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Neil tests taps

Arno Bay oval to look as green as the MCG

The Arno Bay football oval will soon be looking as good as the MCG, with the completion of the rainwater harvesting project at the town’s ABB grain storage site.


Professor Ross Garnaut

Ross Garnaut on the future for agriculture and carbon emissions

The Federal Government's chief climate change adviser has recommended Australia needs to cut emissions by at least ten percent by 2020.


Geoff Arthur loves his buffalo

Milking buffaloes in the Territory

Swamp buffalo have been roaming the Territory for more than 170 years, but they can only produce up to three litres of milk a day.


20 per cent of the Red Gums on Lindsay Island have died in the past year

Lindsay Island needs water too

Lindsay Island is 120 kilometres downstream of Mildura and, in the past year, 20 per cent of the red gums there have died.


Lettuce lose some beef

Would gazing at endless paddocks full of lettuce day in, day out, inspire you to go on a weight loss program?


NTCH cricket - AC

Rural sportsmen shine

To the backdrop of a one-day international cricket match, the Country Hour dicsovered first-hand that rural sportsmen continually outshine their city counterparts.


Almond blossom on Neale Bennett's property at Merbein

Spring is really here

You know spring is here when Sunraysia's almond trees start to blossom.


Tim Elliott checks the quality of fruit in the Territory's biggest packing shed

Mango season begins

Tour a packing shed to hear about the first of this season's mangoes.


Beauty is in the eye of the press owner

A unique wool press?

Is this the only wool press of its kind in Australia? Tasmanian farmer Tim Chesterman thinks so - in fact, he think it's the only one in the world.


Bush tomato and date chutney by Ange St Vincent.

Budding bush chefs

It's your chance to channel your creative juices with bushfoods in this year's Alice Springs Desert Festival's Bushfoods/Wildfoods recipe competition.


It's starting to get hot in here!

Wood-fired pizzas on the Cold Esky Challenge

A fire crackles away as it heats up a handmade wood-fired oven sitting in an outside kitchen.


Removing the nets from Lake George

Fishing in Lake George

Lake George in the south-east of South Australia was once full of mullet.


NTCH white dingo

Dingo sheep dog

A snow white dingo pup in Darwin is being reared with some optimistic goals in mind.


Ord Valley pumpkin scones

Paddock to Plate: Pumpkins

The Ord Valley in the Kimberley region of Western Australia produces 4500 tonnes of pumpkins each year.


wreath flower in full bloom

Wreath flowers drive tourist boom at Perenjori

About 20 kilometres from Perenjori in WA’s wheatbelt, a drive down a dusty track reveals one of the region’s most colourful inhabitants.


Geoff Hyles at Tidbinbilla overlooking the Murrumbidgee River

Backpaddock Dreaming in a changed climate

How will farming look in the future? Is our warmer and drier outlook all that challenges farmers today? Greening Australia ACT/southeast NSW hosted a fascinating discussion about Climate Change and Australian Agriculture.


River Red Gums on the Yass River after willows are removed

Cleaning willows from the Yass River

If you don't like the idea of ripping willows out of the creeks and rivers, then you should see the results on the Yass River, west of Canberra.


Natimuk nudes

The Natimuk nudes

How much do you think a photo of a naked farmer is worth? Well, the locals of Natimuk, in western Victoria, know.


Murray and Darling junction

Country Hour where the Darling meets the Murray

The Country Hour continued its journey up the Murray-Darling Basin, broadcasting from the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers at Wentworth in far south-west NSW.


Two men and a tractor

Tractors go rabbiting

The Harry Ferguson Tractor Club chug through the hills of the Wyperfeld National Park in Victoria's Mallee region to help control the rabbit population.


The surrounding vineyard makes for a perfect setting

The Cold esky Challenge is heating up to take off the winter chill

Winter's drawing to a close, so to end the season with a bang we've decided to heat things up a bit on this week's Cold esky Challenge with a chilli or two. We're cooking outside in the sun in amongst all the grape vines on a winery near Cowaramup.


The machine is drilling 100 metre holes at an angle of 60 degrees.

Drilling for gold

Finding gold in the Northern Territory is much more complicated now than what it used to be; back in the panning days.


Jennifer proudly displays a small collection of her 109 varieties!

Brunswick's jam guru strong contender in Cold esky Challenge

Have you ever walked into a room to find yourself surrounded by 109 different varieties of jams, marmalades, pickles and chutneys?


Cattleman Duane Fishlock died on impact when the helicopter landed on its right side.

NT cattleman dies in chopper crash

A prominent Northern Territory pastoralist and rodeo bull breeder was killed when the helicopter he was flying crashed at Mataranka, an hour south of Katherine.


British Admiral Beach on King Island

A royal stay on King Island

King Island's a 40 minute flight north west of Burnie, Tasmania. About 1,500 people live there and the majority work in the beef or dairy industries. There's also a lot of artists and writers.


Mark Hollett makes sure each beer has its own unique flavours

Homemade apple cider and handcrafted beer takes on Cold esky Challenge

There's no secret that the South West has been experiencing an abundant growth of apples in recent months. However the secret on today's Cold esky Challenge is in the way this produce is being used by local people, including a Bridgetown cidermaker.


Port Milang jetty

History of the Coorong

Terry Sim was born and raised in Milang, on the north west shores of Lake Alexandrina. After a career working as chief curator of the fish collection for the Museum of South Australia, he has now taken it upon himself to document the social history of the Coorong and lakes system at the mouth of the River Murray.


Close up of the spanners

15,000 spanners

Driving up the long, winding dirt road that is the entrance to John Pically's property, you get the inkling he might be a bit of a collector.


A desert sunset.. it doesn't get much better than this!

Cold esky Challenge goes deep into Aussie outback to make bush damper

I've travelled 9,000 kilometres through five states and five deserts in 20 days to bring you this week's Cold esky Challenge.


Talbot in Darwin

First car to cross continent arrives in Darwin

The first car to cross the Australian continent has arrived in Darwin on the 100th anniversary of the journey. Two travellers left Adelaide in June 1908 for an off road drive to Darwin that took 52 days. Today, the Talbot they drove arrived in Darwin on a trailer.


Will makes a fool of himself, again

Ladies and gentlemen, start your camels!

Camels and jockeys will ride over 150km in two days for Australia's first camel endurance race.