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Bush Telegraph

ABC Radio's Bush Telegraph is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia. Each day Bush Telegraph is heard at 11:00am on Radio National.

Stories from Friday, September 3, 2010

• Locusts and chemicals

  We've just had the first few days of spring and grain growers up and down the east of Australia are feeling bouyed by the prospect of a record-breaking winter crop harvest particularly wheat growers.

• Rural News

  Graziers in Far West New South Wales and North East South Australia are looking forward to a drenching this weekend.

• Handy with a harvester

  Do you fancy yourself as a bit handy around the shed?

• Bush Telegraph mailbag

• Music from Tony Faehse (not in podcast)

• Food on Friday - asparagus (the ultimate spring vegetable)

  
  No other vegetable signifies the arrival of spring like asparagus.

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