Landline is Australia's only national agricultural television program covering stories from Australia's rural and regional heartland.
Where to Watch Landline • Season 2024
42 Episodes
Episode 1
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Episode 1What happened to El Nino? New technology giving lamb producers a boost; The brothers behind the largest organically certified land parcel in the world; plus fruit and vegetable farmers rebuilding from Cyclone Jasper.
Episode 2
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Episode 2Preparing animal industries for major disease threats; The plastic problem plaguing agriculture; Sweeter melons with a surprising benefit; plus saving the town vet clinic from closure.
Episode 3
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Episode 3Growing Australia's appetite for pistachios; A unique approach to tackling mental health challenges among dairy farmers; plus the farmers helping bring a fussy little bird back from the brink of extinction.
Episode 4
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Episode 4The entrepreneurial farmer determined to stay on his remote property despite incredible adversity; Scaling up production to get more jackfruit onto plates; plus shifting years of accumulated dung from under woolsheds.
Episode 5
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Episode 5Preserving farming land in a tourism mecca; Farmers reaping the rewards of taking water security into their own hands; the AFL superstar balancing footy and farming; plus a microscopic view of the tiny but mighty ant.
Episode 6
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Episode 6Tracing the barley in a bottle of beer to the paddock it was grown in; Differing opinions on dealing with dingoes; A heatwave harvest for WA wine grape growers; plus satellite mapping protecting old growth trees.
Episode 7
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Episode 7Nature's insurance policy against the deadly varroa mite; Worm castings finding favour in large scale farming; The tree planting project improving lives; plus remote graziers dealing with the pressure of life on the land.
Episode 8
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Episode 8We take you on a long weekend getaway without leaving home. Beautiful images from a remote fisherman in the Gulf of Carpentaria to the effect Australia's love of four-wheel driving has on our coastline.
Episode 9
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Episode 9Pinpointing the cause of mass cattle deaths onboard a ship bound for Indonesia; A controversial proposal to inject liquefied CO2 emissions deep underground; plus the remote grazing property defeating distance with technology.
Episode 10
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Episode 10Salmon giant Tassal expands to the Kimberley Coast; Regionally based medical schools helping to overcome rural doctor shortage; and burning invasive native scrub to create energy.
Episode 11
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Episode 11Livelihoods on the line ahead of planned changes to gillnet fishing; adding sparkle to Margaret River's wine region; plus an historic property dedicated to agricultural research commemorates the loss of two young men in WWII.
Episode 12
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Episode 12On the road with a mob of novice drovers; Growing the essential ingredient in gin; an historic tuna fishing clipper returns to Port Fairy; and vale to pioneering television chef Ian Parmenter.
Episode 13
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Episode 13Australian scientists fighting back against the destructive Fall armyworm; The impact of a desalination plant on aquaculture; Reviving the ancient trade for sea cucumber; plus the growing medicinal cannabis market.
Episode 14
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Episode 14The Prime Minister chats to Landline about all things agricultural at Beef 2024; Australian wine grape growers looking for a lifeline; plus controlling wild brumbies without culling.
Episode 15
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Episode 15The decline of dairy farming as producers leave the industry; India's growing appetite for Australian almonds; Supporting remote life-saving services; plus returning an island pastoral station to its natural state.
Episode 16
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Episode 16What phasing out live exports will mean for WA's sheep industry; Winemakers looking to India for new opportunities; Supplying food to the country's most remote communities; plus the butcher shop that never closes.
Episode 17
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Episode 17Apple growers working to invigorate the industry; Exporting lamb to the most vegetarian country in the world; The rising star of the commercial fisheries industry; and a home-grown spice industry in northern Australia.
Episode 18
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Episode 18Pastoralists in northern Australia see a good season go up in smoke; Selling Australian grown avocados to India; Art improving mental health and wellbeing in the bush; and pitching beef-centric innovations.
Episode 19
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Episode 19Australia's booming wool exports to India; The challenges of growing jojoba; Grey nomads finding work in agriculture; The rift between grain growers and small agricultural producers over aerial spraying.
Episode 20
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Episode 20Breeding Texas Longhorn cattle in Queensland; The skyrocketing price of olive oil; Training bucking bulls for competition; and a behind the scenes look into the lives of seasonal workers.
Episode 21
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Episode 21Selling more cotton to India; The 26-year long trial on how to best manage grazing cattle; plus the lovers of a legendary four-wheel drive.
Episode 22
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Episode 22Using flies as pollinators; Combining ancient burning practices and modern fire management; Seahorses - the fascinating indicators of marine health; and 100,000 millennials move to the country.
Episode 23
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Episode 23Farmers adapt to having less water for irrigation from the Murray-Darling Basin; The regional manufacturing success story improving food production; and the community effort to save one of Australia's great woolsheds.
Episode 24
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Episode 24The miracle fruit growers who dug up their farm and trucked the trees hundreds of kilometres; Waste not, want not - one region's quest to create a circular economy; plus the monthly climate and water outlook.
Episode 25
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Episode 25A new generation of hunters; A little-known piece of fire software saving lives and landscapes; The growing popularity of pick your own produce; and the importance of team sport on the social health of rural communities.
Episode 26
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Episode 26The recovery of oyster farming in Port Stephens; Innovation in the dairy industry; The booming interest in performance horses; and a classroom in the community.
Episode 27
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Episode 27Soaring farmland values; The beehive creating a buzz overseas; The careful science behind improving shelf life; and turning a biblical fruit into an Australian success.
Episode 28
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Episode 28Taking to the air to manage boggy paddocks; A regional city takes its soft drinks to the world; An uncertain future for some remote WA outback towns; and growing native grains for modern baking and brewing.
Episode 29
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Episode 29The challenge of producing honey during a big dry; Concerns over links between a common herbicide and Parkinson's disease; Turning weed trees into dingo sticks; plus the monthly climate and water outlook.
Episode 30
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Episode 30Dairy farming versus tree plantations in Victoria; The future of sugarcane; Childcare deserts in regional Australia; and 200 years of a Tasmanian brewery.
Episode 31
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Episode 31Blue mussels from Port Phillip Bay find new markets; Using detection dogs to hunt truffles in South Australia; and what it takes to be a champion woodchopper.
Episode 32
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Episode 32Uncovering an ecological time capsule on a famous beach; A solar-powered farm droid that weeds and seeds; The 'Fat Farmers' initiative boosting rural health; and growers swapping wine grapes for olives.
Episode 33
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Episode 33The revival of brussels sprouts; Native oysters helping to restore a struggling ecosystem; From France to a remote property on the edge of the Simpson Desert; and the pulse that could combat malnutrition in older people.
Episode 34
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Episode 34Marking two centuries of Australia's biggest beef producer; The market comes to the farm at the annual circuit sheep sale; Saving the rainbow bones of Lightning Ridge; and growing microalgae as a food additive.
Episode 35
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Episode 35How artificial intelligence is transforming agriculture; The thermal pools helping to keep some outback towns afloat; Saving the endangered sawfish; and lessons to be learned from Swiss farmers.
Episode 36
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Episode 36Greenhouse gas criticism puts the beef industry in the spotlight; Wool growers go to the polls; plus Mr Cattle Markets reporting on saleyard prices for over 30 years.
Episode 37
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Episode 37An alternative to sow stalls that could influence the global pork industry; The waste warriors diverting fruit and vegetables from landfill to hungry households; and the mates saving a town's last butcher shop.
Episode 38
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Episode 38Finding a balance between livestock production and dingo conservation; The organ transplant journey for rural and remote Australians; and the tiny bush school creating clean drinking water from air.
Episode 39
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Episode 39The super-fast agricultural waste solution; The lettuce growers who went from price takers to price makers; Native Swiss mountain sheep bred for wool and meat; and the Italian prisoner of war who made a farm in WA home.
Episode 40
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Episode 40The outback farmers moving away from wool to sheep meat; Striking the balance between mining rare earths and farming; Crunching the numbers on Speckled cattle; and professional fishers counting the catch.
Episode 41
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Episode 41A textbook season for the northern grain harvest; The fishing family going to great lengths to sell Australian caught tuna; and a better future for bobby calves.
Episode 42
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Episode 42A breakthrough that could save Queensland's iconic oyster industry; The Top End's mango queen; One woman, two horses and a 5500km journey; plus a chicken farm growing hope for its employees with disabilities. (Final for 2024)
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