About the episode
There’s been a huge case of spray drift killing crops in the Riverina, will losses estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Riverina Agronomic agronomist Pat McGuiness spoke to Libby Price. Australia’s horticulture industry is in a boom period with production valued at $17 billion. A dairy farming family from Murray Bridge in South Australia have won the prestigious Weekly Times Farmer of the Year Award. The Altmann's run a highly intensive system with cows kept under cover and milked three times a day. The Innovation winner in the Weekly Farmer of the Year awards is John Said of Fresh Select. He's developed the Nutri-v vegetable powder with the help of the CSIRO. Sheep finalist, Andrew Edgar runs 10,000 composite breeding ewes in Nareen in Victoria’s Western District. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
