Queensland Country Hour

The head of Australia’s first National Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) John Bradley says the agency will focus its efforts on deliberate breaches of new land clearing rules, not farmers trying to do the right thing. 

The head of the new national EPA says its compliance efforts will focus on deliberate breaches of new land clearing legislation, a cactus grower shares his love of prickly plants, and meet one of the first indigenous female woolbrokers.

A south-east Queensland business fined for sending a pallet of bricks infested with fire ants to a Bowen Basin mine site, why can no longer sell Moringa as a food in Australia, and can coffee's boom benefit farmers?

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Testing underway on a suspected case of H5N1 bird flu identified in a seabird at Hawks Nest in NSW. As the new EPBC takes effect, farmers and conservationists share their views of the laws, and meet Bill Webb, the man who makes better belts than RM!

Junction View landholders meet to discuss sandstone quarry concerns, milking spiders to fight varroa mites, and the flystrike breakthrough combining nanotechnology and tea tree oil.  

A plant pathogen being readied to spread on the wind to fight Lantana. The sandstone quarry proposal that has graziers worried. And sharing farm jokes on international joke day.  

Value of Aussie horticulture doubles in a decade, the federal government is investigating Brazilian meat producer JBS over its use of student visas at Australia's largest beef abattoir in southern Queensland. And Birdsville's tough tourism season. 

Concerns as Telstra phases out the Customer Access Network radio system, why the pork industry wants the same country of origin labelling as seafood, and Australia's largest lake, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre transformed by record wet. 

Bradley and Anne-Marie Pike nearly lost it all in 2018.

Qld's looming pollinator shortage, the state government backflips on protecting the Condamine Alluvium, finding and keeping love in the bush. 

Murray Darling Basin review report released, the research challenging assumptions about who is a farmer, and Australia's locust outlook forecasts moderate-to-high infestation risk.

Qld DPI's budget hits $863 million, reef water quality strategy backed by $2 billion, and allegations raw peanuts are being imported illegally by the container load. 

Farmers retain access to Paraquat, but Parksinsons Australia vows to fight the APVMA's decision, Qld's chief vet outlines our bird flu preparedness, and why parents are worried about the future of distance education. 

Vigilance urged over detection of H5N1 bird flu in WA, Macadamia's booming in the North, and the peanut industry stays confident even in the midst of production pressure. 

Proposed Gladstone urea plant has pre-sold 10 years of supply, worth $2.4 billion. Australia hits its beef quota for exports to China, and northern beekeepers prepare for the inevitable arrival of varroa destructor mite. 

Russian hackers The Gentlemen have claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack on Mackay Sugar. The impact of data centres on Australian farm land, and celebrating the voice of the shows, Angus Lane. 

El Nino is official, but does the strength of the event mean you should expect the worst? The latest on the Philippines request to allow banana imports, and the 'mud-guts' steer that put on 3.43 kilos a day at Paddock to Palate. 

After studying the phenomenon for decades, Dr Stone says in the past the moderate El Ninos have wreaked the most havoc on eastern Australia.  He explains why the strength of the event is not a good predictor of the severity. 

There's more fertiliser on the way to Australia, but some importers are not happy about it. The latest detection of fire ants in Qld, and $3 million to kickstart Emu Swamp Dam ... again. 

Australia to fund $1 million worth of lumpy skin disease vaccines for Indonesia, what the agreement between the US and Iran means for shipping, and celebrating Marto's Mangoes big win. 

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world with our team of specialist reporters.