Victorian Country Hour

Should the government buy and run supermarkets to break up the duopoly

A huge season update and discussion about rain across Victoria

A low pressure system brings fantastic rain across the state.

The Murray Darling Basin Authority has this morning released its draft Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism determination for public review.

Sunraysia fruit growers are pleading for relief from government more than six months on from a monsoon-like rain event hit the region.

Australia is considering a deal with Uruguay that could increase Australia's beef quota into China

Australia is considering an "extraordinary" deal that could secure more tariff-free beef trade with China.

Victorian Farmers Federation give details on getting backapcker visas for farmer businesses fast tracked

Joy Davis, 80, is hanging up her apron after almost 20 years in the kitchen at the Melbourne Royal Show. Mrs Davis's commitment and craft in the kitchen earned her the title of Queen of Scones from her peers.

Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation

Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation

Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation

Rural news and events from Victoria and the nation

The big questions on food security

All the facts and figures from the largest container port in Australia

Pomelo imports suspended, buying dodgy livestock and the need for more truck washes

A new farm chemical, visa issues for horticulture and the most incredible shearer you will meet today

Another player in virtual fencing

US Apples target Australia

High diesel prices hit farmers on the eve of harvest

An inquiry into paraquat decision making, the offset market isn’t working for farmers and meet the rural woman of the year

VIctorian Young Auctioneer of the Year, Austin Gerhardy

Diesel prices are up but wheat prices are down

Bird flu update, bio-stimulant regulation and record priced bull

The 'pause' on backpacker visas is causing major issues for farmers

North west advocacy group says fixing Murray Basin Rail network would help with Victoria's pothole problem

Forecasts predict Victoria is heading towards a record winter crop.

Irrigators lose class action against the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA)

Chicken prices set to rise even if the industry avoids bird flu

The Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from Moorunga Angus' at Lima Park, Swanpool

Assumption College student Max Skillecorn is a young dynamo who sells race horses to fund his sheep stud

Why a new meat inspector course is so important and the winners of the merino challenge

The Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from the Victorian Schools Merino Wether Challenge at Clunes

The US President wants to lower beef prices but will Australian farmers cash in

Check out a V8 Chainsaw

The Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from the Victorian Fruit Growers Association

Conservative politics will scrap the VNI West project and COuntry Hour listeners deliver their verdict

Blazeaid is worried about a go-slow for backpacker visas

Josie Blakeney performs the song she wrote about devastating bushfires for the Country Hour

A go slow for backpacker visas has industry concerned

Live from the Alexandra main street for Flanno for a Farmer

Farm fashion advice for Waz for Flanno for a Farmer Day

Job cuts at SunRice and vaccinations for bird flu

Our season census... the season so far...

Rain and a bird flu update

Warwick Long is live from the Elevate Dairy Innovator Roadshow in Shepparton!

Bird flu, chemical use, station sales and anti-corruption reports today on the Country Hour

A review of the BoM, fines for farmers, the Mallee Machinery Field Days and a lot of money raised for charity

A Victorian government reshuffle and the rules for free range labelling under the threat of bird flu

Stock loss, cattle theft, bird flu and the BoM website

Victorian Country Hour broadcasts live from the Shearing for Kids with Cancer at Wanalta

The deadly H5 strain of bird flu is detected in Victoria for the first time

A big look at a major bushfire inquiry

Ben Carroll becomes the next Premier of Victoria

A key review of the summer bushfires will be released tomorrow and we hear what those on the front line want to see

A big day of tariffs for Australian agricultural exports

Lactalis Australia will close a dairy factory in Victoria

How hard is it to get a meeting with the Water Minister

53 farmers died on Australian farms last year

One farm is charging $10 to walk in a canola paddock and 20,000 people turned up

We get your bird flu questions answered

We check up on the soil moisture situation right around Victoria

The United States opens an investigation into Australian lamb imports

An engineer examines the state of Victoria's roads and what needs to be done to improve the road network.

The state opposition is promising to fix one million potholes across Victoria's road network if elected to government at this years state election, committing to invest $5 billion to repair and rebuild Victoria's roads.

Red meat prices are running hot at the moment, with the supply and demand for sheepmeat and beef very much in favour of farmers who are selling.

Country Fire Authority members at one of the worst affected districts in this year's summer bushfires, say the Longwood region is currently without any CFA senior fire officers.

Telstra's mobile network has suffered a major nationwide outage, potentially affecting millions of customers.

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry into last summer's bushfires, has revealed the Victorian government attempted to gag what the Country Fire Authority could say in its submission.

Australia now has six detections of H5 bird flu in wild birds confirmed by CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong. Acting Chief Veterinary Officer, Cameron Bell with Agriculture Victoria, is encouraging bird owners to be on high alert.

Learn about obscure wine, collect spider venom and meet the woman on a 440km wheelchair journey

Tea tree oil is being tested as a flystrike treatment in sheep

A program of buybacks from willing sellers of agricultural land has been launchhed by the federal government

Rain across Victoria

Peter Small has succeeded in returning the research of Harold Carter to Australia

It's a bad year for blackleg in canola

Water, sheep and regenerative agriculture music in today's Country Hour

Victorian Country Hour broadcast live from Ballarat's Better Beef Conference

A major decision on the future of Paraquat and Diquat is handed down by the chemical regulator

Farmers and vets fear a deadly bird flu strain discovered in Western Australia is spreading, after the H5N1 variant of the virus was confirmed in a bird found on a remote beach.

Weather, climate, tax, beef quotas, tariffs and the first day for a new abattoir

Michael McCormack in studio to talk water on the Country Hour

The RSPCA is explaining why it's setting a standard for dairy

A fertiliser importer says the federal government import program is distorting the market

Stefan Vogel from Rabobank talks war and fertiliser as the Middle East appears close to a peace deal

Farmers debate the 70km dingo fence and what it means for the neighbours

Broadcasting live from the National Wool Selling Centre, as wool prices continue to rise.

Farmers for Climate Action want changes to the fuel tax credit scheme

Matt Dalgleish talks cattle markets

Locusts have been seen in Victoria and we get an update

Angus Verley broadcasts live from the Victorian Apiarists Association - 2026 Annual Conference at Tullamarine.

Bull semen from Australia is back in China

The federal government gives a fertiliser update

Broadcasting live from the Victorian Farmers Federation conference in Ballarat.

Broadcasting live from the United Dairy farmers of Victoria conference on milk price day.

Simon Quilty is in the studio to talk about the world of meat prices

Paraquats future, wild dog coordinator funding and virtual fencing

A scholarship for a young jackaroo who died in a farm accident, the clean up at Ruffy and massive feedback on the BoM's website

SFF parliamentarian, Jeff Bourman talks gun laws on the Country Hour