Attending the Growing SA conference on Tuesday 30 August 2022, the Mackillop MP talks about his recent motorcycle trip through Flow's regional broadcast areas in several states, farming conditions, the challenges of input costs and the close attention he'll be paying to the SA Primary Industries Minister's speech at the conference about electronic traceability of sheep and foot & mouth disease preventative measures

The State Opposition claimed on Sunday 28 August 2022 the Malinauskas Labor Government had 'dropped the ball' on the Female Facilities program investment plans for women's sport. Flow spoke with the shadow minister for sport, recreation and racing on Monday morning.

Michell Direct Wool trader Andrew Partridge reflects on an Australian wool trading week that, despite Fremantle not being active this week, prices remained relatively subdued but the offering remained healthy compared with the same time last year.

Heading off from Thursday's sheep sales at Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales, RLA's James Tierney https://www.riverinaagents.com.au/consultant/10/james-tierney reports in for Flow's Country Viewpoint program

Healthy rainfall and few areas affected by waterlogging spells good growing conditions so far for South Australia's cropping sector as livestock and grain producers alike look forward to a good year and the Growing SA conference Tuesday 30 August at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills

Water Security for the Eyre Peninsula isn't just for local benefit, the local Liberal state MP says. with River Murray water reaching as far out as Penong over 800km from the Murray River at times - he responds to criticisms from the SA Water Minister of the former Liberal government's record on Eyre Peninsula water security and calls for a selected site for desalination at the foot of the peninsula to be swiftly implemented

Amid a fruit fly outbreak in the fruit fly free zone in South Australia's Riverland, the Primary Industries and Regions minister Clare Scriven says the Riverland town of Waikerie will be the site of a unique trial for householders to replace an existing fruit tree - perhaps one they find hard to maintain - with a substitute tree, 'preferably not a fruit tree' after fruit fly was detected in unmaintained backyard trees

Australian and South African wool industry bodies have been liaising over how South Africa resumed their wool trade with China should the unthinkable happen and foot and mouth disease be detected in Australia. Jo Hall the Wool Producers Australia CEO also responds to comments on Flow from the Sheep Industry Fund (SA) chair Ian Rowett on who should pay for national electronic traceability for sheep, not wholly the poor old farmers.

The Mid-North South Australian farmer chairing the Sheep Industry Fund, a unique South Australian levy initiative on livestock transactions to fund measures for the benefit of the sheep industry, talks through this year's spending initiatives and expresses a view on electronic traceability of sheep (as recently agreed by national agriculture ministers to mimic the Victorian system) on who should bear the costs of the scheme

Supporting local Liberal candidate Paul Matheson in the coalition's attempts to win back the north west Victorian seat of Mildura, the visiting shadow minister for transport, infrastructure, child protection and youth affairs speaks about the region's health challenges and the need to move local produce freight off of roads onto rail - and speaks about the independent audit findings on the significantly greater cost of the Suburban Rail Loop