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- A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.
- World famous fungi hunters, a photographer and a filmmaker, invite audiences on a unique expedition into the wilderness of Australia, where the symbiotic dance between fungi, plants and animals, unlocks nature's greatest secrets.
- An elderly lady prepares her regular Christmas ham, only to discover she's produced an inexplicably infinite one. She marches through her town collecting followers enchanted by the ham's powers, culminating in a cliff-side community feast.
- Two poets have three days to capture the heart and soul of a county town in verse, and then perform their work to the community for a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down.
- One man's project to catalogue all the world's edible plants is helping to fight child starvation; A growing number of women taking up the trade of butchering; The 70-year-old shearer still a gun on the boards.
- Farmers in Victoria's wool producing Western Districts believe they may have found a plant to beat a tough salinity problem: a South American legume called Melilotus Alba.
- 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.
- To the sometimes prickly issue of housing encroaching on farm country. We've all heard about diminishing country towns but what about the reverse situations? - when the town gets bigger and the only land available for expansion is used for farming? When the urban sprawl meets farming country, should primary producers be forced to accommodate the newcomers by changing the way they farm? Or should those who choose to live in certain areas, have to put up what was there first? It can be a very smelly question. Opinions vary on what, if any, compromises should be made.
- When most people think of winter in northern Australia, they imagine warm days, clear skies and fresh air. Well think again. The "dry" is also the time when back burning's carried across 30 million hectares of savannah and spinifex to reduce the impact of wildfires in the spring. There's so many fires sending plumes of smoke and soot into the skies that some days you could swear you're in Tokyo instead of the Top End. In fact there are some now questioning whether the rangelands can sustainably continue, "fighting fire with fire".
- He's from one of Australia's most prominent family business dynasties. Now Peter Holmes a Court, the eldest son of Janet and the late Rober Holmes a Court is aiming to make his own mark in the corporate world. Holmes a Court's unashamed ambition is to create the world's largest cattle company, and like his late father, his approach is already making waves. Let's profile the man who aims to be Australia's new cattle King.
- It's been said that at its peak, Melbourne's wool stockpile alone would have filled the Melbourne Cricket Ground three times over. Aided by a low Australian dollar and a recovering wool market, nationally six hundred thousand stockpile bales have been cleared since the start of the year. It's ten years since the wool reserve price scheme collapsed leaving 4.7 million bales in storage so the end of the stockpile, not only marks a major milestone it also removes a major millstone from around the wool industry's neck.
- Less than three years ago pork producers in this country were talking about the death of their industry. Rising imports from Canada and Denmark had brought growers to their knees; many forced to start killing their stock, as it was not viable to send them to market. But desperate times in another country, Malaysia, have brought a new prosperity to the pork industry that is now enjoying record prices as well as a massive jump in exports to Asia. Julia Limb looks at the changing fortunes of Australia's pig farmers.
- For many farmers their property is their kingdom, a piece of land that they control and nurture without interference. But a group of graziers in the New South Wales northern tablelands have chosen to relinquish this concept and instead combine their land into a single farm, sharing stock, resources, labour and most significantly, the decision-making process. This new approach to farming is based on a practice which began in medieval Europe one thousand years and these commoners believe it is not only good for their bottom line but also an innovative way to halt the environmental decline.
- Transplanting fully grown trees is an expensive business, and usually the preserve of landscape gardeners on a big budget not commercial orchardists. In southern Queensland though, one avocado grower is transplanting thousands of mature trees, in a bid to dramatically boost yields. After seeing how it's done you'may be left wondering how on earth the trees survive let along go on to produce more fruit than before.
- 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.
- A look at a product which it is claimed will prolong your life and it will fight cancer and it will reduce heart disease. That's not all - the really good news is that it is a red wine or at least a style of red wine. We did not have to travel far to give wonder wine a test taste, we found it at a small winery not far from Brisbane.
- Flora and Mortensen get a ride out sea.
- Tim Lee reports on the grape glut of the past few years, which has seen wine drinkers enjoy high-quality wines at record low prices. However, as he found out, the combination of drought and frost are set to spoil the party.