In this episode of Turf’n’Surf, we’ll look at how holiday makers are harvesting new holiday experiences, how a crop of Queensland agripreneurs are reaping the rewards of an innovative approach to their business, and how Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries is sowing the seeds for a vibrant agritourism industry that allows holiday makers and tourists to taste farm life.

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Taste Farm Life

In this episode of Turf’n’Surf, we’ll look at what can happen to a producer when mother nature vents her fury, the assistance that is available to producers to get them back on their feet following a natural disaster and how they can access that assistance, and the Queensland Government disaster recovery initiatives.

QRIDA - Weathering the storm

In this episode of Turf’n’Surf, we’ll look at a Queensland Government initiative that is assisting graziers improve the condition of poor and degraded land in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas.

GRASS - A truly green solution

In this special Beef 2021 episode of Turf’n’Surf, we’ll look at the importance of Beef 2021 to producers and the beef industry, and explore Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries’ sizzling steak in Beef 2021.

DAF's sizzling steak in Beef 2021

This episode of Turf’n’Surf, looks at the impact of varroa mites on the honey industry overseas, how Biosecurity Queensland has successfully eradicated varroa mites detected in Townsville, and what the Queensland Government is doing to take the sting out of varroa mites.

Eradicating varroa mites - the sweetest success.

This episode of Turf ‘n’ Surf looks at how Queensland’s Stocked Impoundment Permit Scheme, known as SIPS, supports the stocking of registered freshwater impoundments.

SIPS - A licence to fish

This episode of Turf ‘n’ Surf looks at why all Queensland agribusinesses, commercial fishing businesses and agriculture labour hire companies that employ seasonal workers need a workplace health management plan and what happens when a seasonal worker tests positive to COVID-19.

COVID-safe farming

How Queensland's 'Agripeneurs' are merging agriculture with technology to get AgTech onto their farms, innovatively harvesting modern technology to keep their businesses productive and competitive

AgTech: Where Agriculture meets Technology

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Food pilot plant - Making food dreams come true

This episode of Turf ‘n’ Surf looks at how Queensland’s producers are managing climate events like drought, how science is helping producers adapt and what the Queensland Government is doing to support the state’s producers through the Drought and Climate Adaptation Program (DCAP).You’ll hear from a 40-year veteran of Queensland’s agriculture industry, Rick Sutton, who runs three farms in the Lockyer Valley; Dr Chelsea Jarvis, a research fellow from the University of Southern Queensland’s Centre for Applied Climate Sciences and Neil Cliffe, Senior Industry Development Officer with Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.Find out how the DCAP is helping producers adapt and better manage drought and climate impacts.

DCAP: Filling the missing link

Welcome to Turf ‘n’ Surf, a podcast that tells stories in Queensland’s farming, fishing, biosecurity and forestry sectors.This episode is about how Queensland’s banana growers, the banana industry and the Queensland Government are managing the impacts of Panama disease tropical race 4, known as Panama TR4. Panama TR4 is a serious fungul disease of bananas and is one of the greatest threats to worldwide banana production.

Bending banana's battle against Panama TR4

This episode is all about the battle to prevent African Swine Fever from reaching Queensland shores and what we can all do to protect the state's multi-million dollar industry

African Swine Fever: the fight to save Queensland's bacon

Researchers at Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries have designed and built bespoke structures, called fish attractors, to create realistic habitat for fish at some of Queensland’s dams.

Dam of dreams

This episode focuses on the threat the fast growing invasive plant miconia poses to Far North Queensland’s ancient and spectacular rainforests.

Miconia: "Purple plague's" threat to the Daintree

In this episode we look at how Queensland’s strawberry growers are recovering after the 2018 tampering crisis.

Queensland's Strawberry Industry: More Strawesome than ever

The official podcast of Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Turf 'n' Surf explores issues, trends and innovations in Queensland's farming, fishing, forestry and biosecurity sectors.