Country Today - April 24th

Country Today has been at Grounded, the regenerative farming festival held at Deansmarsh, in South West Victoria. First you’ll hear from a Pig farmer Belinda Hagan of McIvor Farm about how regenerative practices are creating a healthier herd. Then a superfine merino farmer in the New England high country who turned a basic need for livestock shade into a resilient business where sheep and timber grow together. Planting one quarter of a million trees on a working sheep farm. Matt Haggerty travelled all the way from Western Australia's Central Wheatbelt, to talk about his use of what’s called Natural Intelligence Farming and growing barley for craft beer production. The talk of the Grounded festival was how regenerative farming is only likely to grow with the Middle East crisis highlighting agriculture's reliance on artificial fertilizer. To the weekly wool report and yet again we’ve seen a significant increase, making this the highest the wool market has been in years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.