Queensland Country Hour

The conflict in the Middle East is continuing to put pressure on global oil markets, but there could be a stabilisation in fuel prices soon. Industry leaders, policymakers and experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities shaping Australia's food security and agricultural future. And it's shaping up to be a bumper lychee season thanks to strong flowering and increased plantings ... but farmers aren't getting ahead of themselves just yet.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

A 95-year-old Injune woman has received an award from the Bureau of Meteorology for decades of service. 

A Queensland paddock that's currently running cattle could soon be home to Australia's largest data centre, the Innisfail beekeepers who are responsible for the discovery of Australia's northernmost Varroa mite detection and Canegrowers organisation looks back on 100 years of representing Queensland's sugar cane farmers, celebrating the legends who built the industry with their bare hands. 

Australia imports two thirds of its seafood production but that might mean we're exporting our environmental footprint, celebrating a young Queensland students win for her research into a crop disease and how the upcoming papaya season is shaping up.  

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Queensland parliament passes the controversial critical minerals bill, a proven connection between work to reduce farm run off and improved water quality to the Great Barrier Reef and meet the 16 year old selling horses to buy sheep.