South Australian Country Hour
Headlines for Friday, January 9, 2009
- Fertiliser outlook
- Australia to continue using toxic insecticide
- Unit pricing will cost producers: AusVeg
- US dairy situation dire
- Cockies vs environment
- A drovers life - part 2
- Fertiliser grower cooperatives
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South Australia Features
Broken Hill's mining history captured through mineral art
Usually you'd associate minerals with making items like mobile phones, houses or cars - but what about using minerals to make art?
Pines for Christmas
Have you got your Christmas tree yet?
The fat old bastards of Ceduna
At the start of the year Ceduna had a few Fat Old Bastards getting around.
Shearing made easy
On a perfect harvesting day in the mid-north, some farmers weren't out in the paddock but in the shearing shed. Just outside Caltowie in South Australia, at Michael Butterick's shearing shed, an upright posture shearing platform was on exhibition.
How does your garden grow?
We're told that one way to fight obesity is to eat more vegetables, and what's better than growing and picking your own?
Whyalla - where the Outback meets the sea
Whyalla is not only Australia's steelmaking engine room, the city is boasting a booming kingfish trade.
Wooden Wudinna
How often have you walked through the bush and seen a piece of wood that looks like a wombat's bum?
Grapegrower mixes it up with DJ career
Grapegrower mixes DJ career with farming.
Worm farm near Broken Hill reducing waste and fighting aphids
You may have seen a worm compost in someone's garden before, working to break down their garden scraps into rich, healthy mulch.
Well, imagine a worm farm doing that for a whole town's green waste, and you'd see something like Australian Vermiculture in Broken Hill.
School of the Air treasure chest
Decades old School of the Air memorabilia to be valued.
