South Australian Country Hour
Headlines for Tuesday, December 2, 2008
- ABB / AWB proposed merger reax
- 50 million dollar Coorong lifeline rejected by pollies
- Futuris restructures and rebrands as Elders
- Fertiliser industry in stalemate
- ABB/AWB merger talks confirmed
- Grain segregation issues concerning growers
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South Australia Features
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.
No more bad backs
Manually planting thousands of trees is a strenuous task - one that your back never thanks you for later on.
Cooped up in a caravan
They were a "home away from home" for the road crews sent bush to build roads and bridges early last century. A mobile workers' van, built in 1906, was on display at the recent Kingston Show in South Australia.
Getting the good oil
So you can pick a shiraz from a cabernet - but can you pick a blended extra virgin olive oil from a single varietal?
Impressions of sheep production in Brazil
"Their sheep are abysmal, they have no wool on them, there like a skinny goat and when I saw some in the abattoir I said I wouldn't feed this to a dog back home."
Native Blooms
As I drove into the flower farm at Furner in the south-east of South Australia, I could see rows of banksia and protea bushes but very few flowers.
Looking for the cause of Mundulla Yellows
Why has funding into finding the cause of this disease that has killed thousands of gum trees stopped?
