I HAD a wonderful childhood, growing up on a farm, enjoying the open space and clean air. There's nothing more I could've wanted - or so I thought.

THE Royal Adelaide Show can be chaos - a thousand flashing lights, sounds and announcements all trying to attract your attention, not to mention the people walking everywhere, in all directions, all the time.

GOVERNMENTS across the country deserve credit for starting to take action to protect farmers from the threat of animal activists storming onto their properties.

While opponents of SA's moratorium on GM crops might be on the verge of winning the regulatory battle, the fight to maintain social licence is ongoing.

THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on climate change and land use made headlines last week, with many of them rather unfair on agriculture.

The pastoral act review gives us a long-overdue chance to modernise the regulatory framework governing the state's pastoral areas.

I WAS rather surprised to learn just how many vacant general practitioner positions there are across regional SA at the moment. I would never have thought it would be as high as 62.

SOMETIMES, it can feel like there's not a lot of good news to be found in the world we live in, but that's certainly not the case this week.

Did you know SA has the highest economic reliance on its regions of all the states, but also the highest concentration of its population in the city?