Country Today - July 16th

Telstra’s nationwide outage last week has renewed calls for domestic roaming to be mandated. With no peace deal with the war with Iran, there are renewed calls for the Federal Government to create a long term fuel strategy for diesel. Farmers have long known of the benefits of dung beetles improving soils health and pasture productivity. Now Australian research has found the beetles can cut methane emissions from cattle manure by 85 percent. A two part special on feed lotting. First the trend for grain growers to cash in on high lamb prices. And then to beef feed lotting. Queensland and New South Wales are considered the feed lotting kings, but Victoria now has more than 65,000 in feedlots. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.