Western Australia Country Hour

The state fisheries minister has being urged to take immediate action to protect WA's iconic dhufish, after confidential documents revealed its sustainability risk has escalated from high to severe. 

Western Australia's beekeepers are now stepping up to help drought affected farmers in South Australia.

A new program designed to support the mental wellbeing of veterinarians has secured the funding it needs for a national roll-out. 

Country town residents relive AC/DC/Sherbet tours of the 1970s.

Australia has lifted biosecurity restrictions on beef imports from the United States. 

The WA record price for lamb was broken at the Katanning sheep market today reaching $320 per head. 

A Victorian dairy farmer and former livestock agent has has been banned from owning cattle for 10 years, after being convicted and fined $75,000 for extensive animal cruelty offences.

Western Australia's first targeted aerial cull of feral deer has started in the state's south. 

The Kelpies for Kids project will feature on Landline this week. 

A new national record price for lambs was set yesterday at the Forbes saleyard, in the central west of New South Wales, with a pen of second cross lambs sold for $454 dollars a head.

The transition advocate for phase out of the live sheep trade by sea is confident the funds and assistance available, in the lead up to the end of the trade in 2028, offers a bright future for the WA sheep industry.

The federal agriculture minister Julie Collins visited Western Australia to announce further details of the $139.7 million transition assistance package to support the phase out of live sheep exports by sea.

At a farm school, just south of Perth, a new crossbreed of cattle have been born, using semen from an African breed of cattle called the Nguni.

A farmer who died in a tragic accident in WA's South West last week has been remembered by his family as an "absolute larrikin who didn't have a mean bone in his body."

A new lithium mine officially opened in WA's northern Goldfields.

The Department of Agriculture has received footage from Animals Australia showing alleged non-compliance with ESCAS for sheep in Jordan during this year's Eid al-Adha.

Mining giant BHP has been defeated in a landmark test of the federal government's "same job, same pay" laws and ordered to pay 2,200 of its Central Queensland coal miners an average of $30,000 more.

The state government says on-shore wind projects will be a critical part of the energy mix if WA is going to switch off all state owned power stations by 2030.

Is the GRDC spending grain farmers levies wisely? Lots of listeners wanted to have their say today on the $680 million the Grains Research and Development Corporation has sitting in the bank. 

References to mulesing on a drama series called North Shore has upset Wool Producers Australia. 

Two in-depth discussions on the grey area associated with animal welfare legislation and why agri-business is now getting taught in some WA high schools.

One of the stars of the ABC TV show Muster Dogs, Princess Annie, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm this week, aged five. 

Andrew Forrest's private company Wyloo has lodged two applications for mining permits within a nationally significant WA wetland.   

The peak industry body for avocado growers is on a mission to get as many people as possible eating the fruit. 

A farmer who had to kill over half a million of his own chickens, to control an outbreak of bird flu on his properties in northern Victoria, has spoken about the ordeal for the first time. 

Resource analyst Tim Treadgold says a big iron ore expansion plan for the region is a huge vote of confidence for the WA industry. 

Hot on the heels of getting the approval to sell lab-grown meat in Singapore - Australian company Vow now has permission to sell its product here. 

Traditional owners, in a far-flung corner of the Western Australian desert, are concerned the decisions made by a city-based land council could put their country at risk.

High tomato prices are due to supply shortages caused by recent floods in parts of Queensland and the detection of a plant virus in South Australia and Victoria.

The state government has announced it has lost the fight to eradicate the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer.

A significant milestone at the Geraldton Port last night, with the first bulk shipment of grain exported outside of the state's main grain handler, the CBH Group.

The former CEO of the WA Fishing Industry Council says members of the seafood and farming industries need to modernise the way they represent themselves to government by forming one primary producer based interest group. 

The operators of the Boyanup saleyards in Western Australia's south west are being accused of animal cruelty, after an unfit cow was shot at least five times to put it down.  

The latest Grain Industry Association of WA crop report shows the state has the potential to harvest a 20 million tonne crop this season.

A number of WA farmers have raised concerns about the quality of the cropping fertiliser MAP or mono-ammonium phosphate this season.

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is planning on merging her two iron ore operations in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

The former owner of the Port Hedland Export Depot says he wants to appeal the recent Federal Court ruling on the compensation claim for the live export ban to Indonesia in 2011.

Sue McDougall received a Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to horticulture.

One of the veterans of the WA livestock sector says sheep producers, who've decided to stay in the industry, are going to be well rewarded over the next two to three years.

The truffle industry is taking a closer look at the impact synthetic truffle flavouring is having on the market.

A worker on a farm in Western Australia's mid west is so good at taking photos she may turn it into a full time career.

A large iron ore mine that's been approved for the state's Mid West region will create up to a thousand jobs, but locals are worried about their future groundwater supplies.