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- Back Roads is taking viewers to some of Australia's most interesting and resilient communities. The towns chosen for the programnme are full of colourful characters whose grit and good humour continues to uplift and inspire.
- A major court victory for the northern cattle industry; Rebuilding after summer's bushfires; Has COVID-19 revealed a lack of self-reliance for farm manufacturing and supplies; Plus the remote life of an outback cop.
- Heather Ewart visits the Quilpie shire in outback Queensland. With an average age of under 40, residents have transformed this former Opalopolis into a vibrant community, with a little help from Australia's biggest dinosaur.
- Being small has been no barrier to success for one of Australia's more unique beverage manufacturers.
- Namoi Valley irrigators face one of the most severe cutbacks ever faced by an industry: a 70 to 80 per cent reduction in their major input, water. Not surprisingly, the farmers are upset at the New South Wales Government plan. While locals agree the Namoi situation demands urgent action, friction has arisen over how best to deal with a problem that his literally flowed from bad decisions in the past.
- Five years ago, George King's neighbours scoffed at the idea he could turnaround the fortunes of his family's farm without spending a fortune in the process. By any objective measurement the place was falling to bits. The paddocks were clapped out, the stock was in-bred and the dams were silting up. He believed the problem was not the farm as such, but the way it was being managed, lots of decisions with no clear goal in mind. After a decade in the red, the place is in the black and we have just been back to see how George King turned it around.
- Around this time last year, Landline reported on the concerns of farmers in Victoria's High Country about what might happen if the area had summer bushfires. The concerns were obviously justified. More than 1 million hectares of farmland and forest remains vividly charred by the worst fires in many years.
- Those involved in a new industry are usually excited when growth follows investment. However Australia's rural history is littered with industries that grew only to be troubled by oversupply and undeveloped markets. One new fruit industry is determined it will not follow this same sorry path. Persimmon growers know they've reached a cross roads and the decisions they make in the next year or so will determine the scale and profitability of a relatively unknown industry.
- Speak to the person in the street about alpacas and they will probably assume you are a shonky tax scheme operator looking for someone to dupe. While the reputations of many emerging rural industries took a battering in the late 1990s at the hands of those who have never got their hands dirty, alpaca breeders have been quietly growing the largest alpaca herd outside of South America. And while that is not a lot of animals yet, the industry is confident its fleeces will one day rival the finest merino wool at the high end of the luxury fibre market.
- It is not often you come across a qualified chemist who does not like to use chemicals or an organic farmer who strongly supports the use of genetic engineering. But the winemaker who owns Australia's largest organic winery is such a man. Furthermore, he has just joined forces with several other organic grapegrowers to become the biggest producer by far of organic wine in this country.
- Crikey.com.au founder Stephen Mayne discusses the sale of the Stanbroke Pastoral Company by AMP.