Western Australia Country Hour

Victorian farmers are cutting their crops for hay as the drought continues to bite across south-east Australia.

Western Australia Country Hour

Hot on the heels of Australia's largest sheep station, Rawlinna, getting the green light from government to sell, another massive sheep station, in th...

Western Australia Country Hour

Wool Producers says there's been a complete lack of transparency around the development and funding of the Future Flock Strategy and the DAFF should c...

Western Australia Country Hour

Elders managing director and CEO Mark Allison says it's great to finally have the green light from the ACCC, a year after the deal to merge with rival...

Western Australia Country Hour

The process and fairness of awarding grants, under the Federal Government's $139.7 million package, to support the phase out of the live sheep trade b...

Western Australia Country Hour

Australian taxpayers will fund a $600 million rescue package for mining giant Glencore to keep copper processing facilities operational in North Queen...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Ord Valley's northern food bowl 'pipe dream' struggles amid changing climate.

Western Australia Country Hour

Two amateur prospector mates, who found a centuries-old, rare Buddha statue in the Shark Bay region, are calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to...

Western Australia Country Hour

Kojonup wool grower and director on the board of Australian Wool Innovation, Neil Jackson, is quietly confident the wool market will hold, if not rise...

Western Australia Country Hour

State agriculture and food minister Jackie Jarvis says the new $55.7 million primary industries research and development facility at Jandakot is a sho...

Western Australia Country Hour

Western Australia Country Hour

Australia's obesity crisis is worsening, and experts say an over consumption of ultra processed foods is to blame.

Western Australia Country Hour

Australia's peak body for truck drivers is launching a national campaign to try to stamp out an illegal courtesy signal used by the haulage industry f...

Western Australia Country Hour

The wool market has surged again this week, with the benchmark Eastern Market Indicator up 109 cents to close at 1453 cents a kilogram clean, its high...

Western Australia Country Hour

A school bus driver in the state's Great Southern has called for urgent action over wandering livestock saying it's only a matter of time before a tra...

Western Australia Country Hour

DAFF is continuing its efforts to recover all the imported nappy pants that could contain the khapra beetle or larvae, that was found in a box of Litt...

Western Australia Country Hour

Consolidated Pastoral Company is officially the new owner of Rawlinna Station with the WA government signing-off on the pastoral lease and finalising...

Western Australia Country Hour

A farmer in the Lakes district, in the state's south east, has a trial site on his property to try and find a control method for a small beetle called...

Western Australia Country Hour

DPIRD's latest stock assessments show species like pink snapper, red emperor, and the iconic dhufish are under serious threat, even at risk of collaps...

Western Australia Country Hour

The live sheep trading season has started this week in unprecedented circumstances, with not one livestock vessel confirmed to return to Australia bet...

Western Australia Country Hour

WA's three main grain grower lobby groups have written to federal agriculture minister Julie Collins calling for an immediate 50 per cent reduction in...

Western Australia Country Hour

Nationals Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan doesn't believe net zero is working for Australia.

Western Australia Country Hour

Agriculture, outdoor workers and critical infrastructure, such as telecommunications, will all be negatively affected by climate change. That's some o...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner says WA is in a good position to learn from the mistakes made in the eastern states and ensure the e...

Western Australia Country Hour

Across parts of Western Australia during springtime, there's a flower that blooms so bright you can see it from space. Canola was first introduced to...

Western Australia Country Hour

Community groups involved in controlling invasive pests and feral animals say their work is being compromised by the state government's new firearms l...

Western Australia Country Hour

The local bee industry is using cameras and artificial intelligence to try to keep the destructive varroa mite out of Western Australia.

Western Australia Country Hour

In the last four to six weeks there's been a significant increase in the number of WA sheep heading to the eastern states.

Western Australia Country Hour

The Western Australian government has announced plans to create a new marine park that spans the whole of the Exmouth Gulf, about 1200 kilometres nort...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Bee Industry Council of Western Australia is urging all Western Australians to remain vigilant following the recent detection of varroa in South A...

Western Australia Country Hour

A new ABC Science podcast, out today, reveals horses and cows are being cloned in Australia.

Western Australia Country Hour

Six months after Consolidated Pastoral Company purchased Rawlinna Station the WA government is yet to sign-off on the pastoral lease and finalise the...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Australian avocado industry has its eye on China as the next major export market.

Western Australia Country Hour

WA producers have shown very little interest in the V and V Walsh forward contracts on offer since the start of the month.

Western Australia Country Hour

Industrial action continues at CBH's  Kwinana Grain Terminal, where workers and the union, currently negotiating an enterprise agreement, intend to en...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace want Australia's supermarkets to have access to the National Livestock Identification System to...

Western Australia Country Hour

The owner of three struggling dairy companies in the state's South West has been handed a financial lifeline to keep the businesses afloat.

Western Australia Country Hour

Mining company Ausgold has acquired over 800 hectares of land to advance the development of its Katanning Gold Project in Western Australia's Great So...

Western Australia Country Hour

West Australian riders Lucy and Brandon Fiore have finished as the third team in the 2025 Mongol Derby, the world's toughest horse race.

Western Australia Country Hour

The head of a national pig hunting group believes the recent prosecution of two hunters in Western Australia's South West highlights the need for huma...