The Weekly Grill

Australian Country Choice head Anthony Lee gave a powerful address at Brisbane Ekka this time last year on  the need for greater industry focus on training and education. What's happened in the 12 months since? In this week’s podcast, host Kerry Lonergan and Anthony Lee chew the fat on some of the encouraging progress that’s been made over the past 12 months, and the challenges that still lie ahea...

This week's Weekly Grill podcast takes a different approach, chatting with beef industry stakeholders, politicians and others about what's on their mind. Cost of production, the prospects of heading back into drought, and carbon came up in several conversations, as did the genetic progress being made in the Australian beef industry - manifested in the Ekka's magnificent stud beef judging display.

This week's Weekly Grill podcast take a look at the red meat processing labour challenge, and possible solutions, from another perspective - through an interview with the Australian Meat Industry Employee's Union Queensland branch manager, Matt Journeaux.   Mr Journeaux and podcast host Kerry Lonergan chew the fat on a range of issues from attracting employees to work in the processing industry, t...

CREATIVE solutions to processing labour challenges, trends in the slaughter and store cattle markets, and how the business has moved on from devastating flooding in early 2022 were topics served up during this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, where host Kerry Lonergan has a lengthy chat with southeast Queensland beef processor and producer Terry Nolan, co-principal of Nolan Meats near Gympie. Mr Nolan...

Fresh back from a marketplace visit to Indonesia, Consolidated Pastoral Co head and Livecorp chairman Troy Setter sits down to chew the fat in the latest episode of Beef Central's Weekly Grill podcast. Host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat, asking about beef demand and economic conditions in Indonesia, boat cattle livestock price prospects for the rest of the year, and other trends.

Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Cattle Australia CEO, Luke Bowen. What are the front-of-mind issues faced by the grassfed beef industry as we pass he mid-point of 2023? How are Cattle Australia’s finance plans developing?  How important is carbon/sustainability on CA’s policy-setting radar? These and other topics are covered in this week’s episode

Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on two of Australia's leading meat scientists, Prof Graham Gardiner and Dr Peter McGilchrist - who have headed Australia's recent research into objective carcase measurement. The ground-breaking ALMTech project driving advances in objective measurement for carcase yield and quality officially came to a close on 30 June.     So what's been...

Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on the woman regarded by many as the 'voice of the bush' in Canberra, Senator Susan McDonald.   Among the broad topics discussed, Sen McDonald was the chair of the Senate inquiry into Definitions of Meat and Other Animal Products back in 2022, that proposed a raft of changes to terminology around plant-based meat and other issues. What's h...

This week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on international red meat advocate, Laura Ryan

This week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on consumer behaviour and marketing expert, Stockyard's Lisa Sharp.  

Australian young cattle and slaughter cattle prices have continued to descend during the first half of 2023. In this week's podcast, regular markets commentators, RMA's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish face the big questions: Are we at or near the bottom of the price cycle? What impact will the forecast drier winter have on cattle supply and demand? Are processors going to be able to cope (lab...

TAKE a look in any supermarket retail chilled cabinet, and it's evident that value-added meat products are rapidly soaking up space previously devoted to basic chilled, packaged beef and lamb.   Around the world, time-poor householders are increasingly looking at more convenient heat-and-serve and ready-to-eat meals. One of the pioneers in the value-added further processing industry in Australia,...

New South Wales beef producer George King's views expressed in an opinion piece on carbon published on Beef Central back in March attracted an extraordinary level of reader comment.   Mr King, who also joined the board of the new Cattle Australia board representing the grassfed cattle industry in December, sat down with Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan last week to chew the fat.  

Angus seedstock breeders are gathered in Tamworth this week for their annual conference, and in this week's Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan caught up with Angus Australia president Erica Halliday. Erica talks about the challenges and opportunities facing Angus cattle and beef in Australia, progress in objective measurement of an ever-widening list of production, fertility and meat qualit...

IN this week's episode, 88-year-old beef processing industry veteran Allan Teys reflects on his experiences stretching across seven decades in the red meat and livestock industry. Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan digs deep into the industry's eventful past in this interview with Mr Teys, who before retirement headed the Teys processing business for more than 35 years and represented the industry a...

In this week's episode, Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on MLA international markets manager Andrew Cox, with a focus on Australian red meat's Free Trade Agreements. Australia is drawing closer to start under the new agreement with the United Kingdom, and steady progress is taking place behind the scenes over a new trade agreement with the European Union. It is widely anticipate...

This week's episode continues an occasional  showcase series on interesting pieces of emerging ag technology. Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan points the microphone at AirAgri's James Diamond, who has developed a personal location finder device with high workplace safety implications for agriculture. The mobile app based technology works in conjunction with an iOT tracking device to ensure farmer...

Goats used to be the supplementary commodity that 'helped pay the annual boarding school fees' for many livestock operators in western regions. Then the market for goats soared to record highs during COVID, before crashing spectacularly over the past six months. Where does the goat market go  from here? Is international demand in recovery? Have goat numbers bred up after the drought to the point o...

Beef Central's US-based monthly columnist Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers Weekly, sits down to chew the fat with Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan in today's podcast episode. After 12 months of severe drought, US beef production and numbers going onto feed are now in rapid decline, as herd rebuilding starts to occur as northern hemisphere conditions start to warm up. What is it doing to pr...

Australian young cattle and slaughter cattle prices have continued to descend since our opening markets summary podcast with regular commentators, Stockco's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish  back in late January. Two months on, are we near the bottom of the price cycle? Is there still a way to go? What impact will the forecast drier winter have on cattle supply and demand? Are processors going...

Big changes are sweeping the Australian grainfed beef industry, and today's episode of the Weekly Grill podcast captures some of the big trends evident in Beef Central's current Top 25 Lotfeeders industry analysis. Join Zoetis's Andrew Hallas and Beef Central's Jon Condon, as they sit down with podcast host Kerry Lonergan to explore the big trends in the industry, and what's driving them. The reve...

This week's Weekly Grill podcast focusses on Highland Beef Pastoral Co, a unique Australian certified grassfed beef supply chain targetting the United States  home-delivery beef market. As principal Murray Richardson explains, Highland Beef - somewhat unusually - was 'reverse engineered', in that the large US customer was found first, and the supply chain built around it. The business now manages...

This week’s podcast features an interview with Australian Beef Sustainability Framework chair and Central Queensland beef producer, Mark Davie. “Through the CN30 initiative, our industry defined a problem and set about investing in research and development to address the challenge, informed by drivers of industry productivity and cost,” Mr Davie says. “Because of this initiative, we are now leadin...

This week's podcast features an interview with live export industry pioneer Dr Rick Trivett.   As the head of Austrex, Rick has ridden the peaks and troughs of the Australian live export industry, pioneering trade into Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other parts of the world.

This week's podcast is an interview with the grassfed cattle industry's new boss, David Foote, chairman of Cattle Australia. The freshly-minted peak council has a big task in front of it, not the least being developing a viable funding model. It made a solid and popular start this week appointing Luke Bowen as the organisation's inaugural CEO. Mr Foote shares his early thoughts in the direction, p...