Queensland Country Hour

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

Testing underway on a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu identified in a seabird at Hawks Nest in NSW. As the new EPBC takes effect, farmers and conservationists share their views of the laws, and meet Bill Webb, the man who makes better belts than RM!

Junction View landholders meet to discuss sandstone quarry concerns, milking spiders to fight varroa mites, and the flystrike breakthrough combining nanotechnology and tea tree oil.  

A plant pathogen being readied to spread on the wind to fight Lantana. The sandstone quarry proposal that has graziers worried. And sharing farm jokes on international joke day.  

Value of Aussie horticulture doubles in a decade, the federal government is investigating Brazilian meat producer JBS over its use of student visas at Australia's largest beef abattoir in southern Queensland. And Birdsville's tough tourism season. 

Bradley and Anne-Marie Pike nearly lost it all in 2018. Instead of dwelling on what was gone, the family used the bushfire that threatened their home and farm as a catalyst to change. 

Concerns as Telstra phases out the Customer Access Network radio system, why the pork industry wants the same country of origin labelling as seafood, and Australia's largest lake, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre transformed by record wet. 

Qld's looming pollinator shortage, the state government backflips on protecting the Condamine Alluvium, finding and keeping love in the bush. 

Murray Darling Basin review report released, the research challenging assumptions about who is a farmer, and Australia's locust outlook forecasts moderate-to-high infestation risk.

Qld DPI's budget hits $863 million, reef water quality strategy backed by $2 billion, and allegations raw peanuts are being imported illegally by the container load.