The Weekly Grill

S1 E17 - Tracey Hayes, live export market class action facilitator

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 to $800 million will be distributed among the northern stakeholders who took part in the claim.

A former chief executive officer of the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association, Tracey is regarded as a senior business and industry leader, having also previously served as chair of the Darwin Waterfront Corporation and as a Member of the Order of Australia Honours Council. She is a director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Northern Australia, sits on the board of the Australia Indonesia Institute and is a member of the advisory board of the National Drought and North Queensland Flood Response and Recovery Agency.

S1 E16: Signature Beef’s Blair Angus - soon to be Australia’s newest red meat processor

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 this wide-ranging discussion, Blair shares their vision for the project, some innovative new practises he hopes to embed in its operations including a novel form of tenderstretching carcases, and the new business's focus on "the customer, rather than throughput." "If we wanted to chase throughput, we would very quickly sink into the commodity beef game, and that's a dangerous place to play," he says.

S1 E15: CPC managing director and Livecorp chairman, Troy Setter

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 borne by the live export industry.

Next week: The Weekly Grill gets an update on progress in Blair and Josie Angus's adventurous Signature Onfarm beef processing plant development near Clermont in Central Queensland.

S1 E14: Nutrition scientist and MLA board member, Manny Noakes

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 role of red meat in human nutrition and the environment.  Manny was instrumental in the development of the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, which positions red meat as part of a healthy diet for weight control.

In addition, she’s also a member of the National Committee for Nutrition for the Australian Academy of Sciences as well as being on its Expert Working Group Special Project: ‘Nourishing Australia: A decadal plan for nutrition science’.

In this week's podcast, she touches on a range of topics including common misconceptions about red meat nutrition, how red meat is presented in the national dietary guidelines, and her opinions about the emergence of plant-based proteins, often marketed as 'meat'.

 

Next week: The Weekly Grill talks with Livecorp chair and Consolidated Pastoral Co chief, Troy Setter.

S1 E13 - Cattle Council of Australia independent northern and southern directors, Alice Greenup and Olivia Lawson

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 board member, Manny Noakes.

S1 E12: What was driving the red-hot market for merchandise and replacement equipment at Beef 2021?

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, fencing and water storage were in red-hot demand throughout the week.

S1 E11: Agtech is everywhere, but how are producers approaching it?

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 interesting agtech items making their debut at the event, and talks with producers about how they are approaching technology in their own business, barriers to adoption and related topics.

S1 E10 - Where to for the Australian Cattle Market?

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 cattle producers attending the event, over where they see the slaughter and store cattle markets going in coming months. Many found it hard to envisage any storm clouds on the horizon, for the foreseeable future, with the possible exception of trade into China.

S1 E9 - Rural Property Values with Tim Lane and Rawdon Briggs

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 heading.

S1 E8 -Saving the world with seaweed

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 have shown the additive, used in very small doses, can reduce emissions in feedlot cattle by 90pc.