Queensland Country Hour

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.

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.

JBS Australia sells stake to a major Indonesian Investment company, opportunities for young women pursuing a career in ag-tech and why a Queensland mushroom grower is closing its doors.

The plan to lift the value of Queensland agriculture to $30 billion by 2030 gets its first KPIs, how the EKKA is handling the threat of bird flu, and meet Myra Collom, who hasn't missed the Royal Show in 63 years.  

Beef Week at the EKKA is in full swing, with feature breed Charolais in the spotlight. Meet the breeders and steer leaders, and one Cracker of a heavy bull. 

Case IH pulled out of the cotton harvester market 15 years ago, but now they're coming back. Reflecting on 30 years of BT Cotton, and is the free ride over on pollination services?

The cotton industry unites to reflect on the past, prepare for the future and navigate an increasingly unstable world. And calls for a national labour hire licensing program to combat worker exploitation horticulture.

Pregnant cows and calves are among 142 wagyu cross cattle believed to have been stolen, Australia's red meat is finding a home in the land of maple syrup and ice hockey, and a surge in gun licence applications in Qld. 

Tunnel net fishing trials abandoned, experimenting with shadehouses to grow capsicums, and could biocontrol end our rabbit problems for good?

Why Queensland's new recycling strategy won't help with the mounting farm plastic waste problem, local transmission of H5N1 bird flu confirmed in SA and a grazier's emotional plea for bone marrow donations. 

James Stinson's southern Queensland cattle property has only had 120mm of rain this year. But he says he'll avoid taking out a drought loan if he can. Meanwhile the Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine River catchments are being reviewed, the Draft Gulf Regional Water Assessment is out for consultation and priority allocations for the Bowen pipeline project are about to close. 

Queensland's Food Farmers' Commissioner calls for a crackdown on food fraud, the mysterious cotton disease wreaking havoc in the north, and parts of southern Queensland officially drought declared. 

Southern Queensland egg farmers concerned but prepared after confirmation of the state's first case of H5 bird flu in a migratory bird. What Syngenta withdrawing paraquat from the market means for the grains industry, and a grazing communities ponders life without a pool. 

Queensland's first suspected detection of H5 bird flu, New US tariffs, and the company behind the controversial Mt Challenger Wind Farm scraps part of the project.

Western cattle country to become weapons testing site, caterpillars spreading through sorghum, and the nuisance rain keeping northern cane harvesters out of the paddocks. 

For National Farm Safety week, potato grower Katherine Myers shares the story of her son Tommy, who is still recovering from a major injury suffered on the farm. Also, a look at the return on investment of QRIDA loans, and celebrating sunflowers. 

Purple passionfruit avoid an unpleasant future with the first new varieties in 20 years, a shipment of Australian mungbeans rejected by importer over chemical residues, and the tiny fish surviving on a former cattle station. 

Getting into the meaty issues with the future of outback butchers, how beef genetics are changing both the meat and dairy industries, and the RSPCA's new voluntary standard for chicken welfare. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Farmers retain access to Paraquat, but Parksinsons Australia vows to fight the APVMA's decision, Qld's chief vet outlines our bird flu preparedness, and why parents are worried about the future of distance education. 

Vigilance urged over detection of H5N1 bird flu in WA, Macadamia's booming in the North, and the peanut industry stays confident even in the midst of production pressure.