Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia, talking about the food you eat, how it's produced, and what all this means for the Australian economy.
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Countrywide, 19 November 2016 Audio
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Countrywide looks the big agribusiness news from the week, like Indonesia's desire to build its own cattle herd up, attempts to patent the bovine genome in Australia and the supermarkets' defence of their heavy discounting of dairy products.
Countrywide November 12, 2016 Audio
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Food and agriculture, the policies that affect it.
Countrywide November 5, 2016 Audio
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The backpacker tax is called a shambles by Tasmanian farmers, The ACCC reports that cattle sales lack transparency and launch investigations into cartels, Economist Saul Eslake issues dire warnings of financial damage with Donald Trump as President, Animals feel pleasure and pain and deserve an enriched life with positive experiences, and we meet the social media star of dairy farming.
Countrywide, 29th October 2016 Audio
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On Countrywide there's looming shortages of both potatoes and oysters as weather and disease take their toll. Fish guts to make washing powder? Gina Rinehart surprises the bidders for the Kidman cattle empire by upping her own bid and preparing to ditch Chinese investors. Murray Goulburn chairman to retire after milk price fiasco. An online platform to put you in touch with farmers so you can actually visit one and see how they really operate. A frangipani farm is developing its own, all Australian varieties, and the incredibly beautiful but amazingly expensive pink diamonds that only come from one mine in the world, and it's here in Australia.
Countrywide, 22 October 2016 Audio
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What do farmers make of the Adler gun debate, and an all-Australian bid for the S. Kidman cattle empire challenges the offer from Gina Rinehart.
