Queensland Country Hour

Using pomgamia to explore biofuels and grazing coexistence,tension over water use in the Taroom Trough, and saddling up for the rodeo in Charters Towers.

Queensland farmers call for stronger protections for prime cropping land to be protected from development, concerns Qld Hydro is withholding information about the Borumba project and the latest on the Blackall Woolscour.

The United States is investigating whether it should impose tariffs on Australian lamb, concerns proposed changes to critical minerals development approvals will prevent landholders from challenging projects, and dealing with data centres in the age of AI.

A Queensland grazier shares his experience hosting a visit from the boss of the new EPA, what it takes to select Brahman for sale, and what the escalation of conflict in the Strait of Hormuz means for fuel prices. 

Are graziers still getting bang for their cattle levy buck? A few weeks on from Australia hitting its quota for beef into China the market remains unsettled, and the Coen biosecurity facility in north Queensland set to reopen.  

The head of the new national EPA says its compliance efforts will focus on deliberate breaches of new land clearing legislation, a cactus grower shares his love of prickly plants, and meet one of the first indigenous female woolbrokers.

The head of Australia’s first National Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) John Bradley says the agency will focus its efforts on deliberate breaches of new land clearing rules, not farmers trying to do the right thing. 

A south-east Queensland business fined for sending a pallet of bricks infested with fire ants to a Bowen Basin mine site, why can no longer sell Moringa as a food in Australia, and can coffee's boom benefit farmers?

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.