A steady rural briefing on fuel, supply chains, and future shocks.
Country Today treats a fuel crisis as a plain rural systems story: thin reserves, closed supply lines, and the pressure that lands on rural Australians.

Practical news from the Australian farm gate.
Country Today reports Australian farming news through steady interviews with producers, analysts, industry bodies, and regional voices. Its strongest material sits where policy, commodity prices, fuel, fertiliser, water, biosecurity, and farmgate economics meet daily decisions on the ground.
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Country Today is a rural news program shaped around interviews, market detail, and the practical realities of Australian farming. It does not treat agriculture as a backdrop. Fuel, fertiliser, milk prices, rail freight, water, biosecurity, drought, and livestock markets are handled as operating conditions that affect real farms. The show is especially strong when a national issue lands hard in a regional setting. A conflict-driven fuel squeeze becomes a discussion about bulk diesel delays, refinery risk, supply relationships, and whether regional fuel storage is adequate. A rise in input costs becomes a question about urea, planting, dairy margins, and who can wait for contract negotiations. The format is plain and efficient. Libby Price introduces the day’s issues, then the program moves into short, focused interviews with producers, analysts, industry figures, and Country Today voices. The questioning tends to return to a few useful tests. What changes now? Who pays? How long will it last? Which farmers miss out? That gives the show a grounded rhythm even when the subject is policy-heavy. Recent editions cover rail freight, electricity transmission, renewable energy zones, mine rehabilitation, regional tech funding, poultry care rules, drought hardship loans, and the market impact of global instability. The show also keeps close watch on commodity signals, including wool prices, beef cattle volatility, rice harvest conditions, and Wagyu competition results. Technical subjects are allowed to stay technical. Genetic gain, varroa mite resistance, grass seed contamination in wool, heat tolerance in dairy cattle, and feed conversion in beef herds are explained through working examples rather than simplified away. The result is not flashy. It is useful. Country Today works best for listeners who already understand rural life but still want clear reporting on the pressures moving through farms, processors, supply chains, and government decisions. Its editorial centre is the farm gate, not the press release.
Made for: For Australian farmers, agribusiness workers, regional decision-makers, and rural listeners who want policy, market, and supply-chain news tied back to farm impact.
What sets it apart: Country Today stands out through its steady interview format and its insistence on practical consequences: costs, timelines, supply risks, production decisions, and who is left exposed.
The Country Today podcast focuses on breaking rural news, including daily interviews with farming and argi-business leaders, analysts, inventors, suppliers, politicians and much more. Hosted by Libby Price, who has spent over 30 years covering agribusiness, Libby is joined by a team of experienced rural-based journalists to present the show each day.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Country Today follows rural market shocks through to the farm-level costs, constraints and decisions they create.
Country Today turns rural economics into a chain of operational decisions. Libby Price moves through interviews with producers, industry representatives and researchers, asking how fuel reserves, fertiliser costs, milk prices, rain and commodity markets change what farms can…
Milk prices, mine water and wool indicators arrive before your coffee has cooled.
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A steady rural briefing on fuel, supply chains, and future shocks.
Country Today treats a fuel crisis as a plain rural systems story: thin reserves, closed supply lines, and the pressure that lands on rural Australians.
A measured rural briefing on costs, shortages, and market strain.
Country Today spends most of its time on a cluster of pressures that are already landing in rural life: the Iran-US ceasefire and what it may mean for input costs, horticulture worries about shortages, milk prices under strain in dairy, conflict around renewable energy in…
A wet-weather rural bulletin where prices, pasture, and farm events all move together.
Country Today starts by tying oil and fertilizer costs to Middle East conflict, then shifts into the rain across Victoria and the Riverina and the practical question of whether this is the autumn break.
Dairy, land, wool, and farm practice get a tight read on Australian agriculture.
Australia's farm sector comes through as under pressure, and the piece keeps the focus on the numbers. Milk production is still falling, the milking herd is expected to drop about 2% over the next 12 months, and rural property sales have hit a record low even as values reached a…
A measured rural briefing that connects productivity, resilience, and politics to real-world consequences.
Country Today follows the episode as it shifts from production gains to the harder questions around resilience, with the January fire and flash floods in Victoria's south-west still hanging over the story.

Farm business talk with coffee-shop honesty.





This episode covers Australia's fuel crisis due to the Geelong oil refinery fire, along with agricultural news including a Wagyu competition win and drought challenges for farmers.
This episode covers agricultural news including fuel delivery delays affecting farmers, dairy processor payments, a by-election with calls for a royal commission, and updates on sowing and harvesting seasons in various regions.
This episode covers agricultural news including farmer opposition to the V&I West electricity transmission line, updates on fertiliser prices, sustainable farming events, Varroa mite resistance, and genetic breeding in beef herds.
This episode discusses the economic impacts of the Middle East conflict on global growth and interest rates, featuring an interview with Commonwealth Bank global economist Joe Capuso about oil and fertilizer disruptions in the Straits of Hormuz.
Country Today host Libby Price covers Australia's fuel supply crisis through interviews with Tony Wood of the Grattan Institute, Dr John Coyne of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and grain consultant Colin Egan of Jumbuck Ag.
Libby Price's Country Today covers the multi-sector impact of Australia's fuel and fertiliser crisis on April 9th, featuring horticulture, dairy, grain input supply, renewables, and beef markets.
This episode discusses Australia's fuel crisis amid the Iran war, its impact on agriculture including drought-stricken dairy farmers, and explores regenerative agriculture's benefits.
This episode covers a renewed push for the Murray Basin Rail Project, the fuel crisis impact on dairy farmers, apiarist genetics for varroa mite resistance, red meat industry fuel urgency, and new wool contamination technology.
This episode covers breaking rural news including a new VFF president, the impact of the Middle East conflict on fuel and fertiliser supplies, and a recovery in the wool market.
A daily agricultural news podcast covering the impact of the Iran war on commodity prices, flood losses in Australia, fuel tax cuts, and bushfire recovery support.
A daily agricultural news podcast covering rural issues, including the impact of global conflicts on farming costs and domestic policy disappointments.
This episode covers the national fuel crisis from a farming perspective, including NFF's call for government underwriting of fuel and fertiliser, a new anthrax test, and a spike in haystack fires.
Libby Price discusses the new Australia-EU free trade agreement and its disappointing impact on agriculture with NFF President Hamish McIntyre.
A daily rural news podcast covering agricultural issues, including shipping cost increases, grain farming trends, and renewable energy on farms.
This episode covers challenges in the Australian almond harvest, the wool market, a water forum on the Murray-Darling Basin, and a Rabobank snapshot of farmer sentiment.
This episode covers the impact of the Iran war on Australia's fuel, fertilizer, and food supplies, featuring interviews with politicians and experts.
A daily rural news podcast covering agricultural issues, including fuel costs, livestock transport, sheep breeding, fire preparedness, rural theft, and dairy industry insights.
This episode covers challenges grain growers face with low fuel and fertiliser supplies, plus updates on lamb, sheep, and wool markets.
A daily agricultural news podcast covering the impact of global shipping and fuel crises on red meat exports, a new wheat trade deal, political trends, and a mobile skills lab roadshow.
This episode covers breaking rural news including fuel shortage, inflation, beef exports, and grain growing conditions.
This episode covers the annual Mountain Wiener cattle sales, with strong demand and higher prices for Herefords and steers, and discusses farmers' decisions on sowing and fertiliser spending influenced by global pricing and the Middle East conflict.
This episode covers the impact of Middle East conflict on red meat exports, early autumn break rain in Mallee, conservation incentives for farmers, and strong cattle sale prices.
Rain becomes the thing everyone has to work around.
Milk production is still sliding.
Australian farm production is up sharply over 20 years, with ABARES putting real growth at 45%.
This episode covers breaking rural news from the Evoque Ag Conference, including approval of virtual fencing, interviews with agribusiness leaders, and innovations in agriculture.
This episode covers the Australian bulk red wine crisis, EU free trade negotiations, dairy industry outlook, and the upcoming Wimmera Machinery Field Day.
This episode covers bushfire recovery efforts, dairy industry sustainability, wool market prices, a new sheep treatment, and a robotic dairy farm finalist.
Host Libby Price interviews Dr.
This episode covers Australia-EU free trade agreement negotiations, agricultural industry concerns, bushfire recovery efforts in Victoria, and updates on the international beef trade.
This episode discusses drought conditions affecting farmers in Victoria and South Australia, focusing on a new low-interest loan scheme in South Australia and featuring an interview with John Gladigo from Grain Producers South Australia.
This episode of Country Today covers agricultural news including a CSIRO study on virtual fencing in mixed farming, farmer suicide rates, the Dairy Farmers' Ball, fire assistance for farmers, and weaner sale results.
This episode discusses the summer bushfires in Australia, featuring an interview with CFA volunteer John Crozier about the lack of aircraft support during the Mount Mercer fire, alongside news on rural land values, livestock sales, and agricultural technology.
This episode covers the Whitley Times Farmer of the Year Awards, post-bushfire livestock management, calicivirus resistance, plant-based food labelling, and the lentil boom in Australian agriculture.
This episode covers the impact of bushfires on Australian agriculture, including an interview with farmer Matthew Plunkett about losing thousands of sheep and a hay convoy delivering feed to fire zones.