Queensland Country Hour

Tunnel net fishing trials abandoned, experimenting with shadehouses to grow capsicums, and could biocontrol end our rabbit problems for good?

Why Queensland's new recycling strategy won't help with the mounting farm plastic waste problem, local transmission of H5N1 bird flu confirmed in SA and a grazier's emotional plea for bone marrow donations. 

James Stinson's southern Queensland cattle property has only had 120mm of rain this year. But he says he'll avoid taking out a drought loan if he can. Meanwhile the Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine River catchments are being reviewed, the Draft Gulf Regional Water Assessment is out for consultation and priority allocations for the Bowen pipeline project are about to close. 

Queensland's Food Farmers' Commissioner calls for a crackdown on food fraud, the mysterious cotton disease wreaking havoc in the north, and parts of southern Queensland officially drought declared. 

Southern Queensland egg farmers concerned but prepared after confirmation of the state's first case of H5 bird flu in a migratory bird. What Syngenta withdrawing paraquat from the market means for the grains industry, and a grazing communities ponders life without a pool. 

Queensland's first suspected detection of H5 bird flu, New US tariffs, and the company behind the controversial Mt Challenger Wind Farm scraps part of the project.

Western cattle country to become weapons testing site, caterpillars spreading through sorghum, and the nuisance rain keeping northern cane harvesters out of the paddocks. 

For National Farm Safety week, potato grower Katherine Myers shares the story of her son Tommy, who is still recovering from a major injury suffered on the farm. Also, a look at the return on investment of QRIDA loans, and celebrating sunflowers. 

Purple passionfruit avoid an unpleasant future with the first new varieties in 20 years, a shipment of Australian mungbeans rejected by importer over chemical residues, and the tiny fish surviving on a former cattle station. 

Getting into the meaty issues with the future of outback butchers, how beef genetics are changing both the meat and dairy industries, and the RSPCA's new voluntary standard for chicken welfare.