Today’s Weekly Grill podcast turns to the important topic of mental health in the bush, with contributions from Dolly’s Dream general manager Sally McSweeny and neuro science specialist Dr Simone Shaw. There'[s lots of Dolly’s Dream activity planned for Beef 2024 in Rockhampton next month…Read More
Today’s Weekly Grill podcast turns to the important topic of mental health in the bush, with contributions from Dolly’s Dream general manager Sally McSweeny and neuro science specialist Dr Simone Shaw. There'[s lots of Dolly’s Dream activity planned for Beef 2024 in Rockhampton next month…Read More
In today’s Weekly Grill podcast RMA’s Chris Howie and Ep3’s Matt Dalgleish provide a cattle and beef markets update, as the industry heads into the thick of the mid-year production cycle. Challenges lay ahead, but on balance the industry is in strong shape to meet the growing beef demand challenge over the next couple of years, the pair suggest. ..Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Darwin-based rural property valuer Frank Peacocke, discussing the outlook for land values in the Northern Territory and Kimberley region, alternate land use with the region’s emerging farming sector, carbon opportunities and other issues…Read More
As part of our series relating to AA Co’s 200-year anniversary this year, today’s Weekly Grill podcast episode sees host Kerry Lonergan chatting with former AA Co senior manager Geoff Wagstaff, who worked with the company for almost 30 years from 1979…Read More
On the eve of the annual Inter-Collegiate Meat Judging northern conference in Rockhampton, Kerry Lonergan chats with ICMJ chairman Peter McGilchrist and recent graduates Ethan Mooney and Chloe Gould about the valuable educational role the program serves for the Australian beef and sheepmeat industries…Read More
Former NFF President Brent Finlay came out of the paddock two decades ago to tackle agricultural representation including local, state, commodity, national and World Farm Organisation roles. Passionate about Australia’s greatest industry – agriculture – its people, its communities and its products, he is seeking support from across the sector and the rural community for landmark reforms to Australian agricultural representation. Relieving unnecessary regulatory burdens is just one of the topics raised during today’s discourse with Weekly Grill podcast host, Kerry Lonergan. ..Read More
With the countdown to the Australian beef industry’s Beef 2024 event now down to seven weeks, podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week chats with event chairman Bryce Camm. More than 100,000 Australian and international meat and livestock industry stakeholders are expected to pass through the Rocky Showgrounds for the six-day event starting May 6.
How are preparations going? What’s new for 2024?..Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week chats with John Seccombe, Northern NSW beef producer and chairman of the Northern Co-operative Meat Co processing business at Casino. Operating since 1933, NCMC is recognised in Australia and globally as an industry leader in red meat processing, and along with WAMMCo in WA, is one of only two cooperatively-structed red meat processors in the country…Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week chats with Michael Lee – Group manager for Science and Innovation at MLA – leading a team working in areas like food safety, processing efficiencies, automation, digital agriculture, objective measurement, food innovation, meeting market specifications, and positioning red meat value chains for future growth..Read More
Weekly Grill host, Kerry Lonergan this week catches up with Cattle Australia chief executive, Dr Chris Parker. Among other topics, the pair discuss the grassfed cattle levy, carbon and methane, biosecurity, skilled labour shortages, sustainability … and more…Read More
With Wednesday’s Indonesian national election victory being claimed by Prabowo Subianto, attention will now focus on the prospects for 2024 live cattle import permits to be issued, following lengthy delays. In this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Darwin based live exporter Patrick Underwood about the permit issue, prospects for live exports to Indonesia and other markets throughout 2024, and what happens to northern cattle – now rapidly gaining weight – if there are further permit delays…Read More
This week’s Weekly Grill podcast guest, Chris Evans, has spent his working life involved in extensive cattle operations across Northern Australia – both as a consultant/advisor and under his own steam…Read More
Today’s Weekly Grill podcast hosted by Kerry Lonergan features independent analyst Simon Quilty, discussing the current market environment and what lies ahead…Read More
In today’s return of Beef Central’s Weekly Grill podcast series RMA’s Chris Howie and Ep3’s Matt Dalgleish tackle whether the best of the price rally is now behind us and will processors facing labour challenges be able to cope with greater slaughter cattle volumes? ..Read More
North QLD beef extension legend Bernie English has notched up 50 years engaging with beef producers and other stakeholders over adoption of of new practises and technologies. In today’s final Weekly Grill podcast for 2023, host Kerry Lonergan asks him a key question: “What changes would you make if you were Queensland Agriculture Minister for a week?” ..Read More
As part of National Ag Day today, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan sits down to chat with freshly-minted NFF president, David Jochinke ..Read More
In this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, regular market commentators Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish respond to the questions: are we near the bottom of the price cycle? What lies ahead for prices in 2024?..Read More
Over a 40+ year career in the beef industry, Christ Todd has worked in senior operations and management position in stock agency, processor cattle buying and most recently, breed society administration. He retired recently – here’s his recollections of how things have changed ..Read More
Where is progress up to in the development of feed additives designed to mitigate the production of methane in the rumen of beef cattle? In this week’s podcast, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with Adam Main from CH4 Australia, a company producing feed additives from asparagopsis seaweed, farmed in a network of land-based ponds on the Eyre Peninsula…Read More
As the Australian red meat industry approaches the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of Meat Standards Australia, this week’s Weekly Grill podcast episode dives deep into the evolution of the ground-breaking tenderness guarantee program with one of its pioneers, Rod Polkinghorne…Read More
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…Read More
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 progress 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.’..Read More
This week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan talks with live exporter Justin Slaughter, CEO and managing director of AgTrade, an Australian-owned, globally-focused livestock, genetics and food security company, whose businesses include live exporter Austrex, red meat supply chain manager Paradigm Foods and Thrive Agri…Read More
This week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan talks with recruiters and labour service providers Ray Johnson and Tom Reardon about the labour drought being experienced across the bush ..Read More
Australian young cattle and slaughter cattle prices have continued to descend during the first half of 2023. In this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, regular market commentators Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish respond to the question: are we near the bottom of the price cycle? ..Read More
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 winner of the 2023 Zanda McDonald award lives in Orange NSW, and is the founder and MD of farm management company Bullseye Ag, working with farms across NSW and QLD managing more than 200,000ha..Read More
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? ..Read More
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, Mr Lee and host Kerry Lonergan 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. ..Read More
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…Read More
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 secretary, Matt Journeaux. Mr Journeaux and podcast host Kerry Lonergan explore a range of issues from attracting employees to work in the processing industry, to overseas labour programs, the need for training and the modern day role of the union movement…Read More
Creative solutions to processing labour challenges, trends in the slaughter and store cattle markets, and how the business has moved on from devastating flooding in early 2022 were topics served up during this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, where host Kerry Lonergan has a lengthy chat with southeast Queensland beef processor Terry Nolan, co-principal of Nolan Meats near Gympie…Read More
Fresh back from a marketplace visit to Indonesia, Consolidated Pastoral Co head and Livecorp chairman Troy Setter sits down to chew the fat with Kerry Lonergan in the latest episode of Beef Central’s Weekly Grill podcast…Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Cattle Australia CEO, Luke Bowen. What are the front-of-mind issues faced by the grassfed beef industry as we pass he mid-point of 2023? How are Cattle Australia’s finance plans developing? How important is carbon/sustainability on CA’s policy-setting radar? These and other topics are covered in this week’s episode ..Read More
The weekly Grill this week turns up the heat on two of Australia’s leading meat scientists, Prof Graham Gardiner and Dr Peter McGilchrist – who have headed Australia’s recent research into objective carcase measurement. The ground-breaking ALMTech project driving advances in objective measurement for carcase yield and quality officially came to a close on 30 June. So what’s been achieved? What remains to be done? Is there a risk of the work stalling, now that finding for the research has come to a close?..Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on the woman regarded by many as the ‘voice of the bush’ in Canberra, Senator Susan McDonald. Among the broad topics discussed, Sen McDonald was the chair of the Senate inquiry into Definitions of Meat and Other Animal Products back in 2022, that proposed a raft of changes to terminology around plant-basd meat and other issues. What’s happened since? ..Read More
This week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on international red meat advocate, Laura Ryan, co-founder of the Global Meat Alliance and the global head of the Meat Business Women group..Read More
This week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on consumer behaviour and marketing expert, Stockyard’s Lisa Sharp…Read More
Australian young cattle and slaughter cattle prices have continued to descend during the first half of 2023. In this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, regular market commentators Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish respond to the question: are we near the bottom of the price cycle? ..Read More
Time-poor householders around the world are increasingly looking at more convenient heat-and-serve and ready-to-eat meals instead of purchasing conventional chilled beef or lamb. One of the pioneers in the value-added further processing industry in Australia, David Beak, sits down with the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week…Read More
New South Wales beef producer George King’s views expressed in an opinion piece on carbon published on Beef Central back in March attracted an extraordinary level of reader comment. Here are some of his views, expressed in this week’s podcast with Weekly Grill host, Kerry Lonergan ..Read More
Angus seedstock producers are gathered in Tamworth this week for the breed’s annual conference, and in this week’s Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan caught up with Angus Australia president Erica Halliday. ..Read More
In this week’s episode, 88-year-old beef processing industry veteran Allan Teys reflects on his experiences stretching across seven decades in the red meat industry. Mr Teys reflects on the good times, as well as the bad, and the colourful as well as the sober – including the 1974 Beef Slump, dealings with the late Kerry Packer during the Consolidated Meat Group era, and the relationships between producers and processors. ..Read More
In this week’s episode, Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on MLA international markets manager Andrew Cox, with a focus on Australian red meat’s Free Trade Agreements. It is widely anticipated that Prime Minister Albansese will make an announcement about the UK FTA while in London this weekend for Charles’ investiture ..Read More
This week’s episode continues an occasional showcase series on interesting pieces of emerging ag technology. Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan points the microphone at James Diamond, who has developed a personal location finder device with high workplace safety implications for agriculture, and New Zealander Dr Mark Ferguson from tech developer neXtgen Agri, whose AI-driven facial recognition technology for livestock is in an advanced stage of development..Read More
The market for goats soared to record highs during COVID, before crashing spectacularly over the past six months. Where does the goat market go from here? Is international demand in recovery? Have goat numbers bred up after the drought to the point of over-supply? In this episode of the Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Charleville Meat Processors’ Campbell McPhee…Read More
Beef Central’s US-based monthly columnist Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers Weekly, sits down to chew the fat with Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan in today’s podcast episode. After 12 months of severe drought, US beef production and numbers going onto feed are now in rapid decline. What ‘s it doing to production volume, beef demand, and cattle and beef prices? ..Read More
Australian young cattle and slaughter cattle prices have continued to descend since our opening markets summary podcast for the year with regular commentators, Stockco’s Chris Howie and Ep3’s Matt Dalgleish back in late January. Two months on, are we near the bottom of the price cycle? Is there still a way to go? What impact will the forecast drier winter have on cattle supply and demand? These and other questions are posed in today’s cattle market update podcast by Weekly Grill host, Kerry Lonergan…Read More
Big changes are sweeping the Australian grainfed beef industry, and today’s episode of the Weekly Grill podcast captures some of the big trends evident in Beef Central’s current Top 25 Lotfeeders industry analysis. Join Zoetis’s Andrew Hallas and Beef Central publisher Jon Condon, as they sit down with podcast host Kerry Lonergan to explore the big trends in the industry, and what’s driving them…Read More
This week’s Weekly Grill podcast focusses on Highland Beef Pastoral Co, a unique Australian certified grassfed beef supply chain targetting the US home-delivery market. As principal Murray Richardson explains, Highland Beef – somewhat unusually – was ‘reverse engineered’, in that the US customer was found first, and the supply chain built around it…Read More
This week’s podcast features an interview with Australian Beef Sustainability Framework Chair, and Central Queensland beef producer, Mark Davie..Read More
This week’s podcast features an interview with live export industry pioneer Dr Rick Trivett…Read More
This week’s podcast is an interview with the grassfed cattle industry’s new boss, David Foote, chairman of Cattle Australia. The freshly-minted peak council has a big task in front of it, not the least being developing a viable funding model. ..Read More
This week’s podcast is an interview with Beef Central’s veteran saleyards market reporter Murray Arnel, who retires shortly after a distinguished 45-year career watching the ebbs and flows of the southern cattle and sheep markets…Read More
Today’s second Weekly Grill podcast for 2023 is an interview with MLA managing director Jason Strong, looking at what lies ahead in red meat industry R&D, marketing and market development…Read More
Today’s season-opening interview is a start-of-year assessment of the cattle and beef markets for 2023 with regular commentators, Stockco’s Chris Howie and Ep3’s Matt Dalgleish…Read More
Today’s final Weekly Grill podcast with host Kerry Lonergan is an interview with Flinders + Co branded beef supply chain principal, James Madden. Flinders + Co created headlines in 2018 when it became the first meat company in the world to fully offset all carbon emissions from not only its own business, but every kilogram of meat it sold. What has happened since?..Read More
Today’s Weekly Grill podcast with host Kerry Lonergan is an end-of-season wrap-up of the cattle and beef markets with regular commentators, Stockco’s Chris Howie and Ep3’s Matt Dalgleish. The trio discuss the 2022 year that was, and what lies ahead…Read More
MLA’s corporate chef Sam Burke has an infectious enthusiasm for all things red meat, and the endless possibilities in how best to enjoy it when cooking a quick mid-week meal for the family, or a long weekend lunch with friends out of the smoker. In this extensive Weekly Grill interview with host Kerry Lonergan, the larger-than-life character looks at some of the opportunities and challenges facing red meat in consumer-land…Read More
The Weekly Grill headed to the feedlot industry’s BeefEX conference in Brisbane last week, catching up with Darling Downs lotfeeder David Brown for an extended chat on the present challenges and opportunities in lotfeeding, plus a series of ‘vox pop’ responses from other lotfeeders attending the conference…Read More
Against a background of rising interest rates and international political uncertainty, agricultural financiers remain optimistic about lending in the Australian agriculture space, the Weekly Grill podcast host, Kerry Lonergan learned this week. In this episode, Kerry speaks with National Australia Bank’s Khan Horne, who has monitored the industry’s fortunes over 30 years…Read More
Global burger restaurant giant McDonald’s has withstood the effects of the COVID pandemic better than many in the food service industry, with trade volumes well up this year in many countries. It has made the supply challenge ever greater for McDonald’s global head of procurement, Andrew Brazier, he told the Weekly Grill’s Kerry Lonergan during BeefEX…Read More
The looming impact of the US drought on global beef supply and demand over the next two years is a key focus in today’s cattle and beef market update with Ep3’s Matt Dalgleish and Stockco’s Chris Howie…Read More
Australian agriculture has always punched above its weight in terms of delivering world class inventions to improve farming and livestock efficiency – and therefore profits.
In today’s episode of The Weekly Grill you’ll hear about two more all-Australian technologies which are fast proving themselves here and now their inventors have their sights set on overseas markets…Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns the heat up on water and dam construction advocate and managing director of Bowen River Utilities, John Cotter. His company is backing the huge Urannah Dam proposal near Bowen in North Queensland, pitching it as a combined agricultural irrigation and hydro electricity green energy project…Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week points the microphone towards the president of the Australian Cattle Vets Association, Dr Tracy Sullivan. The pair explore the historic launch this week of the ambitious Immune Ready vaccination program, the challenges of attracting young vets to work in the bush, the pros and cons of layman preg-testing and other topics…Read More
Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week points the microphone towards independent meat and livestock industry analyst and consultant, Simon Quilty. In a wide ranging discussion, the pair chat about prospects for improvement in China market access, the impact that the US drought will have on Australia’s beef fortunes heading into 2023, cattle market direction, FMD and other topical issues…Read More
Forget tradition and focus on profitability. That’s one of the key messages from livestock and genetics industry innovator, Tom Bull, who sits down with The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week for a chat.
The high profile Holbrook, NSW lamb genetics provider is a regular speaker at beef industry gatherings across the country, providing an ‘outsiders perspective’ on approaches to genetic and business development…Read More
This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Mick Crowley, MLA’s general manager for research, development and adoption.
In a wide ranging interview, the pair discuss the prioritisation and allocation of industry funds to R&D, and the industry service delivery company’s focus on ‘Fewer, bigger, bolder,” R&D projects…Read More
This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Andy Hearnden, executive chef with beef processor Kilcoy Global Foods. Andy has become something of a social media sensation, produced a suite of inspiring and motivating video clips encouraging young chefs and keen home cooks to push the boundaries in how they select, prepare and cook red meat cuts…Read More
This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Jim Lindsay, the founder of the Low Stress Stock Handling movement. Over the past 30 years, Jim and his co-facilitators have delivered hundreds of LSS courses across Australia, imprinting thousands of beef producers with better understanding about work cattle…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week ventured out to the Brisbane Ekka to turn up the heat on Greg Pankhurst, Queensland Livestock Exporters Association president. In a wide ranging interview, the pair discuss current market conditions, FMD, impacts on exports, plus what that means for Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Brazil… and more…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week ventured out to the Brisbane Ekka to turn up the heat on Northern Territory Cattlemens Association President and Tipperary Group GM, David Connolly. Mr Connolly was one of the keynote speakers at today’s Droughtmaster 60th anniversary seminar…Read More
This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on our regular cattle market commentators, Chris Howie from Stockco, and Matt Dalgleish from Thomas Elder Markets. There have been some dramatic movements in the Australian store and slaughter cattle markets since the trio last came together back in June…Read More
This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on industry identity David Larkin, head of Kimberley Meat Co processing business near Broome…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Beef Central’s ‘Man on the ground’ in Indonesia, Dr Ross Ainsworth, on the rapidly escalating Foot & Mouth Disease crisis, and what it means for Australia..Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on veteran Queensland red meat processor, Trevor Lee…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Central Queensland working dog legend, Frank Finger, fresh from his appearances on ABC TV’s Working Dogs series…Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on newly-minted Federal Agriculture Minister, Murray Watt, touching on broad-ranging issues including regional jobs and the industry’s underlying labour shortage, biosecurity challenges including FMD and Lumpy Skin Disease, energy prices, livestock export trade and carbon emissions…Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on young NSW Wagyu beef producer, Charlie Perry, the 2022 Zanda McDonald award winner for young industry stakeholders, and current president of the Australian Wagyu Association..Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on StockCo’s Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets’ Matt Dalgleish, in our latest cattle markets wrap for the year. The pair explore the current drivers for young cattle, breeding cattle and slaughter cattle prices and where the markets may head in coming months…Read More
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with northern Australian cattleman Peter Hughes, who has forged a vast grazing empire across Queensland and the Northern Territory over the past 40 years…Read More
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Barb Madden from Smithfield Cattle Co, president of the Australian Lot Feeders Association…Read More
The Weekly Grills host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Sally Warriner, who recently published her memoirs having spent nearly 25 years living in the outback on cattle stations with her former husband, Ken…Read More
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Ian McConnel, president of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef…Read More
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Australia’s chief veterinary officer Dr Mark Schipp, discussing latest biosecurity issues of relevance to the beef industry – and in in particular, the looming threat of Lumpy Skin Disease…Read More
Rural property: what’s happening, and where are values headed? The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Herron Todd White’s Tim Lane, discussing some of the key messages from HTW’s recent annual rural property briefings held in Brisbane and Melbourne…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on RCS’s Terry McCosker, aiming to better understand the increasingly complex carbon sequestion and trading market. In a wide-ranging conversation, the pair touch on a range of topics from carbon offsets, likely future price trends in the carbon market, tax implications for carbon projects and what a change of government might mean for the carbon market…Read More
On the eve of the 200th Royal Easter Show in Sydney next week, the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on two prominent people involved in cattle showing and competition in Royal shows in Sydney and Brisbane. Sydney show chief beef cattle steward Al Rayner and Brisbane show’s chief beef cattle steward Gary Noller have seen stud show rings and led steer judging evolve over the last 40 years…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Wagyu industry pioneer, David Blackmore…Read More
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on beef processing plant manager Wasa Mudannayake. Sri Lankan born Wasa has experienced an extraordinary career path, starting in the casual labour queue at Beenleigh, before rising through the ranks to become general manager at Teys Lakes Creek – one of the largest meat plants in Australia…Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on grazing industry identity Jock Whittle, the head of asset performance for MIRA Agriculture for the Macquarie Group, who spent 12 years as chief executive officer of Paraway Pastoral Co…Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on veteran red meat industry leader David Crombie, touching on wide ranging topics from the phenomenal success of the Meat Standards Australia program to opportunities for beef in the carbon trading era, and Australia’s trading relationship with China…Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Beef Central’s regular live export market commentator and columnist, Dr Ross Ainsworth. Ross has spent a lifetime working in the Australian live cattle export industry, including lengthy periods living and working in-market. In this episode he explores prospects for live export cattle prices for 2022, how major markets like Indonesia and Vietnam are performing, and competition from other protein suppliers in South America and India. ..Read More
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on StockCo’s Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets’ Matt Dalgleish, in our first markets wrap for the year. The pair explore the current drivers for young cattle, breeding cattle and slaughter cattle prices and where the markets may head in coming months…Read More
Kicking off this year’s Weekly Grill podcast series today, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Australian Meat Industry Council chief executive, Patrick Hutchinson. In a wide ranging interview, the pair explore the challenges ahead for red meat processors and retailers, including labour issues, livestock supply, consumer meat buying habits during COVID, and key export market access issues…Read More
Marking National Agriculture Day today, this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series sees host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat again on Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud ..Read More
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, discussing the current rain event’s impact on cattle supply and price, heading into 2022…Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Garry Edwards, founder and managing director of AAM Investment Group…Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Angus Australia’s chief executive officer Peter Parnell, who retires in February next year, having managed the nation’s largest breed society for the past twelve and a half years. Dr Parnell has presided over a period of dramatic growth for the Angus breed in Australia, driven in part by relentless breed improvement delivered through objective measurement…Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns the clock back to the 1970s, to take a look at the Great Aussie Cattle Slump. The years 1974-78 were without question the toughest that the Australian cattle industry has ever seen. He talks to three senior industry stakeholders who lived through it…Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on MLA chief executive Jason Strong, covering wide-ranging topics from the industry’s progress towards carbon neutral 2030, new emphasis on extension and producer uptake in R&D, plant-based proteins and management of industry levy funds during the current low beef production cycle ..Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on feedlot industry and grainfed branded beef pioneer Robin Hart, founder of Stockyard Beef…Read More
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 NSW was devastating rural livelihoods and communities. In response, rural-dwelling, self-employed mum, Grace, started a social media campaign, #buyfromthebush, and online marketplace connecting talented makers, creators, artists and retailers from rural Australia with global consumers. It has turned into an ecommerce phenomenon…Read More
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…Read More
On the Weekly Grill with Kerry Lonergan this week is Marcus Rathsmann, President of Council of Australia. A Northern Territory beef producer, Marcus 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’s On The Grill this week…Read More
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…Read More
In this week’s episode, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on veteran pastoral company identity Roger Halliwell, who spent a lifetime working with the legendary Stanbroke Pastoral Co. Prior to its sale by AMP in 2006, Stanbroke ran the largest cattle herd in the world, topping 650,000 head at one point. The company was a pioneer of many developments now commonplace in the industry, including composite breeding, extension from grassfed production into lotfeeding, and retail brand development…Read More
In this week’s episode, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on red meat industry identity Richard Rains, the former head of exporter, Sanger Australia. A passionate crusader for the red meat industry, Richard has strong views on wide ranging topics including fake meat, the need for more branding to lift Australian beef out of the commodity space, and how the industry should respond to attacks from animal activists and environmentalists over its sustainability performance…Read More
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?..Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on low-and-slow BBQ king, Grant Coleman – a former runner-up in the World BBQ Championships in Houston, Texas. ..Read More
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. What does the future hold for RMAC? How has a loophole created by changes to food standards regulations three years ago opened the door for plant based proteins to be able to use ‘meat’ labels?..Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on RNA councillor and Beef Cattle Committee chairman Gary Noller, and Northern NSW stud cattle breeder and exhibitor Rob Sinnamon. How does the future look for stud cattle showing in Australia? What is the beef industry learning from the RNA Paddock to Palate Challenge competitions, which have risen in prominence over the past ten years?..Read More
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 fifty-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 the money they are today?..Read More
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…Read More
In this week’s episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on veteran Queensland beef processor and supply chain manager, Australian Country Choice’s David Foote…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
In this week’s episode, 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…Read More
In this week’s episode, 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…Read More
In this week’s episode, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on prominent nutrition scientist and MLA special skills board member, Manny Noakes. Prof Noakes 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’. ..Read More
In this week’s episode, 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…Read More
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 event…Read More
In this Beef 2021 special episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, 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…Read More
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 last week. In this episode of The Weekly Grill, 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…Read More
What’s ahead for property market amid an unprecendented period of super heated cattle prices, super low interest and improved seasonal conditions in many areas?..Read More
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…Read More
In this week’s episode, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on the domestic retail beef market, in a probing discussion on consumer issues, beef branding and the post-COVID retail environment with successful Sydney butcher Stephen Kelly, head of the Sutcliffe Meats chain of 10 retail outlets…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
This week on The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with livestock transport industry legend Ross Fraser, from Fraser’s Transport…Read More
A number of readers have asked about accessing Beef Central’s new podcast series, The Weekly Grill, via notifications from podcast channels. Here’s some useful information…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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..Read More
