Western Australia Country Hour
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Hosted by Belinda Varischetti, the WA Country Hour - the country's finest hour
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Country Hour for Tuesday 11 November, 2015 | Australian wheat prices have tumbled by as much as $15 a tonne recently in reaction to a slew of new market information WA perspective on the grain harvest The Bureau of Meteorology says unfortunately the big dumps of rain in the past week don't mean El | 10 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Tuesday 10 November, 2015 | Over the last three months tens of thousands of sheep have been transported to the eastern wheatbelt Indonesia is already one of Australia's most important agricultural markets, and the national commodity forecaster expects demand for high quality food t | 9 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country hour for Monday 9 November, 2015 | There's a big conference on in Darwin this week, aimed at matching up international investors with major projects across northern Australia The National Farmers' Federation says there've been no surprises so far, as they've combed through the detail of t | 8 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Friday 06 November, 2015 | Gascoyne Economic Forum examines issues concerning pastoralists, Federal Government pledges weed and wild dog funding for Gascoyne, Hong Kong trade deal to boost WA exports. | 5 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Thursday 05 November, 2015 | Gascoyne Regional Investment Blueprint launched, WA cattle producers urged to make submissions to bovine Johne's review | 4 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Wednesday 04 November, 2015 | Tough year for livestock in the Great Southern, bush food supply cannot meet demand, Landgate gets a satellite to pinpoint fires. | 3 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Tuesday 03 November, 2015 | Rain has not yet affect WA grain quality, dry October means sweeter stone fruit, meeting an Indigenous ranger team. | 2 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Monday 02 November, 2015. | Implications of GST on fresh food, lessons from the Scottish fishing industry, first deliveries to Arthur River grain storage. | 1 11 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Friday 30 October, 2015 | A new framework for co-existence has just been created in an attempt to allow normal agricultural activity to continue in areas that are being explored for oil and gas A Memorandum of Understanding has been created between fishermen and oil and gas compa | 29 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Thursday 29 October | The state's main grain handler the CBH Group says it needs to slash $25 million off its balance sheet over the next two years in order to remain viable, sustainable and competitive into the future The outgoing chairman of WA Meat Marketing Cooperative Li | 28 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Wednesday 28 October, 2015 | Western Australia did very well at last night's Australian Seafood Industry awards ceremony An Australian breeding program is on track to have oysters that can withstand a deadly virus within three years In the far north of WA, locals at the Kalumburu M | 28 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Tuesday 27 October, 2015 | The state's main grain handler the CBH Group says two hail events within a week of each other and a dry September have taken about half a million tonnes off the co-operatives harvest forecast for this season Farmers are optimistic about their future, and | 27 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Friday 23 October 2015 | -West Australian grain growers will have to wait until the end of the year to find out how a new rust pathotype will effect the state's most commonly grown wheat variety. -A drought in the state's south west has left irrigators with heavily reduced water | 22 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Thursday 22 October 2015 | -Gold miner Newmont will spend five hundred million dollars to expand the South Pit at its Boddington mine site. -The nation's only continuously running high level waste facility is set to be built in the Goldfields. -Food fraud is one of the most alarm | 21 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Wednesday 21 October 2015 | - In the fifth part of the series of national Country Hour broadcasts marking ABC Rurals 70th anniversary the Country Hour heads to South East Tasmania and the home of Australian Farmer of the Year, Matt Dunbabin. It will explore the thinking behind ente | 20 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Tuesday 20 October 2015 | - It's been a tough few days for WA's grain growers... today we head further north where farmers are now discovering areas of frost damage in their crops. -Further south to the Albany Port Zone where the harvest has officially started and the first of th | 19 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Monday 19 October, 2015 | Insurance brokers and crop assessors will be busy this week after a hail storm hit parts of the Great Southern over the weekend, devastating crops just before harvest Australian gold companies are riding the crest of the golden wave A Western Australian | 18 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Friday 16 October, 2015 | It's an understatement to say the mango season in the north is unusual this year with growers reporting a sudden lack of any ripe fruit A Western Australian corn producer is hoping to break into the high end Malaysian food market A tantalite mine in W-A | 15 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Thursday15 October, 2015 | A Kimberley pastoralist has spoken about the horror of his cattle burning to death in a devastating bushfire The Australian Livestock Exporters Council says investigations are still on going into reports sheep were found outside approved supply chains in | 15 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Wednesday 14 October 2015 | -Labor leader Mark McGowan has hinted at changes to the party's position on the future of genetically modified crops in Western Australia. -Animals Australia says it will maintain its goal of banning live export... but concedes it’s given up trying to | 14 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Tuesday 13 October 2015 | -Tonight the ABC's 7:30 will be looking at claims that surfaced some weeks ago... that hundreds of sheep from Australia were found outside approved supply chains in Oman, in the Middle East. -The newly appointed RSPCA chairman, Gary Humphries says he w | 12 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Monday 12 October, 2015 | Members of the Pastoralists and Graziers Association are worried about the planned abolition of the Pastoral Lands Board Strong demand and a weakening Australian dollar will see cattle prices remain high in the coming months They're not as high profile | 12 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Friday 9 October 2015 | -Australia's largest private land holder S. Kidman and Co says it's on track to be announcing its successful buyer next month. -Nickel mining in WA has been in strife for the last four years or more. -It's pretty hard to find West Australian grown garli | 9 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Country Hour for Thursday 8 October 2015 | -Monsanto, the multinational chemical and biotech company, has announced a global restructure and major cost cutting. -Harvest should be a couple of weeks off for most in the Great Southern region but a farmer in Gardiner, 160 km east of Albany, has alre | 8 10 2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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