Country Today - March 18th

You’ll hear from the new federal deputy leader of The Nationals. Darren Chester has also been given the portfolio of Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.  As many farmers are discovering, it's nigh on impossible to find urea fertilizer. Travis Hair of Crop Opti services in Horsham is clean out. We’ll take you to the Genetics Australia conference in Geelong where farmers from around the world are in the room to hear the latest in gene editing. To the potential for artificial intelligence in agriculture. Instead of asking if we should bother with Artificial Intelligence, maybe we should be asking, what happens if we’re the only ones left who don't? Farmers are borrowing more money to re-invest in their businesses. Leading the lending race is broad acre cropping.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.