Tasmanian Country Hour
Headlines for Thursday, July 29, 2010
- Call for national rural land register
- Allied push for industry input on biosecurity
- Origin of organics
- Rare butterfly threatened by wasp
More from the Tasmanian Country Hour
National News
Coalition backs Greens' call for register of foreign farm ownership
The Federal Opposition is supporting a call for a national register of foreign purchases of land and water in rural Australia.
Banned insecticide found on NZ food
New Zealand's food safety body has found residue from the banned chemical endosulfan on local fruit and vegetables.
Water authority admits overcharging for irrigator exits
A water authority in southern NSW has been overcharging farmers deciding to get out of irrigation.
Farmers plan to buy blue gum forests and burn them down
A group of 32 landholders have joined forces to buy up blue gum forests on Kangaroo Island, burn them down and create farmland.
Abalone poachers may have damaged Esperance stocks
Two Perth men have been fined for illegally catching abalone off Western Australia's south coast.
More National Rural News
Tasmanian Features
Is foreign investment a problem?
How much new foreign investment is actually occurring in Australia, and should agriculture and food industries be concerned?
Tasmanian vineyards expanding
Tasmanian vineyards are looking to plant more vines, despite low grape prices which have plagued wine producers from mainland Australia.
Apple growers lose last bid with Minister
Biosecurity Australia argues chinese fruit fly doesn't attack apples. The apple growers say there's more research needed.
Fungi make Tasmania a mycological Mecca
Beautiful, magical mushrooms are luring fungi enthusiasts into Tasmania's rain forests
National Landcare Winners 2010
It's the night of nights for community groups and environmental achievers who gathered in Canberra to celebrate the National Landcare winners for 2010.
Tasmanian trappers' and snarers' rare legacy
Most of Tasmania's trappers' and snarers' huts and heritage are in terminal decline, just as their heritage value in being appreciated.
Copping it at Cape Grim
When the world's scientists and politicians sit down to talk climate change and how the earth's atmosphere has changed over time, it's data collected in Tasmania they have in front of them.
Drought lessons for government as well as farmers
Nick Flittner's been reflecting on the lessons from the drought as he leaves the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association as drought and climate change manager.
A new world record lamb price
The Campbell Town Show is steeped in 172 years of tradition and it's also moving ahead with the times. One of this year's innovations is a hoof-and-hook competition to show exactly how prime lambs perform from paddock through to the plate.
Lifting the lid on Oatlands' Callington flour mill
Oatland's Callington wind mill is being transformed as the centre piece of a big project to revitalise Tasmania's southern midlands.
