Western Australia Country Hour
West Australian riders Lucy and Brandon Fiore have finished as the third team in the 2025 Mongol Derby, the world's toughest horse race.
Aug 22, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Hosted by Belinda Varischetti, the presenter of the Western Australian Country Hour, the country's finest hour
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Western Australia Country Hour
The head of a national pig hunting group believes the recent prosecution of two hunters in Western Australia's South West highlights the need for humane hunting practices.
Aug 21, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The WA record price for lambs was smashed at the Muchea saleyard, just north of Perth yesterday, with a pen of 33 lambs selling for $400 a head, up $30 on the previous record set a couple of weeks ago at Katanning.
Aug 20, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Two feral pig hunters have been fined a significant amount of money for animal cruelty in Western Australia's South West.
Aug 19, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A Queensland couple who left the city life behind and wanted to strip back to basics in the bush are now running a full-time nudist camp.
Aug 18, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Thanks to some recent good rain, WA is now on track to grow 22 million tonnes of grain.
Aug 15, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Canada's canola seed has just been effectively locked out of China. Agricultural industry analyst Andrew Whitelaw says that's good news for Aussie farmers.
Aug 14, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The head of the Northern Biosecurity Group says the Mid West is anecdotally one of the worst locations in Western Australias for feral pig infestations.
Aug 13, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Todays we'll take a close look at calls for future grains research to be funded and coordinated by a farmer owned and lead organisation.
Aug 12, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The first half of today's show comes direct from Kununurra for the grand opening of the Ord's new cotton gin.
Aug 11, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
An acclaimed cattle breeder, affectionately known as "the Brahman lady", has offered a stern warning to anyone working with livestock. Get tested and vaccinated for Q Fever.
Aug 08, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A South West baker is on a mission to change the way people think and cook, when it comes to food waste.
Aug 07, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A prominent WA livestock producer says trespassers are often to blame for livestock straying out of their paddocks and onto local roads.
Aug 06, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The mining industry's peak body, representing explorers, says tensions are starting to rise over land use in regional Australia with resource companies and the renewable energy sector competing for land.
Aug 05, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A WA based grain marketing specialist says prospects for the state wheat harvest have significantly improved in recent weeks, which can only put more downward pressure on wheat prices.
Aug 04, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A pastoralist left reeling after Western Australia's worst-ever flood thinks the government should make it much easier for people to access assistance in such trying circumstances.
Aug 01, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Western Australia's only commercial sheep milk and cheese farm plans to expand.
Jul 31, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The state fisheries minister has being urged to take immediate action to protect WA's iconic dhufish, after confidential documents revealed its sustainability risk has escalated from high to severe.
Jul 30, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Western Australia's beekeepers are now stepping up to help drought affected farmers in South Australia.
Jul 29, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A new program designed to support the mental wellbeing of veterinarians has secured the funding it needs for a national roll-out.
Jul 28, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Country town residents relive AC/DC/Sherbet tours of the 1970s.
Jul 25, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Australia has lifted biosecurity restrictions on beef imports from the United States.
Jul 24, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The WA record price for lamb was broken at the Katanning sheep market today reaching $320 per head.
Jul 23, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A Victorian dairy farmer and former livestock agent has has been banned from owning cattle for 10 years, after being convicted and fined $75,000 for extensive animal cruelty offences.
Jul 22, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
Western Australia's first targeted aerial cull of feral deer has started in the state's south.
Jul 21, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The Kelpies for Kids project will feature on Landline this week.
Jul 18, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
A new national record price for lambs was set yesterday at the Forbes saleyard, in the central west of New South Wales, with a pen of second cross lambs sold for $454 dollars a head.
Jul 17, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The transition advocate for phase out of the live sheep trade by sea is confident the funds and assistance available, in the lead up to the end of the trade in 2028, offers a bright future for the WA sheep industry.
Jul 16, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
The federal agriculture minister Julie Collins visited Western Australia to announce further details of the $139.7 million transition assistance package to support the phase out of live sheep exports by sea.
Jul 15, 2025•55 min
Western Australia Country Hour
At a farm school, just south of Perth, a new crossbreed of cattle have been born, using semen from an African breed of cattle called the Nguni.
Jul 14, 2025•55 min
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