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    • Jun 3, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Latest episodes from Northern Territory Country Hour

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 49:46


    How can Territory farmers protect their fruit from tomato brown rugose virus?  Strawberry prices rising.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 50:49


    Cotton harvest set to kick off in the Douglas Daly region this week. Biosecurity authorities say tomato brown rugose fruit virus here to stay.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 49:27


    Who got the top price at this year's Ponderosa bull sale? Brazil officially achieves FMD-free status without need for vaccination. 

    Brazil declared free of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 6:20


    In major news for the global beef trade, Brazil has been declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) without the need for vaccination.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 51:52


    Large-scale gold mining returns to the Barkly. Should bounties on feral animals be introduced in the Northern Territory?

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 51:21


    Record breaking May-rain in the Northern Territory. What does it mean for cattle producers, mango growers and cotton growers? 

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 48:15


    North-west cloud band bringing significant rain into the Northern Territory. Eighteen Indonesian nationals plead guilty to illegal fishing.

    'Water critical for economic development': Interview with NT water controller Andrew Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 14:52


    The Northern Territory's water controller says over the last two years he has made about 300 decisions around water.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 50:09


    Has Australia's diamond industry lost its sparkle? All of the action from the sold-out Noonamah rodeo.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 47:32


    Merlin diamond mine operator goes into voluntary administration. All the action from the poultry pavilion at the Freds Pass Rural Show. 

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 47:20


    AACo has today released its yearly financial results. Meet the man trucking hundreds of chickens to the Northern Territory.

    AACo FY25 results: Interview with chief executive David Harris

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 11:46


    AACo has posted an operating profit of $58.4 million, up 14 per cent year on year. 

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 46:54


    Fishing industry calls for stronger action on illegal fishing in northern waters. Has the cold snap in Central Australia "nuked" the booming fly population?

    Manganese exports resume for South32 out of Groote Eylandt, 14 months after cyclone damage

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 10:02


    Mining company South32 is celebrating an important milestone on Groote Eylandt this week.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 51:30


    What does the Federal Coalition split mean for the Northern Territory? Lumpy skin disease wargaming at Berrimah Farm.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 48:03


    Mango twig tip dieback research funded and ready to start. Cahills Crossing reopens for 2025.  

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 46:12


    National hay market explodes as drought conditions tighten in southern Australia. Indonesian demand for northern cattle remains high. 

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 47:36


    The year's first green mangoes hit the Sydney Markets. And the colourful, sweet and spicy chilli being bred for Territory tastebuds.

    New season green mangoes reach Sydney Markets, but NT fruit facing increased competition from imports

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 8:21


    Northern Territory farmers are already picking green (unripe) mangoes and sending them to market. But the NT fruits are facing increased competition from Vietnamese imports.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 50:52


    Minister Gerard Maley joins us to talk about the NT Budget. Meet the detective dogs sniffing out invasive parthenium weed.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 52:56


    Agriculture department funding slashed in NT budget. Gorrie Station paddock walk shows off wet season fodder crops. 

    End of an era: Chris Nathanael's Tropiculture Australia closes down after nearly 50 years of operation

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 19:15


    One of the Northern Territory's biggest and most loved commercial nurseries has closed down.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 51:49


    Vale David Warriner, a legend of the north's cattle industry. How many fish were caught at the Barra Classic? And how can they help scientists?.

    Vale David Warriner, former president of the NT Cattlemen's Association and a legend of the north's beef industry

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 12:17


    Former president of the NT Cattlemen's Association (NTCA) and a legend of the north's beef industry, David Warriner, has died aged 59.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 55:01


    One of the NT's biggest and most loved commercial nurseries, Tropiculture Australia, is closing down after nearly 50 years of operation. 

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 48:08


    Record Aussie beef exports in April. Road transport industry calls for new recruits to fill thousands of driver vacancies.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 48:20


    A 10,000 megalitre water licence has been granted to an irrigation project near Larrimah. Which Northern Territory frog sounds like a cross between a lawnmower and a chicken?    

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 49:44


    Australian mining giant plants native pongamia trees as future diesel fuel substitute. Meet the Alice Springs horticulturalist who discovered the Oliver palm variety.  

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 47:34


    What will a second term Labor government mean for the agriculture and mining industries? The former tobacco drying facility reborn as a hops processing plant.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 46:36


    Alice Springs-raised droughtmasters inspire envy from NSW producers. Locust swarms tear through buffel grass pasture in parts of outback Queensland.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 52:10


    Country Hour joins the action at the Alice Springs cattle sale. WA sheep producers blast leaked plans for live export phase-out funding.  

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 52:31


    What does the critical minerals sector make of Labor's new stockpile plan? Millie the pink bus sets off on a 2000 kilometre journey to take mammograms to remote women.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 49:20


    Southern processors showing interest ahead of Alice Springs cattle sale. New China abattoir export licences a good sign for beef, says meat industry council.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 48:39


    The banana prawn season gets off to one of its toughest starts. Taking out the Daly Waters campdraft open a 'bucket list' moment for the winner.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 45:57


    The ANZAC Day dawn service at Daly Waters attracted a large crowd of 300 people and plenty of horses. The Country Hour takes a look at the importance of emu feathers to the Australian Light Horse. 

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    What are the opportunities for growing agave in northern Australia?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 14:12


    Agave is now being trialled across several sites in the Northern Territory. 

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 45:47


    Bunnings strikes deal with plant growers 'fearful of retribution'. What killed 250,000 bees in NSW?

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 49:38


    What are the opportunities for growing agave in northern Australia? Protecting Clydesdales.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 50:52


    Tropical low brings welcome rain to north east Arnhem Land. Meet the company on the hunt for beryllium in the NT.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 51:27


    Should buffel grass be declared a weed of national significance? Tropical low approaching Gove Peninsula.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 49:25


    Some Northern Territory Easter seafood favourites are in short supply this year. Country Hour takes you inside a Darwin chocolate kitchen.

    NT Country Hour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 48:38


    Indigenous rangers hold major fire season planning meeting. Wellard to become a shipping company with no ships, after shareholders approve the sale of MV Ocean Drover.

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