Pip Courtney
Pip became the host of Landline in 2012 after joining the program in 1993.
The daughter of well-known Tasmania print journalist and editor Michael Courtney, she joined the ABC as a cadet in Hobart in 1986.
After beginning her career in news, she combined her love of journalism and agriculture when she joined Landline, moving to Brisbane in 2003.
Pip has won numerous awards for her agricultural journalism including a Queensland Media Award for Excellence in Rural Journalism, the Rabobank Star prize for rural broadcasting (Qld), the National Rabobank Star prize and the International Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting for her 2011 two-part feature on the coal seam gas industry in Queensland.
In 2018 Pip was inducted in the Queensland Press Club’s Rural Journalism Hall of Fame.
Latest by Pip Courtney
Big risk pays off for Queensland graziers who switched from cattle to goats
During the last drought, a family of Queensland beef producers did something radical to survive — they sold their cattle and used the money to buy goats. Lots of goats.
Why this woman's cotton sells for a premium, and how it has a built-in way of exposing fakes
A major NSW cotton operation says it is producing the world's first verified, carbon-positive cotton, for which global companies with sustainable sourcing targets are paying up to $80 more for a bale.
Farmers want to export 'climate-smart' rice — but an old law stands in their way
Rice is agriculture's second-largest methane emitter, surpassing beef, but a small group of growers is producing a rain-fed crop, with a smaller environmental footprint. The problem is they can't export it.
From the shed to the dining room, long-retired wool-sorting tables given new life and purpose
Queensland carpenter Jason Porter is giving precious pieces of farming history new life — and new jobs — as glass-topped dining tables.
Why these cotton farmers are ditching their siphons and going 'bank-less'
Cotton growers have used siphons for decades to transfer water from channels over a bank onto the crop, but a few farmers are making the switch in an effort to save water.
Australian agribusinesses utilise innovative strategies to empower farmers in Laos
Two Australian agribusinesses have come up with highly unusual ways to help poor farmers in Laos.
How an Australian charity is breaking the poverty cycle, one cow at a time in Cambodia
A retired Queensland cattleman and a media personality from Adelaide are working together to tackle rural poverty in Cambodia.
The decision to save her sheep from slaughter paid off handsomely for this wool producer
A Tasmanian woolgrower's radical move to stop selling older sheep for slaughter has delivered an unexpected bonus: a New York ethical fashion retailer is paying double for her superfine wool.
How this outback abattoir was able to attract workers amid the labour shortage
Critics predicted Central Queensland beef producers Blair and Josie Angus would struggle to attract staff to run their $30 million abattoir, but nearly 40 staff have signed on.
Serena's family stood to lose 'almost everything', but their risky new venture is now paying off
A Queensland family have won a prestigious national award just five years after their prawn farming operation was wiped out by disease.
Planting trees on grazing land was ridiculed in the 60s but John Fenton left an environmental legacy
When the late John Fenton inherited land in1956, he raised eyebrows by building wetlands and planting forests, creating shelter for stock and transforming a near treeless farm into an environmental jewel.
Introducing the lamb with a high marbling score that promises to 'knock the Queen's socks off'
Selling for a record $100 a kilogram earlier this year, the little-known Hampshire Down lamb is being touted as the next best thing to Wagyu beef, with a similar marbling and delicious taste.
With plenty of fish in the sea, these chefs are experimenting with the weird and wonderful on offer
Could fish offal be the new frontier in restaurant dining? Australia has over 5000 species of fish so why do we eat so few?
Technology has ended 'wild west' of unlawful water use in NSW, says water cop
Satellites, drones and other tech now provide data on a daily basis to measure the flow, use and storage of water, the movement of soil — and even if crops are growing when they shouldn't be.
Is this Australia's first meat workers' choir?
Pacific Islanders working at a Brisbane abattoir are using singing to keep homesickness at bay.
'It smells like money': Would you use treated sewage to fertilise your crops?
A groundbreaking trial which started 20 years ago fertilising Queensland cotton farms with treated human sewage now has more than 100 farmers on its waiting list.
They say money doesn't grow on trees. Try telling that to this farming couple
Barbara and James McGeoch's old dairy farm near Toowoomba is a perfect tree nursery from where they've built a thriving business with clients as far away as China and the Middle East.
'We were actually killing farmers': New quad bike safety laws to come into effect on Monday
Controversial national quad bike safety standards aimed at reducing Australia's stubbornly high death toll take effect on Monday.
'She'd just about slipped away': The story of Madame Weigel, Australia's forgotten woman
How does a successful businesswoman who was a household name in Australia and New Zealand for close to a century nearly slip from history's grasp?
'Farmers are desperate for workers right now': Labour companies urge the government to act on the labour crisis
Under the federal government's Seasonal Worker Program, low-skilled workers from Timor-Leste and nine Pacific countries can fill jobs in agriculture when there aren't enough Australians to meet seasonal demand.
No supermarkets, only Facebook: Is this the new way to buy meat?
A farmer's love of social media inspires her to set up an online business, saving her struggling beef operation and giving 50 farmers a new, secure market.
How this family thought outside the box — before it collapsed — to own their dream farm
For this Queensland couple, tackling a rundown and "pretty wild" property in Central Queensland has been a challenging path to becoming graziers.
This war horse rode four wounded Anzacs to safety in World War I
Hero war-horse 'Bill the Bastard' helped take four injured soldiers to safety in the Battle of Romani. He's now being immortalised, along with his rider, with a bronze statue.
Robots bring futuristic, 'digital-savvy new agriculture' opportunities to farming
A Queensland couple's decade-long push to lead the world in the production of agricultural robots has received a multi-million-dollar funding boost.
Threat of losing public trust heading towards Australian agriculture 'like a freight train', social licence expert says
Social licence expert Alison Penfold says a host of issues testing the public's trust in farming are heading "like a freight train" towards most sectors in Australian agriculture.