
About the episode
An update on how winter crops are coping with the lack of rain in the Wimmera with many grain growers choosing to resow ahead of forecast rain. Part of the Allan Labor Government's extension of drought assistance includes the formation of Drought Response Taskforce. Nationals member for Murray Plains, Peter Walsh, has been invited to join. The Victorian government may have put a freeze on the emergency services and volunteer ley 150 per cent hike that saw thousands of farmers take the streets. But it hasn’t frozen emergency services budget cuts. At least that’s according Leader of the Nationals in Victoria Danny O’Brien. The United States is paying the price for President Donald Trump's on-again-off-again tariffs. The OECD blames tariffs for a cut in economic growth. The Weekly Times report with Editor James Wagstaff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.