Libby Price

Country Today with Libby Price.

This is the Country Today podcast.

I'm Libby Price.

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It's National Water Week, so let's take a look at where we've come with water reform in the last 30 years.

Yes, and wouldn't it be nice if some landowners got more credit for some of the work they've done with wetlands on their own properties? But we'll leave that for another day.

Zara, great to talk to you again.

Thanks, Libby.

Country Today with Libby Price.

Hello and welcome back to the Country Today podcast with me, Libby Price.

Victoria's Auditor-General's released a report revealing the state's fire services hold barely a quarter of the $1.5 billion needed to replace a critically ageing firefighting fleet.

With a winter cropping harvest just around the corner, farmers across the border and northeast are keeping a close eye on their crops following recent rain.

Lionel, welcome back to Country Today.

Now, the air might fill this week.

It sure did, Libby.

Yes, thanks for having me.

Country Today with Libby

Price.

This is the Country Today podcast.

My name's Libby Price.

Great to have your company again.

Today, it's said you only know when a market's peaked, when it starts to fall.

So the dominating influence on our beef exports is the United States.

Why is the herd rebuild taking so long after the drought?

and welcome to the Country Today podcast.

My name's Libby Price.

Lovely to have your company.

In one of the most significant allegations of a breach in Australia's competition laws, the ACCC has filed civil proceedings in Victoria's federal court against Australia's largest egg suppliers.

So this has been occurring for about five or six years.

That's

right, Libby.

Would you describe it as one of the most significant cases for the ACCC?

Let's head across the Tasman to our Australian commentator, Libby Price.

Uh, Libby, g'day.

Welcome to the show.

Appreciate your time.

Well, I, I have naively assumed that a lot of our products are not imported, and so I've made the mistake of buying something and realizing it's from Denmark.

So it is pretty frustrating for pork producers.

The, but the other side of the coin, though, uh, Libby, is Australia, like New Zealand, is an exporting nation.

We cannot, um, say to countries around the world, "We're gonna export all of our product to you, but we're not l- not going to allow-

Thank you so much for speaking to us.

Thanks, Libby.

Thanks for having me.

Rob Farmer from Australian Pork Limited.

And so a lot of those crops and pastures started to use significant water.

In fact, they kind of used half of the profile they had available in some areas.

The most amazing thing, Libby, was that we were seeing water use in the northern Mallee, places like Oyen, similar to crop water use at Hamilton and pasture water use down in the Darien Country area.

along the coast of the southwest, which I would suspect is very unusual for this time of the year.

What made you decide to give regen farming

a go? Thanks Libby yeah it's been a great six years here at Chatsworth House so far only at the start of our journey.

We started getting interested in this way of farming back about 10 years ago when we were going through some gut health sort of issues with kids and myself, nothing too major, but it kind of led us down this gut health journey.

And at the same time, I was also starting to get really interested in soil health.

Sarah, wonderful to speak with you.

No worries.

Thanks, Libby.

Sarah Winnie, who with her husband, Tom, run Chatsworth House Mixed Grazing Property at Chatsworth in Western Victoria.