Episodes
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
CAN Australia do more with its red meat production than simply putting it in a box and selling it in chilled or frozen form? Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week sits down with successful beef jerky manufacturer Emily Pullen, whose family produces the popular Jim's Jerky range in Queensland.
Jim's Jerky ploughs through about four tonnes of grassfed topsides each week producing its tasty beef snacks, marketed through major domestic supermarket retailers, roadhouses and exported into a large number of overseas countries.
Friday Sep 29, 2023
S3 Ep34: Cattle Australia acting CEO, Adam Coffey
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week sits down with Cattle Australia's acting chief executive, Queensland beef producer Adam Coffey.
The pair discuss Cattle Australia's bedding-down over its first 12 months, progress on plans to fund the grassfed industry representative body, and CA's recent call to shift the beef industry's environmental benchmark focus from 'carbon neutral' to 'climate neutral' - designed to concentrate on the bottom-line warming impact of the industry. As part of this, it called for a review of MLA’s CN30 (Carbon Neutral) framework.
Cattle Australia is approaching the end of its first full year of operation as Australia’s new peak representative body for the nation’s 40,000-plus grassfed cattle producers, and will soon start calling on producer support in the form of annual membership fees to help resource its advocacy efforts on their behalf.
Friday Sep 22, 2023
S3 Ep33: Live exporter, Justin Slaughter from Austrex
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week sits down with Justin Slaughter, who has risen through the ranks in his 31-year career in the Australian meat and livestock industry.
Justin is CEO and managing director of AgTrade, an Australian-owned, globally-focused livestock, genetics and food security company, with a commitment to working across the livestock supply chain to provide protein to all major markets around the world. The AgTrade group of businesses include live export service provider Austrex; specialised beef supply chain manager and exporter Paradigm Foods, and ThriveAgri. Together, the companies span premium branded beef, pork and lamb products; breeding livestock and genetics; animal feed & nutrition products; and breeding, dairy & beef livestock export.
Justin has previously served in a range of industry representative roles including as chair of the Queensland Livestock Exporters Association and director of the Australian Livestock Exporters Council, as well as participating in various trade & ministerial delegations to improve market access for Australian primary producers. In 2013, he received a Livestock Industry Young Achiever Award for his dedication to the live export industry.
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Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
S3 Ep31: Cattle market update, with Chris Howie & Matt Dalgleish
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Australian young cattle and slaughter cattle prices have continued to descend during the first eight months of 2023. In this week's podcast, regular markets commentators, RMA's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish face the big questions:
Are processors going to be able to cope (labour wise) with larger numbers of slaughter cattle? If not, what happens to prices? These and other topics are posed in today's cattle market update podcast by Weekly Grill host, Kerry Lonergan.
Other topics include the rapidly changing circumstances in the US beef production cycle, the impact of this month's UK Free Trade Agreement, the log-jam of young cattle in northern Australia caused by the Lumpy Skin Disease regulatory episode, and other potential headwinds and tailwinds
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Weekly Grill S3 Ep30: Zanda McDonald Award winner, Mitch Highett
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Thirty-three year old Mitch Highett is a city boy by origin, but has forged an impressive early career in the beef industry. He chats this week with Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan.
The Australian winner of the 2023 Zanda McDonald award lives in Orange NSW, and is the founder and managing director of Bullseye Ag. Mitch's farm management company works alongside farms across NSW and QLD with an area totalling more than 200,000ha. He also has a cattle enterprise running 250 breeders, and assists farmers through the Rural Assistance Authority and as Chair of the NSW Young Farmers.
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Elders' Northern Australian property chief Tim Lane, and LAWD director and head valuer Tim McKinnon chew the fat with Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week about the property market outlook.
Has the gloss gone off, because of the slump in cattle prices, dry weather and elevated interest rates? Are corporates about to mount another big acquisition surge?
Friday Aug 18, 2023
S3 Ep28: ACC head Anthony Lee
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Australian Country Choice head Anthony Lee gave a powerful address at Brisbane Ekka this time last year on the need for greater industry focus on training and education. What's happened in the 12 months since?
In this week’s podcast, host Kerry Lonergan and Anthony Lee chew the fat on some of the encouraging progress that’s been made over the past 12 months, and the challenges that still lie ahead.
Friday Aug 11, 2023
S3 Ep27: Beef industry stakeholders attending Brisbane’s Ekka
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
This week's Weekly Grill podcast takes a different approach, chatting with beef industry stakeholders, politicians and others about what's on their mind.
Cost of production, the prospects of heading back into drought, and carbon came up in several conversations, as did the genetic progress being made in the Australian beef industry - manifested in the Ekka's magnificent stud beef judging display.
Friday Aug 04, 2023
S3 EP26: AMIEU’s Matt Journeaux
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
This week's Weekly Grill podcast take a look at the red meat processing labour challenge, and possible solutions, from another perspective - through an interview with the Australian Meat Industry Employee's Union Queensland branch manager, Matt Journeaux.
Mr Journeaux and podcast host Kerry Lonergan chew the fat on a range of issues from attracting employees to work in the processing industry, to overseas labour programs and whether they represent a threat to local employment, the need for training and the modern day role of the union movement.