Countrywide ABC Podcasts

A "really serious outbreak" of fire ants in Southern Queensland, industry body Australian Grape and Wine calls for wine to be included in the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, and Australia's oldest operating textile mill turns 150 this year. 

The supermarket giants faced a public grilling this week, suppliers of garden plants to Bunnings say treatment from the company left them feeling like "slaves", and it's been 20 years since Shrek the sheep was finally shorn after 6 years on the run. 

Supermarket review interim report handed down, what goes into growing Australia's largest corn crop and how do you know your extra-virgin olive oil is really extra-virgin?

Australian producers forced to accept cheap chicken prices, Australian wine producers are popping corks and clinking glasses with tariff news, and everyone loves parfait but would you eat one made from lab grown quail?

Cattle deaths on a live export ship to Indonesia, a price drop in fresh ginger and a Tassie company partnering with seaweed farmers to produce a climate-friendly milk.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.