Rural Focus

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On Rural Focus this morning Leah spoke with Mia the founder of Howdy Global a dating app just for farmers and people living in the regions.

Plus Dave Paton from CBH joined us to give us the final numbers for the 2024/2025 grain harvest and Nutrien Ag Solutions took us through the crop protection market.

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Rail safety advocate Lara Jensen is back on the show to share where we are at with the new campaign Rail Fail, and if there has been any change in improving train lighting and making level crossings safer.

Plus Cally Dupe editor of The Countryman shares this weeks headlines.

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Craig Walker takes us through this weeks sheep cattle report right out of Muchea.

Plus we talk to Bill Crabtree from 4Farmers about the return of some classic herbicides, and Darren O'Dea gives us the headlines from Farm Weekly.

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On the show today we were joined by the Member for Central Wheatbelt Mia Davies to find out what she's been up too and discuss some topics that are front of mind.

Plus we speak with Lauren Patane to talk about horticulture and the onion season.

We are also joined by Grower Relations Manager Berin Gibbons from the GRDC to get an update on upcoming events.

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Last week the Australian Meat Industry Council released updated standards for livestock processing, one of the changes is the introduction of mandatory video surveillance for accredited processing facilities. We spoke to acting CEO Tim Ryan about the changes.

We were also joined by Harry Carol and Matt Watts from Nutrien Ag Solutions to give us the market report out of Mt Barker and look at an outlook for the year in livestock.

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Steve Bolt from The Livestock Collective joins Leah to share more about the footage from onboard a live export ship that headed out to the Middle East over Christmas.

Plus Owen Catto is back from Regional Men's Health Initiative to talk about the importance of Men looking after themselves and booking those all important appointments with health professionals.

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Bailiwick Legal is back to help us with lease agreements, to make sure we know what to look out for in ours especially when farms are involved.

Plus Adam Poulsen from The Countryman delivers this weeks headlines and we chat exciting events with CEO Shona Gawel from Grain Growers.

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Craig Walker is back with out livestock market report out of Muchea yards, we get the headlines from Farm Weekly, plus DPIRD joins us to take us through their farm business resilience program funding being rolled out in the next few months and how you can benefit.

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Ever wanted to know more about how drone mustering works? We chat to SkyKelpie founder Luke Chaplain about the application, and Dan from Sunwise is back this time talking about solar and the heatwave.

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We are looking at the end of January already and for many of us we may be feeling disappointed towards the goals we wanted to achieve, so Roger from Rural Aid joins us to give us a perspective shift and some encouragement that will help you from throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Plus the wonderful Tracy Lefroy, long-time member of the RRR Network joins us to share about her nomination to be elected in the 2025 CBH Member Director Elections for District 2.

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