Rural Focus

Today Oz had a chat with Steve Thomas, Member for the South West about the state budget and how it will affect the growing regions.  Danielle, from DMFD about the upcoming Dowerin Machinery Field Day. and Ken Young about Dual-Resistant Ryegrass. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harry Carol is back to take us through the market report from Mt Barker. Jeremy Stewart shares some great land available in the Albany region that Merrifield Real Estate has on offer. And Brett Johnson shares a brand new crop protection product, Farm Shield. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lots of good information in the show today, Tom Mayfield from ADM Grain joined Leah to give us the global grain market update. Plus Tom Shaw shared some great tips from the Nutrien agronomy team, and it's that time of year again CBH are back to remind us to log in Paddock Planner. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Walker from Nutrien gives us the latest market report out of Muchea, and things are looking good. Plus we get the details for the upcoming Women In Farming seminar and we have the headlines from this weeks edition of Farm Weekly.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the show today Renata Paliskis from Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management joined Leah to talk through an amazing webinar that might help you sift through the confusing data that's out there and build a water management plan that actually applied to the Wheatbelt regions. Plus James Lydon from Bayer takes us through some great tips for herbicides at the moment and Tiff from the Livestock Collect...

Lawson Grains have developed a new 3 step plan to look after their female farm based employees, to find out more and to discover why they are members of the RRR Network we spoke with Robyn Heap from Lawson Grains. Plus we got a insight into some exciting things underway at Burando Hill With Stew McKenzie, and Roger Hitchcock joined Leah to share some important reminders around men's mental health....

Harry Carol from Nutrien brings us the market report from Mt Barker, plus Matilda Lloyd from Bailiwick Legal shares the ins and outs of neighbourhood agreements around renewable projects. Plus Peter Rundle your member for Roe shares what is front of mind for him and the Nationals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bill Crabtree from 4Farmers joined Leah on Rural Focus and gave some great tips around a nitrogen strategy, how finding the right balance is so important. Plus we got an update from Andrew Duperouzel at Nutrien and editor Cally Dupe from the Countryman joins us with the headlines. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Walker from Nutrien is back with the sheep market report from Muchea. Plus we have a chat with Luke Dawson from GRDC about some of their projects and Darren O'dea, editor of Farm Weekly takes us through this weeks edition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get some insights on what the ATO is looking out for this year with finance expert Mark Waller, plus we talk to one of the recipients of the FRRR community grants, Northcliffe Family Centre. Plus Stephen Brown from SafeFarms WA is back to give us the good and bad news with farm and workplace safety. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show we spoke with Farm Weekly Journalist Brooke Littlewood after her recent trip to Morocco, taking us through some of our similarities and differences in farming practices. Plus Paul Nenke From Milne Feeds takes us through the importance of having enough protein in your feed as lambs are dropping, and Facey Group CEO Tina Astbury shares some great events happening near Wickepin. See o...

On the show today we got the latest fixtures for Nutrien Ag Solutions Country Football Championships. Plus Harry Carol gives us the run down from yesterday Mt Barker sale yard. Finally Andrew Harris, agronomist at Elders shares some tips for the Narrogin region. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On todays show we talk to WA Agricultural Research Collaboration’s (WAARC) inaugural Cropping Enabled Cattle project which looks at how irrigated crop supplements, including cotton seed could impact cattle growth, health and welfare, performance, time to market and meat quality. We also got some great advice on how our capacity can help us weather life's storms, and we got all the headlines...

On the show this morning we got up to date on this years Truffle season and it's set to be a good one, plus Craig Walker from Nutrien gave us the latest from the sheep market and it's starting to look good.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show we caught up with Harry Carol from Nutrien to get the livestock report from Mt Barker. Plus Sarah Searle and Tom Stoneley from All Water Resources share why keeping it a family business was so important during their rebrand. Finally we have Kelli Small a member of the RRR Network to chat about why being a business member is vital to her company Source Business Partners in Broome. S...

RaboResearch senior dairy analyst Michael Harvey joined Leah on Rural Focus this morning to talk about the  2025/26 Australian Dairy Market Outlook . Plus we got some insight into what's offered at Nutrien Ag Finance with Aidan Quinn, and Melissa from The Countryman shares the headlines from this weeks edition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leah is back on the show today and so are some of our favourite regular guest. Craig Walker from Nutrien give us the latest market report out of Muchea, plus some bonus insights around sheep, nutrition and what to expect for the market. Plus we have some really interesting tidbits from Farm Weekly with editor Darren O'Dea, and Mel Parnell from CLAAS Harvest Centre shares some excellent products yo...

Today of Rural Focus Oz had a chat with Andrew from the CSIRO about GRDC's latest updates on the Establishing Canola Project, He also had a chat with Craig from Elders about what farmers can do to control early weed growth in their crops, and wrapped up the show talking to the newest committee member of AgVocate, Oli Ayers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the Rural Focus Podcast Oz had a chat with Stew Mac from Burando Hill about grain handling this season, He also had a chat with Bill Crabtree from 4Farmers about moisture retention. rounding out the show with a chat about Stock Feeds with Paul Nenke from Milne Feeds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oz had a chat with Warren Holt and Harry Carrol from Nutrien about the Wool and Cattle markets respectively.  As well as a chat with Michael from Regional Men's Health! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the podcast Oz is joined by: Jane Kowald from Women in Farming about what's happening around the branches of Woman in Farming. Cally Dupe, the editor of The Countrymen about today's issue covering the Coalition Split and the lovely features of the paper. And Sophie Wooldridge from AgVocateWA about their Annual Forum Conference in Perth on Friday See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Today on the podcast Oz had a chat with; Craig Walker from Nutrien about the Sheep Prices this week Darren from Farm Weekly about Firearms, Mobile Coverage, and a Man raising funds by cycling with his hands. The Shire President of WA's most remote Shire about the happenings in our outback. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we had a chat with Renata the CEO of the Wheatbelt NRM and what's going on in the region, Shane Love the Member for the Midwest and leader of the WA Nationals about the start to a new Parliamentary Cycle, and James Lyndon an Agronomist from Bayer about the shaky start to seeding and how Bayer can help. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first crack at a new gig can always be exciting, and maybe a bit  stressful! While Leah is taking a well-deserved break, Oz is joined by Rebecca from Balliwick Legal to discuss changing privacy laws, Shane from Nutrien to talk Fertilizer, and Ian from Rural Aid to discuss the sowing season stress. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have some of our regulars on the show today, plus some great insights from others. To start Harry Carol from Nutrien gives us the market report from Mt Barker. Then we are joined by Farrin Parker from CSBP who takes us through what they are doing to secure their post-seeding fertiliser. Jeremy Stuart then shares an update on the Great Southern real estate market and finally Ash Couper from Nutr...