AgWatchers

Our fortnightly market update, supported by SproutAg.  In this podcast, we update on the tariff roundabout, record-high lamb prices, and the lack of a drought premium.   We also talk about our new grain trading simulator, which can be found here You can visit the SproutAg website by clicking here

In this podcast, we have Brad Hogg, a former professional cricketer originally hailing from Narrogin in WA and Rachael Oxborrrow an executive officer from Grain Producers Austalia.  Brad has been on the podcast in the past, chatting about his advocacy and discussing mental health in rural areas. On this podcast, he is here with Rachael to launch their new podcast series, the 'Mates Mental Health T...

On today's podcast, we chat with Dale Grey. Dale works with Agriculture Victoria and is our go-to when it comes to understanding weather and climate in an engaging and entertaining manner.  This podcast focuses on what is causing Victoria and South Australia to be so dry. We recommend you get onto his newsletters and YouTube channel, The Fast Break and The Very Fast Break (click here ).   Remember...

In this podcast, we have Troy Constance, the CEO of Sprout Ag, a finance brokerage firm. Troy is a fountain of knowledge on how financing and refinancing. So we picked his brains on financing, succession planning, interest rates and the planned unrealised capital gains and how it could impact farms.  Andrew also talks about his experience of picking up hitchhikers on the weekend.

We have renamed our fortnightly market update to make it sound cooler than it is. It is now AgWatchersX (Extra). This fortnightly update will update you on what is happening in the ag markets, focusing on Australia.  This week, we will discuss urea, wheat, cattle, sheep, and the Chinese/USA negotiations.  AgWatchers thank our supporter SproutAg, for helping make this podcast happen. Visit their we...

In this podcast, we have Natalie Collard from Farmers for Climate Action. In this podcast, we have a chat about the election results, their priorities for the government, electric hilux, batteries on farm, favourite movies, the upcoming FCA conference and a whole lot more. 

In this sobering episode, we invited back a previous guest, episode 106, John Blackburn AO. John, a former air vice-marshal and Deputy Chief of the RAAF.  These are turbulent times, and we have a chat about our defence, fuel supply chain and national food security. 

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia. This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, from an independent point of view. AgWatchers are the only independent agricultural market analysts covering the Australian market.  To make this podcast possible, our friends at A...

We have a chat with Kate Burke, who has been running her consultancy Think Agri for ten years. In this podcast, we talk about a range of topics including the current drought conditions in parts of the country. 

We invited Andrew Weidemann AM and Colin Bettles of Grain Producers Australia onto the podcast to talk about what their election priorities. They tell us what they would like to see the government do to assist Australian grain farmers.  In addition we also talked about autonomous machinery and what GPA were doing in this space.  GPA are running a webinar next week on how to navigate a minority gov...

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia. This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, from an independent point of view. AgWatchers are the only independent agricultural market analysts covering the Australian market.  To make this podcast possible, our friends at A...

On this podcast we have the agricultural minister Julie Collins onto the podcast to discuss a wide range of topics. Will ALP vote for live export reversal if the coalition wins, food security in Australia, how does Julie rate Littleproud, US beef into Australia and a whole lot more? We are apolitical as a podcast, and a few weeks ago, we had the shadow ag minister David Littleproud on the AgWatche...

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia. For this podcast we had Paul Holm, General Manager of Networks from AuctionsPlus on the podcast.  We talk about a huge range of market issues from the recent rains to the Trump tariffs.  This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agricu...

It's important to remember not to have all your eggs in one basket unless you are an egg farmer; if you have eggs, hold onto them because they are worth a fortune.  We invited friends of the podcast David Smyth and Tim Banfield of Euroz Hartleys onto the podcast to talk about something important: investing your money, thinking about retirement, and succession planning.  You can visit their website...

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia. In this podcast we cover, mutton pricing, Chinese cattle issues, very tight corn and wheat stocks and the ratio of grain and grassfed cattle.  This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, from an independent point of view. Ag...

We invite Stephen Bignell, Manager of Market Information and NLRS at MLA, to the podcast. We chat about everything from cattle/sheep numbers to the live export forecasts. 

We invite podcast regular Dr Ryan Hoiberg back onto the podcast for another chat. We discuss a whole range of tangents. 

Canola prices have crashed in Canada and Australia.  We've been getting a bunch of questions from producers and those in the industry about the effect of the Trump and Chinese tariffs on Canada and the impact that it will have on the canola trade. So a quick podcast was the quickest way to answer these. 

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia. In this podcast we cover off on local markets, then discuss the newest in a long line of Trump tariffs - but this time ones which could directly impact Australian agriculture.  This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, fro...

We have the Hon. David Littleproud MP on the podcast to give us a quick update on his views. We chatted about the live sheep phaseout (and its advertisements), the biosecurity tax, his views on the opposition, and a lot more.    Matt and Andrew then had a quick chat after David had to leave, including announcing our new competitive adventure. 

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia.  This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, from an independent point of view. AgWatchers are the only independent agricultural market analysts covering the Australian market.  To make this podcast possible, our friends at...

It's been a year since 'Just a Farmer' was released; it has been well received and has an 8.1 score on IMDB, coincidentally the exact same rating as Trainspotting. We got Leila and Sean McDougall on to talk about everything from award ceremonies to the role that we will play in the next film.  Just a Farmer is now available on Apple TV. If you want to support a great movie highlighting rural Austr...

We have a chat with international man of mystery Martin Murray, about his recent trips to Rome and Berlin representing young Australian farmers, and him meeting some peasants. We also go onto a huge tangent about Matt's new purchase - a Taipan X rifle. Is Matt becoming a doomsday prepper?

In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia. This week we cover a huge range of topics covering cattle, sheep, wheat, oilseeds and the impact of middle eastern peace on freight markets.  This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, from an independent point of view. AgW...

In this podcast, we chat with Will Barton, CEO of Gundagai Meat Processors. Will is one of us, a data nerd. In this podcast we have a chat about the lamb and sheep meat industry, and how technology and data are adding back.