About the episode
Exporting live dairy heifers to China used to be a lucrative market for Australian dairy farmers. At its peak, we exported more than 200 thousand cows a year. But now China has an oversupply of milk and is now culling cows. Former prisoners from a Gippsland correctional facility could help fill the region's continuing dairy labour shortage after doing the Cows Create Careers course The Victorian Government has finally announced nearly $30 million worth of disaster recovery funding for tourism hit by the Grampians and little Desert fires earlier this year. Western District farmers frustrated at the lack of progress and the cuts to the size to the East Grampian Pipeline are rallying the troops and recruited federal mps to help to try to revive the original project. The weekly Weekly Times report. Libby Price spoke to editor James Wagstaff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
