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Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world, with our team of specialist reporters covering the big issues of rural life.

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    • Economía y empresa

Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world, with our team of specialist reporters covering the big issues of rural life.

    Carving up where the money goes when you buy beef

    Carving up where the money goes when you buy beef

    When you buy beef, how much of the price you pay per kilo will actually reach the farmer who bred the animal it came from? It's not an easy question to answer, and as a quirk of statistics adds millions of uncounted cattle to the national herd size, who is making the money is about a lot more than supply and demand. 

    • 16 min
    Is Australia underestimating its bushfire risk?

    Is Australia underestimating its bushfire risk?

    Climate scientists have dug into an Antarctic ice core and found climate change is increasing the risk of significant fire seasons in the future meanwhile in Western Australia momentum is gaining to increase "right-way" fire practices as a fire mitigation strategy.

    • 11 min
    Do you know if the honey you're eating is 100% real honey?

    Do you know if the honey you're eating is 100% real honey?

    Fake honey is becoming more common overseas and Queensland Beekeepers Association says cheaper imports are undercutting Australian apiarists. 

    • 10 min
    Not all rain farmers get is good rain, and it can be enough to turn a good year bad.

    Not all rain farmers get is good rain, and it can be enough to turn a good year bad.

    It would be easy to think there's only one kind of rain for a farmer - good. But there is such a thing as spoiling rain, and it can make a big difference to the animals they're raising. 

    • 8 min
    The program that helped keep backpackers safe on farms has been quietly axed.

    The program that helped keep backpackers safe on farms has been quietly axed.

    With little warning, and no consultation, the federal government has ended Harvest Trail Services, a free program that for 26 years has helped safely connect working holiday makers with farmers, providing background checks on both parties. Now it's gone. 

    • 11 min
    Balancing the cost of renewable energy projects and the environment they're built in.

    Balancing the cost of renewable energy projects and the environment they're built in.

    Meeting emissions reduction targets requires new sources of clean energy, but ambitious state-government pumped hydro projects on undeveloped land has some rural Queenslanders asking 'at what cost?" While the merit of renewables against the cost to the environment gets weighed up, there's another hydro project that could instead see an aging mine site get a new lease on life. 

    • 19 min

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