Agriminders Podcast
1) Saving for a rainy day
How can Australia make better use of its vast underground water storage? The practice of water banking injects excess surface water into underground aquifers during wet times, to be used during dry ti...Show More
2) Farm in a box
Australia is the second most urbanised country in the world after Singapore and the distances to bring food from the regions to the cities are huge. How can we bridge the increasing geographical and p...Show More
3) Milk or Mylk
Are plant-based "milks" better for you than dairy milk? A 2020 study from the Grains & Legumes Nutrition Council found that the nutrients in plant-based milks aren’t an adequate substitute for dairy m...Show More
4) A silver spoon for the starving millions
Is Australia a major player in global food production? Or has it, or should it, take advantage of its unique provenance story and become a specialist supplier of niche products to a growing global and...Show More
5) The customer is always the customer
How can farmers make informed production decisions based on food trends? For farmers looking to expand their production to include value-added products, it can be hard to distinguish between legitimat...Show More
6) Farmer wants a life
How do farmers in remote communities socialise when their closest neighbour might be hundreds of kilometres away? In the eyes of most Aussies - living in the bush and mateship seem to go together – bu...Show More
7) Natural disaster planning in the dairy industry
The response to a natural disaster, as planned by state and federal governments, have been implemented, tried and tested during the 2020 bushfires...but how did they go? Our agriminder is the appointe...Show More
8) Life after the bushfires for our animals
Our animals and wildlife have been devastated by the fires, and for those that have survived, the aftermath of having dead and injured animals on our lands also poses a significant risk. Host Chris Ru...Show More
9) Recovery from the soil upwards
What can we learn about bushfires and the management of our land from our Indigenous people, who have managed bushfire with bespoke methodology for 40,000 years? Our agriminder Soil Scientist Phillip...Show More
10) Studying the behaviours of bushfires
Fire looks random but there is a scientific dedication to understanding how it behaves. Host Chris Russell speaks with leading Fire Scientist and former forest fire-fighter, Dr Thomas Duff, about his ...Show More