Country Breakfast - Separate Stories Podcast

Checking in with Australia's tourism industry: operators say they're on life support with no international tourists and staff looking for more secure work.

This week why COVID has been great for artisan cheese; there's money in mud and it's pushing up bull prices and we head to Australia's first organic camel milk dairy.

This week we find out how northern beef breeds are starting to find a culinary market; some positive stories of environmental regeneration; and the struggle to find workers for this year's harvest.

This week farmers aggrieved over border restrictions including suggestions they fly sheep and hay interstate; we meet a man taking on an epic adventure and discover the extraordinary uses for algae.

Factories and abattoirs around the world have faced clusters of COVID-19 and we look at why. Plus, the fruit shop owner enjoying his plan B, and the women who get together to surf all year round.

Meatworkers vulnerable to coronavirus as outbreaks grow in Melbourne, working dogs selling strongly to livestock farmers, how seaweed is cutting emissions in cows and a fish and chip shop owner sourcing produce from an organic aquaponics farm.

This week: Hurricane' the Border Collie in training to claim the title of Australia's top farm dog, how one town is solving a rural aged care dilemma, and we look at border restrictions leaving regional hospital short-staffed for surgery, specialists and oncology.