
About the episode
The charity Need for Feed is still supplying urgently needed livestock feed to Victorian farmers dealing with a fodder crisis. Fruit and vegetable growers are being audited up to six times a year and a key frustration they face is duplication in legislation requirements. To drought assistance available from the Victorian Government, and Country Today queried whether grants for re-sowing pastures would also be available for re-sowing crops. And the answer appears to be yes. The national cattle herd is predicted to steadily increase in supply over the next twelve months and producers are feeling confident despite high female slaughter rates. There's a mystery disease which causes root wrapping in one of our favourite superfoods, blueberries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.