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Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

The Senate inquiry into Australia's major supermarkets recommends a mandatory code of conduct and significant penalties for breaches, farmers fear worsening wild dog attacks on sheep, and researchers develop healthier alternative to sugary bubble tea using oats.

Drought-stricken farmers on King Island unable to receive fodder donations for livestock due to local council hold up, why the price of imported olive oil is skyrocketing, and growers continue to invest in developing seedless fruit varieties. 

A "really serious outbreak" of fire ants in Southern Queensland, industry body Australian Grape and Wine calls for wine to be included in the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, and Australia's oldest operating textile mill turns 150 this year. 

The supermarket giants faced a public grilling this week, suppliers of garden plants to Bunnings say treatment from the company left them feeling like "slaves", and it's been 20 years since Shrek the sheep was finally shorn after 6 years on the run. 

Supermarket review interim report handed down, what goes into growing Australia's largest corn crop and how do you know your extra-virgin olive oil is really extra-virgin?

Australian producers forced to accept cheap chicken prices, Australian wine producers are popping corks and clinking glasses with tariff news, and everyone loves parfait but would you eat one made from lab grown quail?

Cattle deaths on a live export ship to Indonesia, a price drop in fresh ginger and a Tassie company partnering with seaweed farmers to produce a climate-friendly milk.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia. 

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

Food industry reacts to Four Corners report into the major supermarkets, crisis meetings in Australia's largest wine region due to low grape prices, and the worlds best botanic vodka is here in Australia.

Growers say retailer and consumer standards for produce are unrealistic, some farmers are looking towards renewable energy projects to future-proof their properties, and a rural vet clinic has been saved by a local farming family.

Food charities being impacted by weather, sustainability of water use by almond questioned, and the Northen Territory may no longer need to ship in bananas from interstate.

Australian wine exports decline, a new sultana grape variety is released and South Australian farmers protest for better prices.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

A Countrywide special episode on glyphosate. Why is it used in agriculture? What is it's importance? What would happen if it were to be banned? And why are are 800 Australians in court saying the herbicide has caused their Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

China resumes taking meat from some Australian abattoirs, lab-grown quail clears first hurdle for consumption and crocodiles get a taste for plant-based diets.

Australians can enjoy home-grown garlic, soil could help store carbon and banana farmers prepare for a cyclone.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.