Victorian Country Hour

Josie Blakeney performs the song she wrote about devastating bushfires for the Country Hour

A go slow for backpacker visas has industry concerned

Live from the Alexandra main street for Flanno for a Farmer 

Farm fashion advice for Waz for Flanno for a Farmer Day

Job cuts at SunRice and vaccinations for bird flu 

Our season census... the season so far... 

Rain and a bird flu update 

Warwick Long is live from the Elevate Dairy Innovator Roadshow in Shepparton!

Bird flu, chemical use, station sales and anti-corruption reports today on the Country Hour

A review of the BoM, fines for farmers, the Mallee Machinery Field Days and a lot of money raised for charity 

A Victorian government reshuffle and the rules for free range labelling under the threat of bird flu

Stock loss, cattle theft, bird flu and the BoM website 

Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from the Shearing for Kids with Cancer at Wanalta

The deadly H5 strain of bird flu is detected in Victoria for the first time 

A big look at a major bushfire inquiry 

Ben Carroll becomes the next Premier of Victoria 

A key review of the summer bushfires will be released tomorrow and we hear what those on the front line want to see 

A big day of tariffs for Australian agricultural exports 

Lactalis Australia will close a dairy factory in Victoria 

How hard is it to get a meeting with the Water Minister 

53 farmers died on Australian farms last year 

One farm is charging $10 to walk in a canola paddock and 20,000 people turned up 

We get your bird flu questions answered 

We check up on the soil moisture situation right around Victoria 

The United States opens an investigation into Australian lamb imports 

An engineer examines the state of Victoria's roads and what needs to be done to improve the road network.

The state opposition is promising to fix one million potholes across Victoria's road network if elected to government at this years state election, committing to invest $5 billion to repair and rebuild Victoria's roads.

Red meat prices are running hot at the moment, with the supply and demand for sheepmeat and beef very much in favour of farmers who are selling.

Country Fire Authority members at one of the worst affected districts in this year's summer bushfires, say the Longwood region is currently without any CFA senior fire officers.

Telstra's mobile network has suffered a major nationwide outage, potentially affecting millions of customers.

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry into last summer's bushfires, has revealed the Victorian government attempted to gag what the Country Fire Authority could say in its submission.  

Australia now has six detections of H5 bird flu in wild birds confirmed by CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong. Acting Chief Veterinary Officer, Cameron Bell with Agriculture Victoria, is encouraging bird owners to be on high alert.

Learn about obscure wine, collect spider venom and meet the woman on a 440km wheelchair journey  

Tea tree oil is being tested as a flystrike treatment in sheep 

A program of buybacks from willing sellers of agricultural land has been launchhed by the federal government 

Rain across Victoria 

Peter Small has succeeded in returning the research of Harold Carter to Australia

It's a bad year for blackleg in canola 

Water, sheep and regenerative agriculture music in today's Country Hour

Victorian Country Hour broadcast live from Ballarat's Better Beef Conference 

A major decision on the future of Paraquat and Diquat is handed down by the chemical regulator 

Farmers and vets fear a deadly bird flu strain discovered in Western Australia is spreading, after the H5N1 variant of the virus was confirmed in a bird found on a remote beach.