This week on the The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff is joined by co-host Jackson Hewett and the Managing Director, from Warrendale Wagyu, Tom Richardson. Warrendale Wagyu, is Britain’s largest wagyu operation and currently supplies two of the nations’ biggest retail chains. They discuss the wagyu market in Europe as cost of living pressures […]
On this week’s episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff and Jackson Hewett chat with Matt Palise, the managing director of Red Rich Fruits, on the challenges and opportunities in the horticulture space. It follows the federal government’s recent changes to the Pacific Labour Mobility Scheme, which has left growers and industry seething. […]
Nuveen Natural Capital is an investment arm of the massive US teachers pension fund TIAA. With $2.2 billion under management here in Australia, Nuveen is the third largest investor in Australian ag. We talk to their head of APAC and Africa Kristina Hermanson about the global investment landscape for agricultural assets, where she sees the […]
It has been a big year for agribusiness, with record highs set for commodities and farmland. But the big question is whether the good times can go on? To find out what 2023 has in store, hosts Jackson Hewett and James Wagstaff talk to Andrew Whitelaw and Matt Dalgleish from agribusiness analytics firm Episode3. Produced […]
The drenching received by the Southeast of the country continues to make cropping a nightmare as fields are flooded or become bogged, and water affected crops spoil. To find out how it is affected the grain industry, and what farmers can do, even at this late stage, we talk to Andrew Weidemann from Grain Producers […]
Following Labor’s first budget, which saw a number of cuts to programs previously announced by the Coalition, David Littleproud says the government has “ripped the guts out of regional communities”. PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Jessica Radel, a young woman who is blazing a trail as head stockwoman on Wave Hill station in […]
How much would you pay for a kilo of top quality lamb chops? Well Tom Bull of Kinross Station reckons his are worth 100 bucks a kilo, saying his Hampshire Downs lambs has marbling traits that put them on a par with the best cuts of beef. It’s a clever strategy to go super-premium when […]
Australia looks likely to join more than 100 countries around the world, including the EU, the US, and Indonesia pledge a 30 per cent global cut in methane emissions by 2030. The Opposition says it will ‘put an end to the BBQ’, and drive up prices, but will it be that bad? We talk to […]