The Weekly Grill

This week's podcast is an interview with Beef Central's veteran saleyards market reporter Murray Arnel, who retires shortly after a distinguished 45-year career watching the ebbs and flows of the southern cattle and sheep markets. Murray has covered store and prime cattle and sheep sales across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales since the late 1970s.  

Welcome back to the 2023 third series of Beef Central podcasts, the Weekly Grill, with host Kerry Lonergan. Today's second episode is a start-of-year assessment of the cattle and beef industry's state of health in 2023, and the issues at hand with MLA managing director Jason Strong. Among other topics, the pair discuss research and development, marketing and market access priorities for Australian...

Welcome back to the 2023 third series of Beef Central podcasts, the Weekly Grill with host Kerry Lonergan. Today's season-opening interview is a start-of-year assessment of the cattle and beef markets for 2023 with regular commentators, Stockco's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish.   The pair discuss the 2023 year and what lies ahead: the dramatic adjustments in slaughter and young cattle prices...

Today's final 2022 Weekly Grill podcast with host Kerry Lonergan is an interview with Flinders + Co branded beef supply chain principal, James Madden. Flinders + Co created headlines in 2018 when it became the first meat company in the world to fully offset all carbon emissions from not only its own business, but every kilogram of meat it sold. What has happened since? The Weekly Grill podcast ser...

Today's Weekly Grill podcast with host Kerry Lonergan is an end-of-season wrap-up of the cattle and beef markets with regular commentators, Stockco's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish. The pair discuss the 2022 year that was, and what lies ahead. One of the unexpected twists that took place this year was the brief, but dramatic drop in cattle prices around July, when cattle producers were spook...

MLA’s corporate chef Sam Burke has an infectious enthusiasm for all things red meat, and the endless possibilities in how best to enjoy it when cooking a quick mid-week meal for the family, or a long weekend lunch with friends out of the smoker.   Any reader who has attended one of MLA's big industry events has probably heard Sam speak, or indeed eaten his some of his great food. In this extensive...

The Weekly Grill headed to the feedlot industry's BeefEX conference in Brisbane last week, catching up with Darling Downs lotfeeder David Brown for an extended chat on the present challenges and opportunities in lotfeeding, plus a series of 'vox pop' responses from other lotfeeders attending the conference. David, a trained veterinarian who owns and operates the West Talgai feedlot near Allora, re...

Against a background of rising interest rates and international political uncertainty, agricultural financiers remain optimistic about lending in the Australian agriculture space, the Weekly Grill podcast host, Kerry Lonergan learned this week. In this episode, Kerry speaks with National Australia Bank's Khan Horne, who has monitored the industry's fortunes over 30 years.   The pair discuss the ou...

Global burger restaurant giant McDonald's has withstood the effects of the COVID pandemic better than many in the food service industry, with trade volumes well up this year in many countries. It has made the supply challenge ever greater for McDonald's global head of procurement, Andrew Brazier, even greater, he told the Weekly Grill's Kerry Lonergan in an interview yesterday at BeefEX 2022. The...

The looming impact of the US drought on global beef supply and demand over the next two years is a key focus in today's Weekly Grill podcast cattle and beef market update with Ep3's Matt Dalgleish and Stockco's Chris Howie. The pair discuss the outlook for cattle prices and supply heading into what is shaping up as a wet, wet start to the summer grass growing season, live export prospects as boat...

Australian agriculture has always punched above its weight in terms of delivering world class inventions to improve farming and livestock efficiency – and therefore profits. In today's episode of The Weekly Grill you’ll hear about two more all-Australian technologies which are fast proving themselves here and now their inventors have their sights set on overseas markets.

Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns the heat up on water and dam construction advocate and managing director of Bowen River Utilities, John Cotter. His company is backing the huge Urannah Dam proposal near Bowen in North Queensland, pitching it as a combined agricultural irrigation and hydro electricity green energy  project. What will it take to get the project over the line?

Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week points the microphone towards the president of the Australian Cattle Veterinarians Association, Dr Tracy Sullivan. From her remote practise in Broome, WA, Tracy represents cattle vets across the country under the ACV banner.   In a wide ranging discussion, the pair explore the historic launch this week of the ambitious Immune Ready vaccination pro...

Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week points the microphone towards independent meat and livestock industry analyst and consultant, Simon Quilty.   In a wide ranging discussion, the pair chat about prospects for improvement in China market access, the impact that the US drought will have on Australia's beef fortunes heading into 2023, cattle market direction, Foot & Mouth Disease and...

Forget tradition and focus on profitability. That's one of the key messages from livestock and genetics industry innovator, Tom Bull, who sits down with The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week for a chat. The high profile Holbrook, NSW lamb genetics provider is a regular speaker at beef industry gatherings across the country, providing an 'outsiders perspective' on approaches to gen...

This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Mick Crowley, Meat & Livestock Australia's general manager for research, development and adoption. In a wide ranging interview, the pair discuss the prioritisation and allocation of industry funds to R&D, and the industry service delivery company's focus on 'Fewer, bigger, bolder," R&D projects. They also drill into some of the...

This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Andy Hearnden, executive chef with beef processor Kilcoy Global Foods in Queensland. Operating from Kilcoy's sparkling new commercial test kitchen located near Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Andy (pictured) has become something of a social media sensation, produced a suite of inspiring and motivating video clips enco...

This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Jim Lindsay, one of the three co-founders of the Low Stress Stock Handling movement.   Over the past 30 years, Jim and his collaborators Graeme Rees and the late Rod Knight have delivered hundreds of LSS courses across Australia, imprinting thousands of beef producers with better understanding about work cattle. Some grazing fa...

While The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan was at the Brisbane Ekka he caught up with Greg Pankhurst. In a wide ranging interview, Kerry spoke to the Qld Livestock Exporters Association president about the current markets, FMD, impacts on exports, plus what that means for Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Brazil... and more.

This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan ventured out to the Brisbane Ekka to turn up the heat on NTCA President and Tipperary Group GM, David Connolly.        

This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on our regular cattle market commentators, Chris Howie from Stockco, and Matt Dalgleish from Thomas Elder Markets. There have been some dramatic movements in the Australian store and slaughter cattle markets since the trio last came together in June. How much of it is driven by producer anxiety over the potential risk of BSE...

This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on industry identity David Larkin, head of the Kimberley Meat Co processing business near Broome.   How has this year's decline in live export activity out of northern Australia impacted Australia's most remote beef processing establishment? Is the labour access issue any different than it is for processors in more heavily p...

The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Beef Central's 'Man on the ground' in Indonesia, Dr Ross Ainsworth. Dr Ross steps through the rapidly escalating crisis across the Indonesian archipelago, as it pushes closer to Australia in the tourism hot-spot of Bali. What more can we do to mitigate risk to the Australian beef herd and sheep flock?

The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on veteran Queensland red meat processor, Trevor Lee. Trevor is the founder of Australian Country Choice, which operates a massive vertically-integrated beef supply chain stretching from breeding and backgrounding cattle to lotfeeding, processing and meat sales into a wide range of export and domestic markets. Among other top...

The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Central Queensland working dog legend, Frank Finger. Fresh from his appearances on ABC TV's Working Dogs series Frank Besides running his property – west of Clermont in central Queensland – Finger has decades of experience raising and training working dogs. He started a dog training school in 1995, which his sons and daugh...