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- Margaret Fulton's new anti-GM-food book savaged by pro-GM farmers ... (audio)
Fiona Ellis-Jones hears they call the book 'ill-informed' ...
published: 25/11/2008 (GM food) - Farmers across New South Wales and northern Victoria face another plague of locusts ... (audio)
Shon Walker hears the details from Chris Adriansen, Director of the Australia Locust Plague Commission
published: 19/11/2008 (Locusts) - Recession in Japan a concern for Australia's rural sector... (audio)
Ben McLean disusses the implications with Charlie McElhony of the National Farmers Federation
published: 17/11/2008 (Japan, Recession) - Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation set to commercialise unusual by-product - biodegradable plastic (audio)
The Centre's CEO Dr Peter Twine tells Kel Richards it will be used to produce a multitude of products in around 5 years
published: 07/11/2008 (Sugar cane, Biodegradable plastic) - Losing punters in this week's Melbourne Cup may have joked about their nags being sent to glue factories ... but for the RSPCA, it's no joke (audio)
Professor Clive Phillips is with the Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics at the School of Veterinary Science at Queensland University - he's talking to Shon Walker
published: 07/11/2008 (Horses, Abbatoirs)
