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- Home delivery saving our cheesemakers; Launching the latest in bush tucker; A new health food supplement made from apples boosts hope for bushfire-hit orchardists; Plus protecting Tasmania's waterways from livestock.
- Up to 70 per cent of jobs available in the year 2020 do not yet exist or so Dr Peter Elyard believes. The futurist says only those who understand sustainable resources will survive and one Melbourne school has taken his words to heart.
- Early next week, a herd of dairy cattle will arrive in Dili to bolster supplies of fresh milk in East Timor. They have been donated by Australian farmers in a goodwill gesture to neighbours going through tough times. Most of the massive international aid effort in East Timor over the past couple of years has focussed on restoring peace to this poverty-stricken nation. But now with independence just weeks away, a lot more emphasis is being placed on rebuilding agriculture and the peoples' capacity to feed themselves into the future.
- Australian farmers are increasingly adopting controlled traffic farming practices as a means of minimising the impact of soil compaction caused by farm machinery and lifting crop yields.
- Farmers know all too well about the cruelties of nature, and the suddenness with which disaster can strike. To survive and enjoy life on the land, farmers have to be resilient, optimistic and dogged. When they take a knock, they have to get up, dust off and keep on going. All those qualities came in handy for Queensland avocado grower Stan Haman four years ago, when he woke up in hospital paralysed.
- It is a bush tradition, a much loved social event and a place of good-natured competition. But in Queensland there are warnings that country shows are under threat from a State Government plan to amalgamate some rural shires.
- Over the past decade the numbers of people who can shear sheep has declined while the average age of shearers is now almost fifty. TAFE schools around the country have been running shearer training courses to redress the balance and put shearing back on the vocational map. Reporter Jason Om takes us to a south Australian school which has turned out scores of qualified shearers.
- Most of New South Wales remains firmly in the grip of drought but you would not know it at Yeovil in the central west, at least not on Nigel Kerin's property. Earlier this year Mr Kerin was named NSW Farmer of the Year and his revolutionary approach is attracting interest from across the country.