National Rural News Thursday August 20

In today's National Rural News:   ** Early Total Fire bans in the Northern Territory could be a sign of things to come in the southern states, ** A new reports shows the vast majority of productivity gains are happening in country Australia - with calls to start measuring national productivity by location, ** And positive news - at least for now - for Tasmanian potato farmers, as talks resume with the atate's largest processor - Simplot,  Plus the latest from the markets and more.  Subscribe to the National Rural News podcast: http://bit.ly/RuralNewsPodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.