Amelia Bernasconi

Australia's longest-running radio show is celebrating 80 years on air, and while so much has changed in farming and broadcasting, the core of The Country Hour remains the same.

Growers at Walgett are grinning from ear to ear as they fill their silos with a bumper grain harvest. 

Neville Mattick says feral pigs are eating the lambs on his farm in the NSW Central West, with fewer than one in 100 surviving this season. 

Farmers will pay lower registration fees on the old vehicles they keep on hand to fight fires under a new scheme in NSW.

It is the most consumed protein in the country, but an independent review of Australia's chicken meat industry has found the market is failing, threatening supply and prices. 

Hundreds of cartons of nappy pants remain unaccounted for after one of the biggest threats to Australia's grain industry, khapra beetle larvae, was found in the imported products.

Authorities are investigating how khapra beetle, the number-one-priority pest for the grains industry, entered Australia.

The Independent Planning Commission of NSW knocks back plans to restart Redbank Power Station in the Hunter Valley, fuelling it with biomass instead of coal tailings.

Ryelee Brain, 17, died while travelling in an allegedly stolen car driven by a 14-year-old. 

The weather bureau forecasts above-average rainfall across the east coast in coming months, which is good for some farmers and challenging for others.

"Spirited bidding" sees a pen of lambs sell for $479.50/head at a regional New South Wales saleyard, but agents say this still may not be the top of the market.

Bayswater Power Station is one of NSW's last coal-fired power stations. As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, workers know its days are numbered.

They're not known for their fleece, apparently the meat is quite tasty ... but the iconic feature of Babydoll sheep is their teddy bear-like face. They are much more than paddock ornaments though, with interest from orchardists, B&B operators and even for animal therapy.

Olympians, actors, models and horse-racing royalty saddle up for the 2025 Tour d'Horse, raising more than $1 million for the KIDS Foundation for trauma survivors.

Bickham Coal Company says after decades of deliberations it has "no intention" of resurrecting plans for mining on its controversial site in the NSW Upper Hunter.

Hunter Valley Operations has been granted an approval extension just two months before it was due to close.

Australia will be subject to a 10 per cent reciprocal tariff and while Donald Trump is signalling big impacts on Australian beef, he is yet to detail just how large the tariff will be.

Farmers label the findings of a state government inquiry into the impact of the live sheep export ban on NSW as a disappointment, with just one recommendation delivered.

Rum distillers are taking over a 1940s milk factory in the Hunter Valley, as the industry looks to go large in the international market.

The corporation is under fire after correcting reports on native forest logging, retrospectively cutting volumes by almost 30 per cent over the past three years.

An English businessman, on his first trip to Australia, has paid $2.8 million for a thoroughbred yearling, setting a new record.

A remote farming community is rallying together to raise funds to build their own childcare centre.

Farmer and agronomist Ashlee Johnston had to juggle early mornings, late nights and 300km of travel each day if she wanted child care for her daughter. Then locals took action.

Ernie Harbott's household has produced almost no landfill this year by reusing, recycling and composting.

Safety fears and conspiracy theories about the feed additive Bovaer have been circulating on social media, but the maker and Australia's peak livestock body are defending its use.