The Weekly Grill

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Grace Brennan, founder of 'Buy from the Bush.' In 2019, drought in New South Wales was devastating rural livelihoods and communities. In response, rural-dwelling, self-employed mum, Grace, started a social media campaign, #buyfromthebush, a campaign and online marketplace connecting talented makers,...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat again on StockCo's Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish, as the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator continues to soar to new record highs, hitting 1031c/kg overnight. Have we yet seen the peak in young cattle prices? Will the spring flush cattle turnoff in southern Australia pressure young c...

On the Weekly Grill with Kerry Lonergan this week is Markus Rathsmann,  President of Council of Australia. A Northern Territory beef producer, Markus answers the burning questions on possible restructuring of CCA and MLA, he has opinions on the journey ahead for beef producers as they try to meet the goal of being carbon neutral by 2030 - and of course, there's the levy - to lift or to lower - it'...

There's a world champion on the Weekly Grill this week - Patrick Warmoll, the boss of Jack's Creek Wagyu tells host Kerry Lonergan the story of winning the 'World's Best Steak' title - not once but twice. Now he's determined to get a third title later this year - and it all started because of an article in a magazine. Third generation family owned Jack's Creek has evolved into an integrated Wagyu...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on veteran pastoral company executive Roger Halliwell. Roger spent a quarter of a century with Stanbroke Pastoral Co, then the biggest beef producer in the world, before the company was sold by its owner, AMP, in 2006.

In this week's week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on veteran red meat industry identity Richard Rains. Prior to his retirement Richard was the head of Sanger Australia, one of the nation's largest non-packer exporters. He is widely credited for convincing global burger giant McDonald's US to shift its grinding beef policy from domestic only, to...

In this week's week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on carbon trading expert, Toby Grogan, from Impact Agriculture. Carbon credits and carbon trading are arguably some of the most complicated and misunderstood topics in the beef industry today. What are they? How do they work? What's in it for producers? Currently there are about 150 properties i...

In this week's week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Red Meat Advisory Council chair, John McKillop. The pair tackle sustainability, fake meat, red meat's carbon footprint, the red meat industry's ability to cut-through in Canberra, the evolving scope of RMAC, and other related issues.  

How does the future look for stud cattle shows in Australia? While the 2021 Royal Queensland Show has unfortunately been cancelled due to COVID, this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series sees host Kerry Lonergan turn up the heat on RNA councillor and Beef Cattle Committee chairman Gary Noller, and Northern NSW stud cattle breeder and exhibitor Rob Sinnamon. Both have had a life-long c...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat again on veteran Victorian meatworks cattle buyer, David Ronalds, who this year clocks up his fifth-eighth year buying cattle across eastern and central Australia. How has the industry changed? What was cattle buying like back in 1964, when he first started? Did he ever foresee slaughter cattle making...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat again on StockCo's Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish, as the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator this morning crashes through the magical 1000c/kg barrier for the first time in history. Have we yet seen the peak in young cattle prices? Both Matt and Chris are forecasting a softening trend...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Queensland beef processor and supply chain manager, Australian Country Choice's David Foote. Mr Foote is currently in gradual transition out of his full-time role as ACC's group managing director, which he has filled for the past 22 years, handing over the reins recently to Anthony Lee. Over the yea...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on orthopaedic surgeon, Gary Fettke, who this year has emerged as a powerful advocate for a diet containing adequate amounts of red meat. The sense that red meat industry is under attack from powerful and aligned forces, and urgently needs to better align its own resources and “get off the back foot”,...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat again on low-and-slow BBQ competition king, Grant Coleman. In his day-job, Grant is general manager at NH Foods' Oakey Beef Exports plant on the Darling Downs, but come the weekend, he is one of Australia's best known BBQ smoker competitors. Three years ago he was runner-up in the World BBQ championshi...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat again on StockCo's Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish, on whether the industry has yet seen the peak in young cattle prices. Both believe an Eastern Young Cattle Indicator above 900c/kg is going to be around for at least the next three months, and that market fundamentals among restoc...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Tracey Hayes, who led the live export industry's successful Class Action over the impact of the Federal Government's 2011 Indonesian live export market suspension. Tracey explains the background the the action, and where the process of funds distribution goes from here. It has been suggested that up...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Signature Beef founder and soon to be meat processor, Blair Angus. Beef industry leaders and entrepreneurs Blair and his wife Josie are undertaking the biggest risk of their business lives in establishing their own meat processing business on their property near Clermont in Central Queensland. In th...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Consolidated Pastoral Co chief and Livecorp chairman, Troy Setter, touching on wide range of topics including the tight trading environment for live exporters consigning cattle into Indonesia and Vietnam, the challenges facing the northern pastoral industry, and increasing regulatory burdens being b...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on nutrition scientist and MLA special skills board member, Manny Noakes. Prof Noakes has spent 25 years as a researcher and director in nutrition and health at CSIRO. She has extensive knowledge in many fields of nutrition and health including the food regulatory system and ‘functional foods’, and the...

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on the the challenges facing the Australian grassfed beef sector, in this wide-ranging and far-reaching discussion with Cattle Council of Australia independent northern and southern directors, Alice Greenup and Olivia Lawson. Next week: The Weekly Grill talks with CSIRO nutrition scientist and MLA boar...

In this Beef 2021 special episode of The Weekly Grill podcasts, brought to you by Colliers Agribusiness, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Beef 2021 chairman Bryce Camm and commercial trade exhibitors about what was driving the boom in sales of products and services experienced across the grounds during the week-long event. Everything from stock handling equipment to animal ID, agtech, transport, fen...

Agtech in its various forms was a constant topic of discussion among the thousands of industry stakeholders attending Beef 2021 in Rockhampton last week. Virtually every seminar and trade commercial display was showcasing technology in one form or another. In this Beef 2021 special episode of The Weekly Grill podcasts, brought to you by Colliers Agribusiness, host Kerry Lonergan looks at some inte...

Once-in-a-lifetime cattle prices, and where they may trend over the remainder of 2021, was a constant topic of discussion among the thousands of industry stakeholders attending Beef 2021 in Rockhampton last week. In this Beef 2021 special episode of The Weekly Grill, brought to you by Colliers Agribusiness, host Kerry Lonergan talks to Thomas Elder Markets’ Matt Dalgleish and a bunch of everyday c...

What's driving the property market amid an unprecendented period of super heated cattle prices, super low interest and largely improved seasonal conditions? In this Beef 2021 special episode of The Weekly Grill from Rockhampton, brought to you by Colliers Agribusiness, host Kerry Lonergan talks to Herron Todd White's Tim Lane and Colliers International's Rawdon Briggs look at where the market is h...

The prospects for methane reduction from seaweed additives in stockfeed surfaced at a number of seminars held during Beef 2021 this week. In this Beef 2021 special episode of The Weekly Grill from Rockhampton, host Kerry Lonergan talks with one of the presenters, Dr Rob Kinley from Futurefeed, the company charged with commercialising the aspargopisis red seaweed product for commercial use. Trials...