Show Notes
Farmers in the Riverland and Mallee are concerned that the state primary industries department has excluded them from locust surveillance and aerial spraying, a new wheat variety developed to withstand heat and frost landed on the market yesterday to support growers to handle increasingly unpredictable weather events and South Australia's Dr Karleah Berris has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship, which she'll use to study how farmers in other countries are leading wildlife conservation on agricultural land.
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