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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Meg Powell |Fiona Broom |Kimberley Price
As egg-less shelves become the norm in supermarkets, people are looking to their backyards. Egg farmers are reporting a surge in demand for retired layers across the country, and in the Northern Territory, one free-range farm is hoping to ramp up production.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom |Meg Powell
A year of empty egg shelves has created a thriving backyard chicken industry. The shortages have also inspired a new egg farm in Australia's only region without local production. Demand is expected to continue to grow as egg supply chain issues linger. If you can't live without eggs, you're not alone. After 12 months of empty egg shelves in supermarkets, thousands of people across Australia are looking for ways around the shortages.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom
With crushing humidity hanging over the Top End, Northern Territorians are waiting desperately for the monsoon to kick off. The monsoon is dragging its feet; the rains usually turn up in December. It's leading to sticky conditions and heatwaves. And the industries that rely on the rain are starting to get worried. Recreational fishing is big business in the Territory, bringing in about $270 million a year to the local economy.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom
It takes a certain kind of person to want to live alone on a remote island for six months of the year. But life on Gabo Island is so magical, Sandy Duthie couldn't wait for the chance to do just that. The island and its iconic lighthouse are surrounded by one of the world's largest colonies of little penguins, and the rough sea is teeming with whales, seals and dolphins.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom
Program: Gabo Island: whales, a lighthouse and isolation47m ago47 minutes agoFri 25 Oct 2024 at 7:30amSpace to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom |Warwick Long
The cost of milk in major Australian supermarkets has dropped to its lowest in 14 years amid growing scrutiny over discount pricing. Coles and Woolworths reduced the price of its generic fresh milk last month by 5 cents, to $1.55 per litre. Discount supermarket chain Aldi held firm at $1.60, before matching the price in October. It's the lowest price for milk since January 2011, when Australia’s big three supermarkets slashed their prices to $1 a litre.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom
As recently as 30 years ago, many women in agriculture still avoided the "F" word. They hesitated to call themselves farmers. Victoria's 1891 census committee counted livestock, but not women farmers. And the practice of overlooking agricultural women on everything from farm business paperwork to official registers continued across the country. But after 100 years of feeling invisible, Australia's rural women had had enough.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Warwick Long |Fiona Broom
Australia's largest celery producer has been fined more than $150,000 after "deliberately" underpaying the migrant workers who planted and picked the popular vegetable. The Federal Court on Friday found the farm on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, failed to pay workers minimum wage, casual loading, overtime or public holiday pay between February 2020 and February 2021. One farm hand was only paid for 10 weeks out of 52 weeks of work.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
refresh.news | Warwick Long |Fiona Broom
Imagine working for a year and only being paid 10 weeks’ pay. This is what happened to a migrant worker at Australia’s largest celery farm. Powered by the Echo RSS Plugin by CodeRevolution.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom |Lani Oataway
As more Australians incorporate native ingredients into their foods, a regional brewery has taken that one step further. It's made a beer with native kangaroo grass, and describes it as smelling like a field on a hot day. The First Nations enterprise that supplies the ingredient says demand for their produce across the country continues to grow.
