Podcasts about liverpool plains

VicNoTill board member Michael Gooden visits Jim Alexander on the Cootamundra farm where he lives with his wife Em and two young daughters to talk about his switch from commercial scale broadacre agronomy on the Liverpool Plains to permaculture to regenerative agriculture. Jim has made a major shift in the way he approaches life, as a result of his own farming experiences and through what he discovered during a Nuffield Scholarship which took him across Australia and to Asia, Europe, Israel, the US, the UK and New Zealand. Being among like-minded people for the past several years as a VicNoTill member has also been an eye-opener for Jim in how leading broadacre farmers are managing to make significant changes to the way they farm, while remaining profitable. He says the farmers helping farmers approach highlights how important it is that people don't follow an ideology at their own expense. VicNoTill members can read more about Jim's experiences and insights in the latest issue of the member magazine ⁠From The Ground Up.⁠

Send me a messageToday's guest is the delightful Jess Miller. Jess has been and remains a totem here in Sydney for many important and successful socially and environmentally impactful campaigns and initiatives - from delivering improved cycling infrastructure in the early 2010s to the Garage Sale Trail to the 202020 Vision or Greener Spaces Better Places program. Add to that a five year side hustle as one of Sydney's youngest ever city councillors, plus mothering and you have the ingredients for someone who is made from audacity and insanity, depending on who you ask and at what stage her visionary process is at.Jess is here is to chat about her upcoming installation at the Vivid Festival in a couple of weeks - A New Normal. This is a fascinating initiative, that has been breaking ground in Melbourne by seemingly taking a product development approach to urban development and planning. Two worlds that are seemingly distinct with very little overlap. As you'll hear in this conversation it's an attempt to transition Sydney to greater self sufficiency, greater environmental stewardship, improving social value outcomes and delivering economic benefits along the way. This work is definitely not for the feint of heart, but just about everything Jess has pursued - from spending her initial year of university in Brazil, to A New Normal - isn't for the usual operator. In many ways A New Normal is the perfect brand for her - outside the usual paradigm of thinking and doing, going from vision to action and doing it with a flare of creativity and spirit of partying along the way.Her energy is infectious and even from just a small amount of time with her she reeled me in with the persuasion, power and potential of what she is doing with A New Normal. She is part humble, part curious, part audacious, part insane. She is going for it though, and what a role model she is at a time when radical and urgent action is a panacea to our challenges but also fears and doubts. I hope you enjoy this one.I'm hosting a very exciting night at Customs House on the 29th of May in Sydney, coincidentally in the middle of the Vivid Festival where the city comes to life in a nightly light show. That night I'm doing my first big house event experience with former NSW Premier and Australian Foreign Minister, plus Friend of The Pod, Bob Carr. On the night we'll be exploring the implications of future climate action when 40% of the world's population is voting in domestic elections in 2024. It's great to be working with a couple of really great operators as part of producing this show.The first is Souling - Natasha Ritz's first book. Add the code findingnature (al one word) at checkout for 10% off the book. The second is Gilay Estate. A phenomenal new off-grid hut on the Liverpool Plains. Add Finding Nature to the description of your booking for a free dinner and breakfast bundle . Production, graphic and social media support comes from the wonderful Rob Rogers. I couldn't do this without his expertise and generous support.Thanks for listening. Follow Finding Nature on Instagram

Regional Australians are disproportionately affected by barriers that impact access to health and mental wellbeing services. On this episode of Better Agriculture, we learn about how Bayer is contributing to sustaining our regional communities. The Bayer Big Fish challenge is tackling mental resilience across regional Australia, while the Red Cross Baby Hub program provides vital education and resources for mothers and babies in the remote indigenous Galiwin'ku community in the Northern Territory. Show notes Our host Ed Gannon is joined by Ben Thompson, the Key Account Manager at Bayer Crop Science, and John Hamparsum, a grain grower from Breeza in the Liverpool Plains of New South Wales. Later in the episode, Ed is joined by Sally Carr, Head of Group Partnerships at the Australian Red Cross. • [02:29] Ben explains how the Bayer Big Fish Challenge came to be. • [04:29] How does the Bayer Big Fish challenge work? • [06:55] What is the Bayer retreat? • [12:10] The changing perception of mental health in rural areas. • [13:33] Sally explains the Red Cross Australia Baby Hub. • [15:34] Isolation, education: What problems does the Baby Hub address? • [17:27] The Baby Hub and Bayer, working together. • [20:04] Success stories from the Galiwin'ku community. Guest details Ben Thompson is the National Key Account Manager at Bayer Crop Science. With 24 years of experience in Sales, Ben manages large accounts that make up to 60% of the total Bayer business portfolio. He specialises in the development of trade campaigns and programs targeted at the agriculture channel. John Hamparsum is a grain grower from Breeza, on the Liverpool Plains in New South Wales. John and his sister run an intensive irrigated enterprise where they produce canola, cotton, sorghum, sunflowers and wheat. John was involved in the inaugural Bayer Big Fish Challenge in 2018, and the Bayer Retreat, and went on to nominate friends in the following years. Sally Carr is the Head of Group Partnerships at Australian Red Cross, responsible for strategic corporate partnerships and philanthropic partnerships. With experience in working within corporate, BCorp and ‘for purpose' organisations, Sally is a leader who helps tens of thousands of people facing challenging times.

Raising the bar on crop nutrition in northern New South Wales is the aim of a new partnership between Outlook Ag and GRDC. Field trials have been established to help combat very area-specific problems and improve yield in a range of crops. In this episode, we speak with three of the lead consultants from Outlook Ag – Mitch Cuell in Narrabri, Greg Giblett on the Liverpool Plains, and Greg Rummery in the Northwest.   Download the transcript for this episode Content: Mitch Cuell Outlook Ag mitch@outlookag.com.au Greg Rummery Outlook Ag  gregr@outlookag.com.au Greg Giblett Outlook Ag  gregg@outlookag.com.au More information: Outlook Ag GRDC Code: OAG2305-001RTX Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sunflower Trail in the Liverpool Plains is back and blooming for another year. JB caught up with Sally Alden to find out where they are this year, how many there are and how long this amazing community collaboration has been going for!

Miss JB For Breakfast during the week?? Catch up here! * JB was on the hunt for the Best School Lunchbox items in Tamworth in our BATTLE of the SCHOOL LUNCHBOXES! * Sally Alden chatted with JB about the stunning sunflowers now on the Sunflower Trail around the Liverpool Plains. Find out how you can view them here! * Unexpected running advice from JB and nostaglia from 2002! It's all here in the Best of JB For Breakfast from during the week only on 92.9!

Fiona Simson has become a household name in Australia, not least because of her role as the first ever female president of the National Farmers Federation, but for passion and grace while serving in the role. Fiona has orchestrated remarkable positive transformations for the Australian agricultural sector. Originally from a property just outside of Armadale in New South Wales, Fiona met her fourth generation husband Ed in Sydney, before settling at Gunnedah. The fertile black soil of the Liverpool Plains is where they raised their two children, Tom and Jemima, and continue to farm alongside Tom and his young family. Fiona's grounded in affable nature positions her seamlessly as an industry leader, allowing young women around the country to envision a viable career in rural Australia and the agricultural realm.

We wrap up our special series on the Liverpool Plains. Jason Allan is a Traditional Owner and CEO of the Walhallow Local Aboriginal Land Council. He's also an elected Shire councillor. Jason talks about this special country, its ancient heritage and continuing importance. It's a powerful and crucial perspective, especially in the context of debate around an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. https://au.linkedin.com/in/jason-allan-57132664 https://www.instagram.com/liverpoolplainsag/ Follow Dirty Linen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dirtylinenpodcast Follow Dani Valent https://www.instagram.com/danivalent Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Follow Huck (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it's owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.  Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

We continue our Fighting for the Liverpool Plains series in this discussion with sourdough baker Renee Neale. Renee runs Reverence Sourdough in Gunnedah: it's bread made with time and love. She also has a close association with Wholegrain Milling and can speak with passion and authority about the importance of Liverpool Plains grain to the Australian baking community. https://www.reverencesourdough.com.au Follow Dirty Linen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dirtylinenpodcast Follow Dani Valent https://www.instagram.com/danivalent Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Follow Huck (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it's owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.  Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

We're back in the Liverpool Plains to discuss the perils of coal seam gas mining in Australia's food bowl. Today's guest is Pip Murray, a farmer and writer from Gunnedah. She's deeply connected to her community in the Liverpool Plains, considered one of the most fertile agricultural areas in the world and - as Pip explains - one of the most beautiful too. An advocate for the environment, wildlife and long-term thinking, Pip is fiercely opposed to risky mining in her region. https://www.instagram.com/liverpoolplainsag/ Follow Dirty Linen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dirtylinenpodcast Follow Dani Valent https://www.instagram.com/danivalent Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Follow Huck (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it's owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.  Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

We continue our Fighting for the Liverpool Plains series in this discussion with fourth-generation farmer Scott McCalman. Noone has more reverence and deep knowledge about the black soil of this extraordinary growing region - how it came to be there, why it's so precious, and how best to look after it for the benefit of farmers, eaters and the climate. Educated and forward-looking, Scott is using and caring for the land with an eye on the future. He's furious with those motivated by short term gains. Just about everything we do at Dirty Linen and across the whole Deep in the Weeds food podcast network rests on farming. Without productive farmers we don't have restaurants, we don't have those resonant, connected stories of cuisine and culture that we love so much - and that we know you appreciate too. And fundamentally, without farmers, we don't eat. It's basic. We also know that we need to cease coal and gas mining because of the emissions they create. The science is unequivocal. The catastrophic climate risks are too great. The move to net zero makes allowances for legacy mining but it's clear that any new coal or gas extraction tips into dangerous territory. Given all this, we are keeping a close eye on the Liverpool Plains, and the gas mining exploration licences held by energy giant Santos. Join us all week as we talk to people in the region who are likely to be impacted by any mining activities and are mobilising against them. What becomes clear in these conversations is that this is a local fight with broader implications. If you eat, if you live on Earth, this fight matters.  By the way, we've reached out to Santos for comment. We look forward to a response. https://www.instagram.com/liverpoolplainsag/ Follow Dirty Linen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dirtylinenpodcast Follow Dani Valent https://www.instagram.com/danivalent Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Follow Huck (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it's owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.  Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

Just about everything we do at Dirty Linen and across the whole Deep in the Weeds food podcast network rests on farming. Without productive farmers we don't have restaurants, we don't have those resonant, connected stories of cuisine and culture that we love so much - and that we know you appreciate too. And fundamentally, without farmers, we don't eat. It's basic. We also know that we need to cease coal and gas mining because of the emissions they create. The science is unequivocal. The catastrophic climate risks are too great. The move to net zero makes allowances for legacy mining but it's clear that any new coal or gas extraction tips into dangerous territory. Given all this, we are keeping a close eye on the Liverpool Plains, and the gas mining exploration licences held by energy giant Santos. Join us all week as we talk to people in the region who are likely to be impacted by any mining activities and are mobilising against them. What becomes clear in these conversations is that this is a local fight with broader implications. If you eat, if you live on Earth, this fight matters.    By the way, we've reached out to Santos for comment. We look forward to a response. Our first guest is Kate Gunn, generational farmer and Chair of Liverpool Plains Action Group. Kate gives us an overview of the region as a food bowl and series of connected communities. She talks about what's at stake and why she's throwing herself into activism. https://www.facebook.com/liverpoolplainsag/ Follow Dirty Linen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dirtylinenpodcast Follow Dani Valent https://www.instagram.com/danivalent Follow Rob Locke (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/foodwinedine/ Follow Huck (Executive Producer) https://www.instagram.com/huckstergram/ LISTEN TO OUR OTHER FOOD PODCASTS https://linktr.ee/DeepintheWeedsNetwork Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it's owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.  Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

Miss JB For Breakfast this morning? JB caught up with Eleanor from The Plains all about the terrific events going on throughout the Liverpool Plains this Autumn. Get out the calendar and have a listen to this and mark off your days so you don't double book...!!

The rich farmlands of NSW's Liverpool Plains have long been coveted by fossil fuel companies – BHP and Chinese state-owned Shenhua have both tried and walked away. Now locals are preparing to fight Australian gas giant Santos, which holds the licences for what lies beneath. The rural and regional editor, Gabrielle Chan, tells Jane Lee about the new generation of farmers taking on Santos, alongside traditional owners and teal independent MPs

THIRD GENERATION Liverpool Plains farmer Rosemary Nankivell has been active for more than a decade trying to save the top NSW food bowl, the Liverpool Plains, and the surrounding Pilliga nature reserve and State Forest, from coal and coal seam gas mining. The campaign united farmers, environmentalists and the Gomeroi people to successfully stop proposed […]Author informationMargo KingstonCo-publisher and editor-in-chief at No FibsMargo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams' ‘Canberra Babylon' contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs. | Twitter |

Matt Anderson's (L: @matthew-anderson) passion for agriculture stems from growing up on the family property in the Liverpool Plains. Having left home to finish a Bachelor of Laws, the call of his real passions proved too great. In starting his career with Farmers2Founders, Matt is utilising his commercial skills and agricultural knowledge to develop innovative agrifood tech projects for industry benefit. He works with a diverse pool of people in the ecosystem to encourage adoption of new technologies and innovations that he knows will create an impact across the sector. Don't forget to send us an email if you know of a story that we should tell at hello@generationag.com.au *Become a Patreon Partner* - https://patreon.com/generationag Find us here: Instagram: @generation.ag Twitter: @generation_ag Website: www.generationag.com.au

The book by Oreskes and Conway illustrates that it is an ideology, not facts that matter. "Wild week of extreme weather ahead in the Lower 48: 5 things to know"; "France, Italy, Belgium: The European regions most at risk from floods and sea level rise"; "Why Tasmania and Victoria dominate the list of Australia's largest trees – and why these majestic giants are under threat"; "Warming winters put Indigenous moose hunting traditions in jeopardy"; "‘A bloody accident': Farmer apologises for inadvertently sparking Flowerdale fire"; "The Australian animals back from the brink of extinction"; "Teal independents join farmers in Liverpool Plains to oppose Santos gas development"; "Extreme droughts change how forests behave"; "Narwhals' Hungry Summers As Climate Warms". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

UN Secretary General, António Guterres, says we must act this decade. Richard Heinberg gives us a bonus episode of his power podcast: "How to Navigate Power with Wisdom"; "McGowan Government commits to legislating net zero by 2050 and introducing five-year interim targets"; "Liverpool Plains farmers oppose seismic testing and Hunter Gas Pipeline"; "Doomsday Clock at record 90 seconds to midnight amid Ukraine crisis"; "Fossil fuels fall to record low in power grid as renewables hit new high"; "A small modular nuclear reactor just got US approval — a big milestone"; "New energy trial enables people to power their homes from their electric vehicle"; "Understanding Healthy Soil and Climate Change"; "UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth's Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing'"; "Norway plans to offer record number of Arctic oil, gas exploration blocks"; "Solar energy could be key in Puerto Rico's transition to 100% renewables, study says". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Miss JB For Breakfast? JB caught up with Layna about the exciting Liverpool Plains sunflower trail which is back this year! Check out all the details here! Plus, JB caught up with Freddie Bailey who will be performing at our Discovered concert tomorrow from 10am at Centrepoint Tamworth. All that and more in this edition of the JB For Breakfast Catch Up!

Miss JB For Breakfast? Catch up here! JB caught up with Sam Ereckson from Tamworth Regional Council about the council's new draft entrance strategy.. find out all the details here! JB also caught up with Clare about some exciting plans for the Windy Woolshed in the Liverpool Plains... plus the end of, what was meant to be, a fabulous radio game! All the details here!

The Sunflower Trail has been hugely popular around the Liverpool Plains over the last few summers. JB caught up with Georgina from The Plains about the upcoming Sunflower Trail for 2023, plus an exciting networking evening and Summer Calendar launch this evening.

Welcome back to another episode of Beyond the Green Line. Today, our host, Shonelle Gleeson-Willey, talks with Susan Lyle, a retired farmer on the Liverpool planes. Susan is a community leader in the Liverpool Planes Action Group and has spent 16 years opposing coal mines on some of the most precious lands of Australia.We hear about Susan's fight against the eventually unsuccessful exploration licenses of BHP and Shenhua Watermark and a bit about what is next for the Liverpool Planes Action Group (formerly known as the Caroona Coal Action Group).Susan spent much of her life farming the Liverpool planes of Northwest NSW, which host highly fertile, self-mulching black soils.In 2006, BHP acquired a license to mine coal beneath the planes, which would have destroyed groundwater and compromised the fertile land.Susan immediately began partnering with indigenous Gomeroi people in their opposition to the mines, as many sacred sites exist in the area.They organized a year-long human blockade to prevent BHP's attempts to move through the area, and media outlets picked up on the story, giving BHP some very effective negative attention.BHP's final decision to cancel their plans for the mine was motivated by finally realizing how difficult the location would be. Subsidence and water filling the mines would have posed significant challenges. The government offered to repurchase the license, citing risks to the region's agricultural future and underground aquifers. Even when the license was granted, it included an assessment that listed threatened species and water resource impact, which effectively made it impossible for them to carry out a profitable business. Then, the mine proposal went to the NSW Mining and Petroleum Gateway Panel and failed their evaluation.So, why did it take about eight more years to get shut down after that? Susan shares that the almighty dollar influenced this and that the public attention her action group garnered helped turn the tide.She also asserts that the departments of water, agriculture, and others should communicate before any permissions are granted and exercise more rigorous pre-planning.Another entity, the Shenhua Watermark Mine, was granted an exploration license in 2008 on the Liverpool planes.The Caroona Coal Action group went to bat against this as well, working very closely with the Gomeroi people and other action groups, and won once more - exposing a lack of transparency and flawed reporting on studies on Shenhua's part and a second government buy-back occurred in 2017.We can learn several important lessons from Susan and the action group's determination. She reminds us to concentrate on the issues that will make the most convincing arguments. She also emphasizes the importance of independent information and remembering the significance of the cause whenever things get tiring.We will also hear about the Liverpool Planes Action Group's newest fight, in which Susan says: “Good luck, government.”

Future NSW gas plan reduces possible exploration but Liverpool Plains farmers are angry

A huge portfolio of land in northern New South Wales owned by the Chinese company is up for sale, as the mining giants cuts ties with the region and its failed plan to mine for coal on the fertile Liverpool Plains.

Luke Grant checks in with Xavier Martin, NSW Farmers vice-president & grain grower from Mullaley on the Liverpool Plains, for an update on the mouse plague ravaging rural NSW and beyond.  It is estimated the mouse plague has cost NSW grain growers more than $1 billion in damage to winter crops, prompting the State Government last week to announce a new $100 million support package for landowners.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Sydney's suburban fringes, Koalas are having a resurgence - and this is great news. But it is happening right where the slow crawl of urban development is encroaching on their habitat. Meanwhile on the Liverpool Plains, a farmer collaborates with a researcher to break a few truisms about Koalas - and help the species to survive extreme weather events in the process. We look at the cutting edge Koala research that could make a difference to conservation futures, knowing that Koala numbers in NSW have been declining rapidly, with disease and habitat loss being the contributors. We also touch on the Koala Strategy, which is an initiative of the NSW government that aims to stabilise and then increase koala numbers. This is to be done through a range of actions such as creating reserves, decreasing koala roadkill events, increasing wildlife carer and veterinary training and funding research. We hear from: Valentina Mella, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney Robert Frend, NSW Liverpool Plains farmer and citizen researcher Morgan Philpott, Hawkesbury WIRES koala rehabilitator See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barilaro signs agreement for Shenhua to give up rights to coal mining on the Liverpool Plains

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In 2015 Fiona Simson became the first female president of the Australia's peak farmer group. Fiona hails from a farming operation near Gunnedah on NSW's Liverpool Plains, running a farming enterprise with her husband Ed and family including broad acre farming as well as breeding commercial poll Hereford cattle. 2019 was not an easy year for farmers is that part of the world, in fact probably one of the toughest ever seen. However, Fiona is adamant that she doesn't not want agriculture in Australia to be defined by these tough times and I quote from a recent National Press conference presentation ‘Many farmers, including me, take offence, to the portrayals of the ‘broken down', ‘hand-out-dependent' farmer profile peddled by many members of the media. And she went on to say ‘Ag is not only an industry with a special place in our past, but also an exciting place in our future. In line with this, it's not surprising that the NFF has embarked on two ambitious settings for Australian agriculture 1. The value for farm gate output to be valued at $100 billion by 2030. Currently around $70bn 2. That Australian Agriculture reaches Carbon Neutrality by 2050. Add to this Murray Darlings Basin, Covid and China current trade settings, just to name a few this job is not without it challenges With these in mind I look forward to chatting to Fiona today about leadership, vision and making a difference.

22 July 2020 Acknowledgement & Hellos As mentioned in the opening discussion, the Tomorrow movement, a group of young people fighting for a society with good jobs, great public services and a safe climate for all, will be hosting a welcome tonight at 5:30. You can register here. [0:10:00] Alternative News [0:22:00] City limits highlight - we jump in to a conversation from city limits last week where hosts Kevin and Meg are joined by memebers of the community group Friends of Public Housing to discuss incredible work of the community of public housing tenants and the ongoing political issues that they are facing. Meg and Kevin talk to Howard and  Dr Sam Lieblich, a Psychiatrist working with public housing tenants about life under lockdown and the past few weeks. [0:39:00] Tram Thoughts - A conversation around poetry and what makes it such a unique prose/ media form. Special thanks to the Penny Mint for the their collective poem 'These Times are Strange' which you can find the video for here.  [1:02:00]  Discussion around a fundraiser to raise awareness of current mining proposals for the Santos Narrabri Gas Project in the Pilliga and Shenhua Watermark Mine Project in the Liverpool Plains will cause irreversible damage to Country if they are approved. Fundraiser can be found here [1:08:00] Interview with Sue from the Friends of Kinglake Forest who were recently successful in achieving an interlocutory injunction which restricts VicForests' operations over the entire Central Highlands forest area. On the show Sue gives us the lastest updates and what this could mean for cases seeking to protect our beautiful forests.  Songs A Message to You Rudy - The Specials Europe Is Lost - Kate Tempest Hymn - IDLES 

Today we welcome Laura Smith to the igrain team, Laura is our Account Manager for Central West NSW, looking after growers from Forbes, to Coonamble and across to the Liverpool Plains.  Today Laura chats to Andrew Kelso about recent shifts in global wheat prices, buying activity, northern hemisphere harvest progress and what growers should be looking at to capitalise on market movements and new crop prices over the coming months.   

In today's very special International Women's Day bonus episode, we were lucky enough to sit down with National Farmer's Federation President, Fiona Simson. Fiona is based on the Liverpool Plains where she, her husband Ed and family run a mixed farming enterprise including broad acre farming as well as breeding commercial poll Hereford cattle. Fiona is the first female President of the NFF in its 41 year history. She has previously served the NFF as Vice President for two years and as a Director since 2011. Fiona was also the first female President of NSW Farmers, retaining that position for a full four year term from 2011 to 2015. Don't forget to send us an email if you know of a story that we should tell at hello@generationag.com.au *Become a Patreon Partner* - https://patreon.com/generationag Find us here: Instagram: @generation.ag Twitter: @generation_ag Website: www.generationag.com.au

William Kent wrote:   "A garden is to be a world unto itself,  it had better make room  for the darker shades of feeling  as well as the sunny ones.”   I’ve usually think about my garden as my happy place.   It’s a natural mood changer for me.   But I remember one time when I was out in the garden with feelings of a definite darker shade.   I was very pregnant with John and I was wearing a hideous, striped, maternity tank top.   It was super hot out and I looked like an absolute mess.   I wasn’t out there long before I realized my new neighbor kept trying to catch my attention; I didn’t want to meet him looking such a fright.      I kept my eyes down on my plants.  But, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed he kept coming out of his house to stand on his deck - expecting me to acknowledge him.   Finally, an older man joined him and, together, they approached the back fence.   I walked over to say hello.   Here it was my old principal from middle school and his son-in-law; my new neighbor.   So much for my garden being a world unto itself.   Brevities #OTD On This Day in 1823, botanist Allan Cunningham departs Bathurst to find an easier route to the Liverpool Plains. Born in Wimbledon, England, Cunningham came to Australia with tuberculosis and happily discovered Australia's climate helped him feel better.   #OTD It’s the birthday of George Harrison Shull who was born on this day in 1874. An American botanist, he is regarded as the "father of hybrid corn."   #OTD, It’s the birthday of Francis Hallé born today in 1938.  He is a French botanist and biologist and his specialty is tropical rainforests and tree architecture.  Atlas Obscura wrote an article about Halle called, "The Botanist Who Made Fantastical Sketches of Rain Forest Flora”. It’s true.  Halle’s work in his book, “The Atlas of Poetic Botany” is other worldly - possessing an almost Seussical charm.  Of equatorial forests, Halle says they are full of magical allure and little marvels.   Check out this passage from the Atlas Obscura piece,   "On Robinson Crusoe Island, part of an archipelago off the coast of Chile, he found Gunnera peltata, which looks like a rhubarb plant so enormous that it dwarfs whoever stands below its wide, veined leaves. Analyzing it was a thrilling challenge. “Normally, a scalpel is used for dissecting plants,” Hallé writes. “This time, I had to wield a meat cleaver!” A photo would convey the size and the “nest of ruby-red fibers,” but the author eschews snapshots. “I cannot think of a better way to present it than with a drawing.” #OTD It’s the death day of Alexander Garden, of Charleston, South Carolina, who was a steady and delightful writer of letters to  other eminent botanists of his day. The Gardenia flower is named for him.    His letters provide a glimpse into his life; one of which is to John Bartram, the botanist:   "Think that I am here, confined to the sandy streets of Charleston, where the ox, where the ass, and where man, as stupid as either, fill up the vacant space, while you range the green fields of Florida.”   Here’s a letter he wrote to John Ellis :   "I know that every letter which I receive not only revives the little botanic spark in my breast, but even increases its quantity and flaming force."   When the Revolutionary War began, Garden sided with the British, even though he sympathized with the colonists.  When the war was over, his property was confiscated and he had to leave South Carolina. After losing everything, he and his family went to live in London where he became vice-president of the Royal Society.  He died of tuberculosis, at age 61, on this day in 1791.   There’s a sad little aside to the Alexander Garden biography: "He had a little granddaughter, named appropriately ‘Gardenia.' Her father, Alexander, Garden's only son, joined Lee's legion against the British (so going against his father) and was never forgiven ; nor was the little girl, his granddaughter with the flower name, ever received into her Grandfather’s house.   Unearthed Words Here’s a little known poem for today about springtime called “Nothing Perfect on Earth" by Francis Quarles   Even as the soil (which April's gentle showers  Have filled with sweetness and enriched with flowers)  Rears up her sucking plants, still shooting forth  The tender blossoms of her timely birth ;  But if denied the beams of cheerly May,  They hang their withered heads, and fade away. Today's book recommendation  The Atlas of Poetic Botany by Francis Hallé   This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic―poetic―plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic laurel; and a dancing vine.   Further explorations reveal the Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest flower in the world, with a crown of stamens and pistils the color of rotten meat that exude the stench of garbage in the summer sun; underground trees with leaves that form a carpet on the ground above them; and the biggest tree in Africa, which can reach seventy meters (more than 200 feet) in height, with a four-meter (about 13 feet) diameter. Hallé's drawings, many in color, provide a witty accompaniment.   Like any good tour guide, Hallé tells stories to illustrate his facts. Readers learn about, among other things, Queen Victoria's rubber tree; legends of the moabi tree (for example, that powder from the bark confers invisibility); a flower that absorbs energy from a tree; plants that imitate other plants; a tree that rains; and a fern that clones itself.   Hallé's drawings represent an investment in time that returns a dividend of wonder more satisfying than the ephemeral thrill afforded by the photograph. The Atlas of Poetic Botany allows us to be amazed by forms of life that seem as strange as visitors from another planet.   Today's Garden Chore I can’t let tax day pass us by without suggesting you get with your significant other and negotiate your budget for the garden this season.  Pick a number and try to stick to it; Base your number on reality so you get honest about what you spend on the garden.  It can’t be good karma to bring shame about overspending on plants into the garden.   Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart #OTD Here’s a fascinating post from the Hartford, Courant newspaper published on this day in 1977: Headline: Doctor Used Moss To Bandage Wounds Sphagnum moss, used by florists to keep seedlings and stems moist, was used during the Revolutionary War to bandage wounds; and as recently as World I.   Acidulous preservative water runs from the moss when squeezed and, no matter how often it is squeezed - it never becomes dry.  Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

A five-year survey of the entire Australian cropping belt has revealed a sobering picture of growing herbicide resistance in key cropping weeds. Dr John Broster from the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation heads up a joint herbicide resistance monitoring project between Charles Sturt University, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Universities of Adelaide and Western Australia. In a 5-year cycle the group visited 3000 randomly selected paddocks and took 2000 samples of the nation's number one weed, ryegrass, which is followed by wild radish in WA, wild oats in Queensland and NSW, and sow thistle in fourth place. The survey revealed that nationally, about 75 per cent of the populations of ryegrass are resistant to Group A ‘fop' herbicides, ranging from 99 per cent in WA and 90 per cent in southern NSW around Wagga to much lower levels in western NSW where cropping intensity is a bit lower, and in northern NSW where cropping systems are different. In the last five-year survey, the level of resistance in ryegrass around Wagga was 70-75 per cent, but John says the numbers can vary as the survey monitors different paddocks. But the most concerning discovery was the increasing resistance to the most important herbicide, glyphosate. Across Australia glyphosate resistance is 5 per cent in the populations of ryegrass, but in a region like the Liverpool Plains in NSW it was in 29 per cent of the populations that were surveyed. John says if growers lose glyphosate, they'll have to use more complex, more expensive methods of controlling weeds. He says the key to remember is that if you use herbicides, you will get resistance. By using other methods to control plants that survive herbicide applications and prevent them from setting seed, then growers will slow – maybe not stop, but slow – the development of resistance to enable the use of herbicides for longer. Paddocks are selected at random for the survey to provide an indication of what herbicides are still working and where, and what are at risk in the future. John says farmers generally are responsible in their management of weeds. Even though there are high levels of resistance in the ryegrass to selective herbicide groups, and even glyphosate, at harvest time when researchers collect the weed seeds, most populations are below one plant per square metre. So even though it's more complicated, he says they're managing populations quite well using alternative herbicides and other methods than herbicides to control the weed populations. Further information Dr John Broster Herbicide Resistance Screening Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga, NSW 02 6933 4001 or 0427 296 641 jbroster@csu.edu.au https://grdc.com.au/resources-and-publications/grdc-update-papers/tab-content/grdc-update-papers/2018/03/a-survey-of-herbicide-resistance-in-key-weeds-across-the-northern-grains-region

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A call for clean energy jobs in NSW after the defeat of the BHP Billion Caroona Coal Plan for Liverpool Plains, then we go to a dispute that is brewing down by the Yarra at Crown Casino and then to a dispute resolved successful for the Victorian Allied Health Professionals. finally We go to the back streets of Abbotsford Melbourne for a large rally supporting the sacked CUB workers

We talked about the new Alliance formed at the Liverpool Plains between antimining groups like FLAC and 350.org, the local farming community and the traditional custodians, the Gomoroi people to resist the construction of a new dirty and inhumaine coal mine named Shenhua, check out the actions on www.landwaterfuture.org.au. We followed by the impact of Direct Action in protests with Nicola and CounterAct. Direct Actions have been used for now a long time in australia, it's time to skilled up to make every protest as efficient as possible, for help with your next direct action look at counteract.org.au. see you next week!

Retired Independent MP Tony Windsor, NSW Farmers mining spokesman Tim Duddy and farmers from the Liverpool Plains. They came to Lane Cove to mobilise support and they want to prevent Shenhua's Watermark coal mine spoiling their aquifers, and Aboriginal sacred sites. ‪#‎WrongMineWrongPlace‬People are very upset about the defeat at Maules Creek. Half the forest has been bulldozed now and Whitehaven is already producing coal from an open cut mine. Now citizens are putting all their campaigning energy into defending the Liverpool Plains farmland against Shenhua Chinese state owned coal company. 

Front Line Action on Coal’s Leard Blockade is the first coal mine blockade camp in Australia. And the longest. Starting in August 2012, over 3 years, hundreds of people made history by visiting the the Blockade campsite and participated in a variety of activities to show opposition to the destructive Whitehaven coal mine.This week, Dirt Radio looks back on the Blockade and Front Line Action on Coal's critical role in mobilizing and sustaining the campaign. Then we look forward to the next big grassroots coal battle - the mega-Shenwua mine project in NSW. The plan is to construct an open cut mine to extract 10 million tonnes of coal a year from the slopes adjoining the Liverpool Plains, an area known for its fertile and highly valuable black agricultural soils.