South Australian Country Hour ABC Radio

Food producers concerned over workforce shortages as changes loom for the Pacific Australia Labor Mobility (PALM) Scheme, research from AgriFutures shows that Australian consumers overwhelmingly trust primary producers, and some South Australian olive growers say frost damage means 2024 may be our state's worst season yet.

Hopes a $1.6billion network sharing deal between Optus and rival TPG could bring greater coverage and competition to rural areas, professional hunters employed to kill feral deer in the state's plantation forests to be allowed to process the remains into meat products, and the wine industry calls on the Federal Government for an $86million package to support unprofitable growers to transition out of wine grapes.

As global prices soar, one of Australia's largest olive oil producers doesn't expect a good harvest until 2025, GPSA launches a young grains producer committee to help foster the next generation of leaders and policy makers, and demand for seedless fruit varieties grows as the genetic breeding technology needed to create them is rapidly improving.

The wool industry calls on Australians to make submissions opposing a new European labelling system for natural fibres, Australian Grape and Wine supports the inclusion of wine in the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, and CCW Cooperative responds to Accolade Wines' offer to buy out Riverland grower contracts for red wine varietals.

Federal Trade Minister Don Farrell visits the Riverland to meet with growers and winemakers amid an industry crisis, south east sheep producers discuss concerns around the proposed phase-out of live exports from Australia, and a survey of 300 SA grain producers finds around one third are in the process of succession.

SA's dairy industry unveils a plan to grow its milk production by an extra 200 million litres over the next five years, the SA No Till Farmers' Association says its services are no longer needed and will wrap up after 25 years, and the seafood industry claims the government's proposed biosecurity protection levy could send businesses in the sector to the wall.