Country Today - May 6th

Let’s take a look at the State Budget delivered by the Allan Labor Government yesterday. We’ll be joined by Editor of the Weekly Times, James Wagstaff. Farming organisations led by the National Farmers Federation have called on the Federal Government to introduce an immediate national mandate for ethanol and biodiesel to bolster fuel security. What does that mandate entail? To the Wimmera, where farmers have welcomed the recent rain and are now hoping for a window of dry weather to finish sowing and get the crops out of the ground and growing. It's not just skyrocketing fertilizer prices that are tempting grain growers to plant more pulses this season. There has still been a slow and steady trend to include pulses in cropping rotations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.