Humans of Agriculture

Stuart Austin is currently the General Manager of Wilmot Cattle Company where he has been for the last 4 and a half years. Stuart describes himself as being passionate about the beef industry and food production and presently managing a growing natural grassfed beef operation in Northern NSW. Stuart believes in farming within what you can control, within his business that's grass, money and livest...

Happy birthday to us! It's 12 months since we released episode 1 of the Humans of Agriculture podcast and what a fun and exciting journey it has been chatting with so many incredible people in so many diverse areas of the agriculture industry. Welcome to episode 45, today's guest is Stacey Curcio. She is the founder and business owner of Cultivating Wellness. She grew up in Central Queensland and...

Welcome to episode 44 of the Humans of Agriculture podcast Emma Black is one of the co-founders and current Chief Operating Officer for Black Box CO. Growing up in Western Qld she has a passion and a deep love for the northern livestock industry. Emma has worked right across the beef supply chain from nutrition, consulting, to meat processing and now working with producers across Northern Australi...

It is a privilege to have Dr Terry McCosker on the Humans of Agriculture podcast this week. As I listened back to this episode I found myself madly scribbling notes and filled with a sense of optimism. There's one quote that sticks out from this episode: "I didn't try to convince anyone that didn't want to listen. I would only talk to people who wanted to listen and had an open mind. That took the...

Welcome to episode 42 of the HOA podcast. This week I'm sitting down with two Extraordinary Lucy's. There's a double meaning there because these girls are the brains and brawn behind ExtraOrdinary Outback stories. As journalists, they knew the job prospects weren't available to them in Dubbo, so they set about sharing stories themselves. The girls have an incredible background that has shaped thei...

Heidi Wright is the founder of Wright Social, supporting businesses to succeed in Australian Agri-Rural markets through smart social media strategy, brand positioning and lead generation tactics. She didn't grow up in Agriculture despite living in a farming community, her Dad, a dentist by trade was actually an entrepreneur and inventor as he brought Lightforce to life! Through a number of experie...

Kari Moffat has worked in the live export industry for the past 7 years, with a focus on South-East Asian feeder and slaughter markets. Her current position is Animal Welfare Assurance Manager for AUSTREX, overseeing the Export Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS), which ensures animal welfare in overseas markets.  Kari is currently the Chair of the Young Live Exporters Committee, an executive wi...

Welcome to episode 39 of the Humans of Agriculture podcast. It's our first discussion focussing on the Live Export Industry and one that i'm really interested to learn more about. Today i sit down with Ollie Thorne, A uni student who in 2020 took his remote learning to the high seas as he spent 9 months moving cattle across the world. Ollie gives an insight into what his life is like on board and...

Caitlin McConnell is an extremely high achieving young agriculturalist. With a corporate career in litigation law, she also sits on multiple organisations as the chair of the RNA Future Directions committee, non-executive director of the Future Farmers Network, Committee Member of the RNA and she still manages to find time to roll her sleeves up and help on the family grazing property. Caitlin's f...

Sam Fryer has an extraordinary story. Growing up in Hughenden in Far North Queensland he is a brother, a son, a father and his story of challenge and adversity is more than most of us will ever experience in a life time.  Sam has a unique outlook on life, it's his experiences that have shaped his perspective and his optimism is infectious and awe inspiring. Within this 50 minute episode are little...

Welcome back to the Humans of Agriculture podcast for 2021. We're kicking of the year with a few episodes talking about Mental Health with people sharing their own stories. It comes off the back of a successful Movember by the Humans of Agriculture team, but it also comes with the realities of friends struggling with their own mental health challenges. I took the chance late in 2020 to sit down do...

Brianna Casey is a pretty incredible person, her list of accomplishments is extensive – a CEO at the age of 23, a passionate ‘agvocate’ and people person. Brianna has spent her fair share of time on ‘The Hill’ in Canberra where she has succeeded in lobbying government to increase their support of the Food relief organisations and in turn some of the most vulnerable people in society. For me, Brian...

He's probably best known for his decades of tv screens in Melbourne as the resident weather presenter across multiple networks. But behind that, Rob Gell is an incredibly innovative thinker and extremely entrepreneurial guy. He has always been incredibly passionate about the nature, science and he is very realistic with his outlook on how we can make progressive change for the better. He shows no...

Today we're chatting with Steve Faulkner who is a viticulturalist with Oakridge wines based in the Yarra Valley. They're the unsung heroes behind that beautiful glass of rose or the flavours that jump out at you in your shiraz. Today's chat with Steve covers some technical aspects of wine making which is really interesting. Steve mentions in 2009 there was a significant shift in practices and weat...

Today we're venturing down to the asparagus marshlands of Koo Wee Rup to chat with James Terry. James is a grower, exporter, trader, people manager, logistics organizer – you name it and it could quite possibly be in his job description. I'm excited about this one, we're doing a bit of a pow wow as we chat all things asparagus and this year in particularly has been challenging from the aspect of w...

Todays guest is Justin Webb a co-founder of AgriWebb a farm management software that is supporting farmers to digitise their paddock records replacing the old paper book. Justin's story spans many countries, many businesses including founding several of these himself in the financial space with successful exits. Justin speaks openly and candidly about not being a farming kid but needing to step in...

G'day and welcome to episode 29 of the Humans of Agriculture podcast. I'm your host Oli Le Lievre and today we're sitting down with Fiona Baird. A few months ago Hugh Dawson said, 'Oli you've gotta chat to Fi'. Fi's an incredibly impressive person, I've never met her in person yet I feel like I already know her. Her journey potentially comes across as someone who was always destined for agricultur...

Welcome to Episode 28! It's been a chaotic few weeks with getting the episodes recorded and live as part of the Royal Melbourne Show. So we're back to one a week now so it's practically a holiday! Today I wanted to sit down with a good mate and pig Farmer from Northern Victoria. Tim Kingma or TK as he is more commonly known is one of the most passionate blokes I've ever come across. His K.I.S.S ap...

It's Episode 6 and our final episode as part of this collaboration with the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria as we have been celebrating the Royal Melbourne Show Online. Today's guest is Dr Joanna Newton, she has an incredibly impressive resume that this year grew with the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to agriculture through her advocacy and support of young people, vo...

Ed Gannon is the Editor at the Weekly times and is the Editor-in-Chief for NewsCorp Rural. He has been involved with the Royal Melbourne Show for many years, particularly as the MC and host of the Agribusiness Luncheon. Today we're finding out about Ed's story – From growing up on a dairy farm at Tinamba in Gippsland, he went off to Uni in Melbourne. By chance he was walking past the weekly times...

Today I'm sitting down with Father son duo – Ray and Dion Brook. Ray has been involved with the Royal Melbourne Show since his first visit as a young fella in 1959. I've found it incredibly interesting over these conversations that when we're chatting about what they'll miss it keeps coming back to missing seeing those friends and the chance to meet new ones. Before we jump right into it I'll quic...

Welcome to the Humans of Agriculture podcast in collaboration with the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) has proudly presented the Royal Melbourne Show since 1855. The Show is Victoria’s largest and most iconic annual community event, attracting around 450,000 visitors over 11 days each year and annually contributes more than $244 million in...

Welcome to the Humans of Agriculture podcast in collaboration with the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) has proudly presented the Royal Melbourne Show since 1855. The Show is Victoria’s largest and most iconic annual community event, attracting around 450,000 visitors over 11 days each year and annually contributes more than $244 million in...

Welcome to the Humans of Agriculture podcast in collaboration with the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) has proudly presented the Royal Melbourne Show since 1855. The Show is Victoria’s largest and most iconic annual community event, attracting around 450,000 visitors over 11 days each year and annually contributes more than $244 million in...

G'day! We're incredibly excited to be doing a six part series #CelebratingtheShow online this year. For only the third time in its 165 year history the Royal Melbourne Show is not going ahead at the Show grounds in Melbourne.  From Saturday the 19th of September and for the next 11 days we will be chatting with some pretty incredible people involved with the show to find out a bit more about what...