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The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP says the NSW Water Minister has 'jumped the gun' tabling another floodplain harvesting reform while a parliamentary inquiry is investigating the situation

Dr Webster hits back at the CFMEU's John Setka's statement about Mildura, and talks about the region's horticulture needs for international farm labour unlikely to be met at this stage by the Andrews government's labour quarantine arrangements

In an initiative backed by AgriFutures, Australian producers and researchers are looking to expand the medicinal beneficial opportunities from Manuka honey whilst standing firm on Australia's use of the term on the international stage.

Andrew also talks about demystifying grain marketing after a recent collaboration between Thomas Elder Markets and Grain Producers SA, as he also updates Flow listeners on the state of the wheat, barley and canola markets for Australian growers

Local MP Cindy McLeish tells FlowFM she's not aware of any injuries or loss of life yet from the earthquake, but shares about a landslip on a local highway, and reports of concerns at Colac hospital hundreds of kilometres away

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is encouraging farmers and farm freight and machinery operators to consult their advice on safe use and movement of heavy machinery this 2021 winter harvest season at www.nhvr.gov.au

Business is booming trading online from her family's 6th generation family farm at Burra in South Australia's Mid-North in a sign of the times during the COVID-19 pandemic that the tyranny of distance in the bush might at last be over.

The country Liberal was considering running as an independent against his party after dissatisfaction with local issue, particularly regarding the SA-Victoria border, but after discussing the situation with the Premier and Treasurer, has received assurances sufficient in his view to keep him in the Liberal tent

Liam chats with Rikki on Country Viewpoint on FlowFM about rabbit baiting programs around Cleve - more information: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ep/news/20210920-eastern-eyre-rabbit-control

The Mildura MP talks about her question of Health Minister Foley about the future of the Mildura Base Hospital, the regional health plan released a week later and the need to attract and retain professionals in the electorate.

Around 7,000 applications to enter SA are pending, the Nationals member for the state seat of Lowan says, with South Australians and others seeking to enter Victoria sleeping in their cars, with children and/or pets, awaiting approval

The NSW upper house sat for about an hour before the NSW Liberal-National Coalition government ministers' refusal to attend, citing health grounds, brought the sitting to a grinding halt. The swift end to parliamentary sitting contrasts in Labor's view with a 'too little, too late' approach from the NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall to ensuring farmers have adequate labour for the spring harv...

Dr Caron chats with Rikki on Flow about the latest species of dung beetle to be introduced in Australia to process cow and sheep dung in new climatic areas of the nation, to either roll it or burrow it underground

A man nicked Jacko the cockie on Saturday night, footage shows, but a mysterious tipoff saw him safely returned on Monday afternoon. Talking with Portarlington police sergeant Nathan Jones, it was something you couldn't have scripted better for an episode of Blue Heelers.

PIRSA encourages farmers to report potential footrot as South Australia seeks to destigmatise footrot detection in flocks

Dr Webster takes aim at the Andrews Victorian government for declining to include the Mallee in a region eligible for farm water saving projects, and talks about the importance of road safety including a road safety analogy for the mandatory vaccination / vaccine passports debate.

Basin water storages are up to almost overflowing, but some irrigators' general security allocations aren't increasing - why? Claire works through some of the complex reasons, and the tangle of NSW 'gold standard' water metering obligations, in this interview with Rikki on Flow