The Weekly Grill

Australia is the world's largest producer of Certified Organic beef, but while supply is expanding, it goes nowhere near filling global demand, Alister Ferguson from Toowoomba's Arcadian Organic Meat Co tells host Kerry Lonergan in this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series.

Alister  discusses the dramatic changes he has witnessed in the Organic Beef industry over the past 16 years, Arcadian was launched in 2005. Today Arcadian employs more than 60 staff spread between its offices in Toowoomba and Sydney, and a packing plant in Gosford.

 

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

This week on The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with livestock transport industry legend Ross Fraser, from Fraser's Transport.

Ross discusses the dramatic changes he has witnessed in the industry over the 75 years his company has been in operation, in areas like animal welfare, minimising bruising, transport efficiency and productivity.

Next week: The Weekly Grill focusses on the expansion being seen in Certified Organic beef production, with supply chain manager Alister Ferguson from Toowoomba's Arcadian Organic Meat Co.

On this week's Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Queensland lotfeeder Charlie Mort on the current red hot market for feeder cattle, the tough operating environment for grainfeeding supply chains, the expansion of the Mort & Co lotfeeding business, and future plans.

This week on The Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on cattle prices, the impact of recent rain on supply, and where the market is likely to head in coming months, with Thomas Elder Markets analyst, Matt Dalgleish and specialist livestock finance supplier StockCo's Chris Howie.

Our podcast with lotfeeder Charlie Mort has been held over until next week, due to the timeliness of today's topic on the cattle market.

Coming up on The Weekly Grill in April: Livestock transport legend Ross Fraser on 75 years operations in the cattle industry; and Organic Beef supply chain manager Alister Ferguson on the dramatic changes being seen on certified Organic beef production in Australia.

The Weekly Grill is supported by Elanco Animal Health.

This week, veteran agricultural broadcaster Kerry Lonergan joins Beef Central, hosting our brand new industry podcast series called The Weekly Grill. The new podcast series is brought to readers with the support of Elanco Animal Health.

Each week, Kerry will sit down with an industry identity to chew the fat on topical matters across the meat and livestock industry.

His first guest is Queensland red meat processor, lotfeeder and beef producer Terry Nolan, discussing the current challenging conditions faced by meat processors, Australian beef's global competitiveness, herd rebuilding, the future direction of MSA, the labour challenge, potential for automation in agriculture and other topics.