The Australian Ag Podcast

Lumpy skin disease is under the microscope again. Listen as the top minds in cattle discuss Indonesia's track record reporting lumpy skin disease, Australian biosecurity and what's next for beef and lamb. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grove Juice chief executive Greg Quinn and James Wagstaff discuss getting the best bang for your farming buck, ongoing worker shortages and demand for Australian agricultural assets. NSW lamb producer Fiona Aveyard leans in ‘Over the Fence’ to chat about demand for premium lamb in a deflated commodity market.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National Irrigators Council chairman and southern NSW farmer Jeremy Morton discusses potential water buybacks, permanent plantings and the outlook for irrigators. Gloucester NSW dairy farmer Graham Forbes leans in ‘Over the Fence’ to chat about fresh milk prices and how he’s working hard to extract the greatest margins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hancock Agriculture chief executive Adam Giles and James Wagstaff discuss free-trade agreements, animal welfare and what’s ahead for the iconic S Kidman and Co brand. Texas Angus’ Ben and Wendy Mayne lean in ‘Over the Fence’ to chat about potential bull price fortunes in a deflated cattle market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cattle Australia chairman David Foote sits down with James Wagstaff to discuss everything from deflated cattle returns to retail beef prices to market access. We also introduce our Over The Fence segment with leading farmers addressing the issues affecting them at a grassroots level; this week we catch up with West Australian grain grower Barry Large. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

This week on the The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff is joined by co-host Jackson Hewett and the Managing Director, from Warrendale Wagyu, Tom Richardson. Warrendale Wagyu, is Britain's largest wagyu operation and currently supplies two of the nations' biggest retail chains. They discuss the wagyu market in Europe as cost of living pressures rise and as the Australian-UK Free Trade Agre...

On this week’s episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff and Jackson Hewett chat with Matt Palise, the managing director of Red Rich Fruits, on the challenges and opportunities in the horticulture space. It follows the federal government’s recent changes to the Pacific Labour Mobility Scheme, which has left growers and industry seething. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

On this week's episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff is joined by The Weekly Times dairy reporter Alex Sinnott. We chat all things milk, with the milk price expert, Richard Lange, from Milk2Market, including last weeks' release of milk prices for the 2023/2024 milk season.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Australian Ag Podcast, we take a look back on a panel discussion from the 2023 Global Food Forum, which looked at investment expectations in a time of increasing interest rates and how the agriculture industry is adapting their strategies to ensure future returns. This panel features Liam Lenaghan, Managing Director, goFARM Australia, Kristina Hermanson, Head of APAC and Afr...

Nicole Saunders and her husband Brendan jumped the ditch from New Zealand to Gippsland five years ago and have gone from dairy sharefarmers to farm owners, increasing turnover a whopping 10-fold in that time. The couple, who milk 1600 cows across three properties totalling 780 hectares, took out the top gong at The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year awards in February.  In this episode, Nicole...

Nuveen Natural Capital is an investment arm of the massive US teachers pension fund TIAA. With $2.2 billion under management here in Australia, Nuveen is the third largest investor in Australian ag. We talk to their head of APAC and Africa Kristina Hermanson about the global investment landscape for agricultural assets, where she sees the next opportunities and why natural capital is becoming such...

Cattle prices have been plummeting, and Wagyu has been particularly hard hit with prices down as much as 50% in six months. How is the industry responding? To find out what is going on, Weekly Times editor James Wagstaff and I dropped in on the Australian Wagyu Association annual conference where we caught up with AWA President Charlie Perry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carbon sequestration is becoming a hot topic in the ag industry, with the value of an ACCU, or Australian Carbon Credit Unit forecast to soar, according to a recent report by National Australia Bank. That could be a handy addition to a farmer’s bottom line but the industry is still in its infancy, with new players emerging all the time, and a confusing barrage of information about how the rules wo...

It has been a big year for agribusiness, with record highs set for commodities and farmland. But the big question is whether the good times can go on? To find out what 2023 has in store, hosts Jackson Hewett and James Wagstaff talk to Andrew Whitelaw and Matt Dalgleish from agribusiness analytics firm Episode3. Produced and edited by Eartha Hewett See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

Australia’s shearing industry is stretched to breaking point as it struggles to service a burgeoning national flock. A perfect storm of a wet spring, a jump in Covid cases and a competitive labour market is making it nearly impossible for some producers to secure shearers on time or even at all with the industry looking to India in the hope of sourcing staff. The current shearing award is $3.47 a...

Livestock prices have turned significantly downwards, with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator losing 150c/kg in recent weeks and down 240c/kg compared to last year. To find out what’s going on, we talk to Tim McRea, chief economist at Auctions Plus. ALSO Bonny and Molly Penfold from Four Daughters sisters talk to Bianca Tarrant, a cattle farmer in Baryulgil NSW and founder of meat subscription bus...

2015 Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year Grant Sims runs a mixed cropping business near Echuca and has gone from strength to strength since winning the award. Now he gives talks across the country on how to optimise yields by caring for the soil.  PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Tom Middlebrook, who runs a dairy farm near Gloucester, NSW. After being hit hard by the Millennium Drought, T...

2022 was one of the most unusual years for agriculture in recent memory and the conditions that have caused such upheaval are set to continue. Add to that a slowing global economy and 2023 will be a year to watch. Rabobank’s head of food and agri research for ANZ, Stefan Vogel tells reveals what’s in store. PLUS Bonnie and Molly Penfold from Four Daughters will be talking to Shine Award winners fo...

The drenching received by the Southeast of the country continues to make cropping a nightmare as fields are flooded or become bogged, and water affected crops spoil. To find out how it is affected the grain industry, and what farmers can do, even at this late stage, we talk to Andrew Weidemann from Grain Producers Australia. PLUS Bonnie and Jemima Penfold from Four Daughters will be talking to Cou...

The National Farmers Federation has come out strongly against the government’s new industrial relations bill which puts multi-employer bargaining at its core. NFF chief executive Tony Mahar believes it will be bad news for the agricultural supply chain. PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Josh Murray of Josh’s Rainbow eggs, who turned a hobby business he started as a 9 year old into a major su...

Following Labor’s first budget, which saw a number of cuts to programs previously announced by the Coalition, David Littleproud says the government has “ripped the guts out of regional communities”. PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Jessica Radel, a young woman who is blazing a trail as head stockwoman on Wave Hill station in the NT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How much would you pay for a kilo of top quality lamb chops? Well Tom Bull of Kinross Station reckons his are worth 100 bucks a kilo, saying his Hampshire Downs lambs has marbling traits that put them on a par with the best cuts of beef. It's a clever strategy to go super-premium when meat consumption is going down. PLUS Bonnie and Mollie Penfold of Four Daughters are chatting to Hugh Dawson,the 2...

Australia looks likely to join more than 100 countries around the world, including the EU, the US, and Indonesia pledge a 30 per cent global cut in methane emissions by 2030. The Opposition says it will ‘put an end to the BBQ’, and drive up prices, but will it be that bad? We talk to a beef farmer who is a member of Farmers for Climate Action. PLUS the Four Daughters beef sisters talk to Nicole Sa...

After a covid hangover that pushed prices to a ten year low, the outlook for almonds is looking up. Paul Thompson, chief executive of Select Harvests, on the prospects for the almond industry. PLUS in our new segment on young innovators in agriculture, the sisters behind Four Daughters beef talk to Edwina Warby of Black Box Co, who is looking to transform the beef supply chain with better data. Se...

It’s a terrible year for the wine business, with grape growers being told to reduce their crops by at least 40 per cent as the crisis gripping the Australian premium red wine industry worsens. Tony Battaglene from Australian Grape and Wine explains how growers are coping. PLUS the sisters behind Four Daughters Beef talk to Verity Dolton, an aircraft mechanic in the Kimberley. See omnystudio.com/li...