The Weekly Grill

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on the domestic retail beef market, in a probing discussion on consumer issues, beefr branding and the post-COVID retail environment with successful Sydney butcher Stephen Kelly, head of the Sutcliffe Meats chain of 10 retail outlets.

Stephen knows the red meat supply chain space well, having spent 30 years in senior executive positions with export processor, Nippon Meat Packers, now known as NH Foods. prior to venturing into the retail world.

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat with his guest, Hugh Killen, managing director of the Australian Agricultural Co.

Mr Killen discusses AA Co's continued transition into a leaner, more agile luxury beef supply chain, the growing emphasis on Wagyu production, the implications in the company's launch last year of its annual sustainability report, and herd recovery after two years of drought.

He also touches on the impact of COVID on global beef supply and demand, and broader consumer trends towards 'quality over quantity.'

 

Next week: The Weekly Grill turns up the heat on the domestic retail beef market, in a probing discussion on consumer issues and the post-COVID retail environment with successful Sydney butcher Stephen Kelly, head of the Sutcliffe Meats chain of 11 retail outlets.