Give me a campus among the gum trees

How do you produce a seriously juicy steak? What's the difference between brewing a lager and a pale ale? How can students produce award winning wine? What role do drones have in the future of farming? In this special episode of Eavesdrop on Experts, the team hits the road to meet the agriculture experts based in the rural town of Dookie in northern Victoria, where the University of Melbourne has a campus. They bring a unique mix of expertise from the chemical molecules responsible for flavour to a knowledge of the history of age-old food practices, and explain how these can be reinvented for the 21st century and a more sustainable future. Recorded: 18 October 2017 Interviewers: Dr Andi Horvath and Claudia Hooper Producers: Dr Andi Horvath, Chris Hatzis and Claudia Hooper Editor: Chris Hatzis Audio engineer: Arch Cuthbertson Banner image: Claudia Hooper/University of Melbourne