of community driven assistance for those in mental distress, as Penny Pratt discusses with FlowFM listeners the services available and importance of being open to conversations about mental health
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Those in distress can contact Lifeline: 13 11 14 – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the text line 0477 13 11 14 - or Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 - www.beyondblue.org.au

Fresh from being dressed to the nines for the Agrifutures Rural Women's Awards at Parliament House, Canberra, the NSW Riverina MP Michael McCormack talks about the upcoming Lockhart Show, biosecurity, foot & mouth disease, local cropping conditions, bogged tractors - and the Riverina and Hume footy finals

From rail, freight and storage infrastructure to water policy in the Murray-Darling Basin with buybacks from farmers looming in 2024, FlowFM discusses with the National Farmers Federation CEO the NFF target for $100 billion farmgate value by 2030, on the day ABARES releases update data on national farmgate value at around $82 billion

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.