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.

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.

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.

  Western Australia's only commercial sheep milk and cheese farm plans to expand.

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. 

Western Australia's beekeepers are now stepping up to help drought affected farmers in South Australia.

A new program designed to support the mental wellbeing of veterinarians has secured the funding it needs for a national roll-out. 

Country town residents relive AC/DC/Sherbet tours of the 1970s.

Australia has lifted biosecurity restrictions on beef imports from the United States. 

The WA record price for lamb was broken at the Katanning sheep market today reaching $320 per head. 

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.

Western Australia's first targeted aerial cull of feral deer has started in the state's south. 

The Kelpies for Kids project will feature on Landline this week. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

A farmer who died in a tragic accident in WA's South West last week has been remembered by his family as an "absolute larrikin who didn't have a mean bone in his body."

A new lithium mine officially opened in WA's northern Goldfields.