The future of the Murray Darling Basin plan heats up in Canberra; our legume growers head to India to engage in talks on tariffs; update on Queensland fruit fly; consumers want more ethically sourced meats; sending Blood Orange juice back to where it comes from; a different selling mechanism tabled for milk; moving back to glass bottles for milk; and hay bale and silage art.

Court battle over cattle genome continues; farmers working on ways to save energy; do happy cows make happy farmers? sunflower tourism, not great news for farmers; companion planting for broadacre crops; we see how the MDBA plan is effecting the environment; and our changing beef intake.

Further concern over India's plan to raise tariffs on pulses; sheep tag roll out continues; cider apple harvest earlier due to hot conditions; ABARE's report into foreign labour on farms; Tassie fruit travelling to Victoria to be treated for fruit fly; African maize harvest in Mildura; retiring from the dairy farm and we head off to Heywire in Canberra.

The Murray Darling Basin debate continues; egg producers feeling the pinch from animal welfare groups; dairy farmers looking to new careers; Is Australian too reliant on China as an export market?; talking wine labels coming to a bottle near you and counselling via text messaging.

Murray Goulburn announced half yearly results; the outlook for dairy looking gloomy; Greens pushing for more water to be returned to MDBA; NSW Government concerned about future of MDB Plan; Avalon airport starts exporting fresh produce; concern for pulse growers about Indian tariffs; Enquiry into APVMA: further calls for Kangaroo pet food production in Victoria; and the number of small pig producers is on the rise.

Federal Labor back Greens on MDBA changes; Brazil announces major changes to live exports of cattle; it's a wrap, this years grain harvest; new truck laws may hit farmers; drinking wine from a keg; free range egg changes coming; more funds to help vaccine research and robots helping farmers.

Mapping out our major energy future on agenda in Canberra; Scientists concerned about the Murray Darling Basin Plans future; the fallout from the fruit fly outbreak in Tasmania; changes to farmland sales to overseas buyers a concern for locals; a new pigpass to identify pigs; local government concerned about muddy tyres from farmers; the latest on the wool market and feeding the right feed to your chickens.

What do the new rules for international buyers of our farmland mean; HIA on the lookout for a new CEO; what the chemical contamination is costing a Gippsland eel fisherman; pay gap for wine grape growers; what does the Chinese new year mean for our wool market; where do ag graduates go after uni; potatoes growers celebrating a good season; and looking ahead to Landline this week.

Sellers of Australian farm land will have to demonstrate they've given local buyers a chance to purchase it under new foreign ownership rules. Gippsland's grain harvest has wrapped up after a frustrating year for some farmers having to battle unfavourable weather.

Murray Goulburn Rochester site closes today; the current seasonal weather sees a rise in sheep worms; a study looks at how heat effects sheep; looking ahead to 2018 and the cattle markets; further calls for a grass fed beef grower group; Tasmanian fruit exports restricted to Taiwan due to fruit fly; RABO bank forecaster the coming year in ag; and AWI announces details of wool poll.