Western Australia Country Hour

Grain Producers Australia hasn't given up on its plans to reduce grower levies paid to the GRDC, despite the proposal being knocked back by federal ag...

Western Australia Country Hour

Farmers in Western Australia's Midwest are calling on the Australian Defence Force to remove, or clarify the risk from, potential unexploded military...

Western Australia Country Hour

A WA marine biologist says she doesn't think temporary fishing closures in several select areas delivers results.

Western Australia Country Hour

Western Australia Country Hour

WA hop growers are gearing up for the 2026 harvest season, which is expected to start in coming weeks.

Western Australia Country Hour

Albany Woollen Mills' 101 years celebrated via shared love of blankets.

Western Australia Country Hour

The billion-dollar Kemerton refinery, near Bunbury, is set to be placed into care and maintenance, effective immediately, impacting almost 300 jobs. 

Western Australia Country Hour

There's a renewed push for a full review of the way fires are managed in regional Western Australia, after what volunteers are calling "decades of mis...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Kimberley Cotton Gin has just completed its first operational season. 

Western Australia Country Hour

Some Pilbara pastoralists are relieved after finally getting some rain.

Western Australia Country Hour

Fisheries minister Jackie Jarvis has hinted that the West Coast Demersal fishery may re open in the future to commercial fishers, if there is a signif...

Western Australia Country Hour

The head of the WA Fishing Industry Council says demersal fishers have been 'starved out' by the WA Government and forced into accepting an inappropri...

Western Australia Country Hour

The transition advocate, helping the WA sheep industry adjust to the closure of the live sheep trade by sea, says it takes time to assess how best to...

Western Australia Country Hour

One of the veterans of the WA livestock sector says for the first time in a long time there's some real optimism about the future of the sheep industr...

Western Australia Country Hour

A staple in the Aztec diet has become a viral TikTok trend sweeping social media — the "chia seed challenge" promising weight loss, improved gut healt...

Western Australia Country Hour

Carnarvon farmers are hoping a heatwave forecast for next week isn't as severe as the last one which has cost them about a million dollars in losses. 

Western Australia Country Hour

Home owners living next door to the world's biggest lithium mine, in the state's South West, are calling on the miner to create a home buyback or relo...

Western Australia Country Hour

The long term trend of people drinking less wine globally is evident in Wine Australia's export report for last year. 

Western Australia Country Hour

WA competitors performed well at Australia's biggest rodeo event at Tamworth, in north east New South Wales, over the weekend.

Western Australia Country Hour

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Luana has brought heavy rainfall to stations across the north.

Western Australia Country Hour

The charity group Farmers Across Borders is preparing to take truck loads of straw and hay to pastoralists in the Gascoyne and Murchison.

Western Australia Country Hour

Lumpy skin disease has been detected for the first time in the tourist hotspot of Bali, Indonesia.

Western Australia Country Hour

An adventurous American has trained and rode a horse across Australia.

Western Australia Country Hour

The Singaporean businessman behind WA's billion dollar Wagyu operation says China's tariff on beef exports should be viewed as an opportunity for Aust...

Western Australia Country Hour

A few hundred people participated in a car rally over the weekend over the controversial demersal fishing bans that came into effect at the start of t...

Western Australia Country Hour

Farmers and pastoralists in the Kimberley are facing financial losses and safety risks with a key weather radar expected to be offline for three month...

Western Australia Country Hour

WA volunteer fire fighters and local councils are investing in expensive Starlink satellite units to stay connected during bushfires.

Western Australia Country Hour

A company planning to bring competition to the WA grains industry, with a series of small transhipment ports in Western Australia, is calling on the s...

Western Australia Country Hour

A fruit grower in Carnarvon, 900 kilometres north of Perth, has harvested a huge mango.

Western Australia Country Hour

WA farmers delivering to the Geraldton Port are having their grain, particularly their wheat, discounted by up to $20 per tonne, compared to growers d...

Western Australia Country Hour

A handful of Western Australia's grain growers are still harvesting, taking off the remains of a record crop, which is likely to exceed, 26.5 million...

Western Australia Country Hour

As WA demersal fishers await government compensation for new fishing bans, commercial operators in the Kimberley fear they've been forgotten.

Western Australia Country Hour

Western Australia Country Hour

In WA's Gascoyne region it's the end of an era with the sale of Challa station, just near Mount Magnet, 600 kilometres north-east of Perth.

Western Australia Country Hour

The analysis around China's decision to impose a 55 per cent tariff on Australian beef exceeding the 205, 000 tonne tariff continues today.

Western Australia Country Hour

Today WAFIC CEO Melissa Haslam goes into a fair bit of detail about why she thinks the state government should re-consider permanent demersal fishing...

Western Australia Country Hour

Happy New Year...unless you earn a living catching demersal fish.

Western Australia Country Hour

Farewell 2025...and thanks for the record grain crop.

Western Australia Country Hour

Today you'll hear the latest on a serious bushfire in the Harvey Shire and you'll also hear from the owner of a pearl farm that's currently in the for...

Western Australia Country Hour

Today you'll get an update on fires, floods and cyclones in WA and the Top End.