The economic woes of the world haven’t taken much of an edge off demand for quality beef in the UK and Europe, according to Britain’s largest Wagyu supplier. Tom Richardson, the managing director of Warrendale Wagyu, based in Yorkshire, said rising cost of living prices hadn’t taken the edge off demand for premium beef with […]
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 […]
Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme changes announced last week could be the “final nail in the coffin” for many small Australian farmer operations, while facilitating the growth of larger businesses able to absorb the program’s new wage guarantee arrangements. That’s according to leading horticulture expert Matt Palise, the managing director of Red Rich Fruits, a […]
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. […]
On this week’s episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff is joined by The Weekly Times dairy reporter Alex Sinnott. We chat all things milk, with the milk price expert, Richard Lange, from Milk2Market, including last weeks’ release of milk prices for the 2023/2024 milk season. Click to check the original article.
In this episode of the Australian Ag Podcast, we take a look back on a panel discussion from the 2023 Global Food Forum, which looked at investment expectations in a time of increasing interest rates and how the agriculture industry is adapting their strategies to ensure future returns. This panel features Liam Lenaghan, Managing Director, […]
Nicole Saunders and her husband Brendan jumped the ditch from New Zealand to Gippsland five years ago and have gone from dairy sharefarmers to farm owners, increasing turnover a whopping 10-fold in that time. The couple, who milk 1600 cows across three properties totalling 780 hectares, took out the top gong at The Weekly Times […]
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 […]
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 […]