ABC Education Resources

Newly launched FUTURE FARMERS 7-part series about Australia’s agricultural industries. 

Future Farmers is a 7-part series about some of Australia’s important agricultural industries. In each episode we meet a young farmer or farming family, who show us around their farm and explain how their product is grown and processed. We also look at the way technology and science are used on the farm and how issues like sustainability are considered.

ACCESS the Future Farmers resource series HERE!

Over 100 resources for school lessons on agriculture, farming and the environment. Includes videos and games covering a wide range of topics such as beef production, wetlands, horticulture, wine, droughts, waterways, and Aboriginal land use. Supports Science, Geography, History, Technologies and English from years F to 10, mainly 3 to 10.

WINE/VITICULTURE EDUCATION

• Growing grapes and making wine

  Wine is an important agricultural industry in Australia, with over 1 billion litres of wine made here each year.

  

• ABC News: Wine-grape growing and climate change

  View vineyards of the Yarra Valley region of Victoria in a news clip from 2006 and discover a warming climate’s consequences for the region’s wine-grape growers.

  

• Landline: Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area: vineyards

  The McWilliam’s Wines Group has been growing wine in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) for almost 100 years.

  

• BTN: Ladybug pests

  The Asian ladybird, known as ‘harlequin’ or ‘harmonia axyridis’, is said to have saved the Californian wine industry from mealybug infestations on grapevines.