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.  

Western Australia Country Hour

Let's find out how feral your Christmas is going to be this year... 

Western Australia Country Hour

Unusual changes to salinity levels and water flows have been observed on farms beside South32's Worsley mine.

Western Australia Country Hour

Commercial fishing operators in Western Australia haven't given up hope of changing the state governments mind on demersal bans.  

Western Australia Country Hour

A new national gun buy-back scheme has just been announced.

Western Australia Country Hour

Sino–American company Talison Lithium has ruled out a rail link to the world's biggest lithium mine at Greenbushes in West Australia's South West regi...

Western Australia Country Hour

More fires are in Western Australia's grain growing areas. A volunteer fire fighter has lost his life and hundreds of sheep have been lost. 

Western Australia Country Hour

The head of the Kimberley Pilbara Cattlemen's Association is hoping any future changes to national firearms laws don't ignore the fact farmers and sta...

Western Australia Country Hour

The state's main grain handler, CBH Group has today revealed a surplus of $208.3 million for the last financial year, ending September 2025.

Western Australia Country Hour

A commercial fishing family in Augusta said they are losing more than just a business after last week's announcement by the State Government.

Western Australia Country Hour

Western Australia is on track for a record-breaking grain harvest this season, but there is mounting concern over potential delivery bottlenecks and s...

Western Australia Country Hour

The Australian honey industry is investigating the purity of imported honey.

Western Australia Country Hour

For students in rural and remote areas of Australia, the social media ban takes effect just as the long school holidays begin.

Western Australia Country Hour

Western Australian growers delivered 3.9 million tonnes to the CBH network over the past week, pushing total receivals past 15.2 million tonnes.

Western Australia Country Hour

Major WA livestock processor, V&V Walsh has announced it will offer forward contracts over $10 per kilo for trade and supermarket lambs over the Chris...

Western Australia Country Hour

Australian grain growers have overwhelmingly said they want a reduction in the compulsory levy they pay for grains research and development.