Queensland Country Hour

Western Meat Exporters has survived the wool crash, drought, floods and major technological disruption to remain one of Queensland's only goat and sheep processors. 

Livestock trucks are getting stuck at the bottom of a north western gorge because they can't go fast enough to get up the other side, harvest contractors are out of work as the southern crop goes from too dry to too wet, and the battle for the best beef. 

A north Queensland dairy processor's pitch for more local milk, there has been plenty of rain, but is it drought breaking? And meet the 71-year-old horsewoman who says you're never too old to try new things. 

Proposed pineapple and banana imports scrutinised in Senate Estimates, two cows found on a north Qld island, and telecommunications ugrades to remote communities ahead of cyclone season. 

Weather presenter Jenny Woodward reflects on her career, her calendar, and her favourite weather term as she celebrates 40 years at the ABC. Roma retains its title as the top cattle selling centre, and is it time for Longreach to have a regular sale again?

Tallying the totals from a wet week in southern and central Queensland, Barley growers warned not to plant more than they bargain for, and Perfection Fresh admits to fixing the price of produce sold to ALDI. 

What cartel behaviour looks like, and what it means for the ACCC's federal court action against 12 egg producers, Queensland doubles the fine for stock crime, and Capricornia MP Michelle Landry announces she will not contest the next federal election. 

Southern Queensland is copping a battering squeezed between two weather patterns that are dropping a deluge, farmers urged to take up water in the Wamuran Irrigation Scheme, and the Blackall Woolscour clears its environment and development approvals.

A new alliance of Queensland landholders dealing with renewable energy developments meets for the first time, varroa mites detected in Townsville confirmed to be treatment resistant, and the outlook for the macadamia nut industry. 

Why paddocks are making more money than beef, Gulf cattle stations converted to national parks, and bananas are a little slow this year, but supply is ramping up.