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As part of Beef Central's Top 25 Livestock Transporters feature running this month (click here to access) Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week chats to Gerard Johnson, president of the Australian Livestock & Rural Transporters Association.
The pair discuss some of the big issues being faced by the livestock transport industry, including regulatory matters, driver access, cost-to-operate, and road condition and access.
The Top 25 Transporters feature coincides with today's ALRTA annual conference being staged in Canberra, being attended by Beef Central's James Nason, along with about 200 delegates from across the nation.
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Five gun Australian retail butchers are competing in the World Butchers' Challenge taking place in Paris France this weekend. Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan talks with team captain, South Australian butcher, Luke Leyson about this unique competition, and Australia's chances among the 24 nations competing.
Kerry and Luke discuss the Australian team's chances at the prestigious international event.
The podcast covers:
• Australia's previous performances at the event• How the team prepares• Our greatest rivals• The competitions' format • What the judges are looking for and how the winner is adjudicated
They also talk about the shape of Australia's retail butchering business, value-adding, the rise of pre-prepared meals, staffing issues... and more.
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In this week's episode, Kerry Lonergan discusses possible US Tariff scenarios with global meat trader and analyst, Simon Quilty from market intelligence firm, Global AgriTrends. Then attention turns to MLA's three year projections as Kerry chats with MLA's Market Information Manager, Stephen Bignell.
Simon Quilty, Global Agribusiness• Possible US Tariff implications• The economic factors the US should be taking into account• Best case scenario for Australia’s beef industry• Should there be a different tariff for grinding meat Vs quality beef cuts?• America lamb markets• Alternative export markets for grinding meat• The US traceability system• Biosecurity issues Stephen Bignell, MLA Manager - Market Information • MLA Market Projections for the next 3 years• Boxed beef markets: Indonesia and Vietnam • China - what are they buying?• The Middle Eastern high-end market• Carcase weights - producing more with less• The Live trade outlook• Local cold storage limitations -
This week’s Weekly Grill podcast features Beef Central’s regular US-based columnist Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers Weekly, on recent tariff developments between the US and major trading partners.
While the fast-moving nature of the topic means there’s been developments on a couple of points since this item was recorded, much of the general sentiment remains.
Topics discussed include:
• President Trump’s delayed announcement of Tariffs
• What the tariffs could mean for Mexico and Canada… and repercussions for Australia
• How are US meat packers dealing with reduced supply?
• The prospect of Aussie feeder cattle going to the US?
• Any sign of the herd rebuilding?
• Carcase weights. Are they too big?
• More dry conditions forecast.
• Have US export numbers dropped?
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Teys Australia feedlot general manager Grant Garey assumed the reins as president of the grainfed sector's peak body, ALFA, in November.
He arrives in the role at an important inflection point for the grainfed industry. During this podcast conversation with Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan, the pair discuss recent industry growth, appetite for further expansion, how water access is challenging some projects and the rising costs of feedlot development.
Other topics on the block include:
The issue of accessing grain/protecting against droughtLabour challenges, and ALFA’s Feedlot X initiativeOngoing work with using methane-inhibiting feed additives in the intensive feeding industryEmerging technologies of use to lotfeedersThe impact of providing shade in feedlots, and where the industry is up to in achieving its shade objectiveHow lotfeeding is influencing average carcase weights across the industry. -
It's been 28 years since Australia last hosted a World Angus Congress, and interest across the Angus world is already reaching fever pitch ahead of the 2025 event being held in Brisbane and Tamworth in May.
In today's episode, podcast host Kerry Lonergan chats with Angus Australia's Scott Wright about preparations for the once-in-a-generation event. Up to 1000 Angus stakeholders from across Australia, New Zealand, North and South America and Europe are expected to gather for the Congress, Forum, and support events.
Already some red-hot tropics are emerging, including:
Where to from here for Angus genetic progress? Can current rates of gain on eating quality, fertility and carcase traits be maintained?With US fed cattle carcase weights now pushing 900 pounds, is carcase size a concern in the Angus industry?The concepts and challenges of the Australian Beef Industry's quest for Carbon Neutral 2030Scott provides a valuable run-down on what stakeholders attending the event can expect.
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In today's episode, Kerry chats with veteran strategic researcher, Howard Parry-Husbands.
• Working with MLA
• Looking at the data to understand red meat eaters
• Red meat consumption in Australia
• Guilt fatigue (consumers now questioning the facts)
• What the numbers and research data tells us about the negativity towards eating red meat / animal welfare and ethics in red meat production
• Do plant-based foods pose a threat to the red meat industry? Do they have a future in our supermarkets?
• Productivity and sustainability
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In today's episode of The Weekly Grill, Kerry Lonergan chats with the Red Meat Advisory Council Independent Chair, John McKillop.
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Welcome back to Beef Central popular Weekly Grill podcast series for 2025.
Today's first episode for the year sees the return of regular market watchers, RMA's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish.
Weather conditions over the next couple of months will have a strong bearing on slaughter and store cattle prices heading deeper into 2025, the pair suggest in today's discussion with host. Other topics range from the impact of Trump's tariff actions, prospects for beef sales into the US, where cattle and beef prices are at record highs after the drought driven herd collapse, currency movements and other factors.
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As the festive season draws closer, pressure on the nation’s critically important charity groups like Foodbank reaches its height.
Foodbank is the largest hunger relief charity in Australia, providing the ‘food pantry’ to the charity sector across the country. This year alone, Foodbank sourced enough food for more than 92 million meals, and the number grows as cost of living pressures continue to mount.
In this final Weekly Grill podcast episode for the year, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Foodbank Australia chief executive Brianna Casey, and chief transformation officer Michael Davidson about the massive task at hand, and how people can help. Michael shares progress on the beef sector’s engagement with Foodbank, and the associated BeefBank concept.
The Weekly Grill will return with a new series in 2025.
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FOOD securuty has been in the news this week, and in today’s episode of the Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Andrew Henderson from AgSecure
Andrew is the principal of Agsecure, the independent chair of the Safemeat Advisory Group and a former adviser to the federal government on biosecurity and the red meat and livestock sector.
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A glimpse into the future of artificial breeding in the cattle industry is provided in this week’s podcast, where Nbryo’s Nick Cameron and Gerard Davis talk through the company’s ambitious plans to ‘condense seven years into seven days’ using a suite of novel technologies that promise to re-imagine livestock systems for future food resilience.
By any reasonable measure, the broader scope of the Nbryo project is visionary, and potentially far reaching. The technology is designed to have equal application for a progressive beef producer in Australia looking to produce more efficient and environmentally friendly beef, as it is for a smallholder farmer in Bangladesh with two head of cattle, who could improve his or her productivity by as much as 50pc in a single generation.
For this reason the project has attracted some serious early financial backers, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Today's Weekly Grill podcast continues our occasional markets series, with host Kerry Lonergan talking with regular markets commentators RMA's Chris Howie and Ep3's Matt Dalgleish.
Weather conditions over the next couple of months will have a strong bearing on slaughter and store cattle prices heading into 2025, regular markets contributors Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish suggest in today's episode of the Weekly Grill podcast.
The pair also discuss the impact of the Trump victory in Wednesday's US elections on Australia trade, the prospects for more Australian beef into the US next years as US herd recovery kicks in, and where the bargains are likely to be found over the next six months in the store market.
This will be the last markets update in Beef Central's Weekly Grill podcast series for 2024.
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In this week's episode of the Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan sits down with respected leader for change and 2024 Nuffield Scholar, Catherine Marriott who was invited to present at the BeefEx feedlot convention in Brisbane recently.
Over the last 20 years, Catherine has worked as an executive, a non-executive director and consulting roles in the agricultural, reseach and regional development sectors in Australia and internationally. During this time, she has become a proven business leader, communicator and organisational renovator, focussed mostly on leadership development, advocacy and delivering innovative solutions for the industries in which she works.
In this episode the pair discuss Catherine's journey through the Nuffield program, ESG (Environmental Social Governance) and where it started, its impact across Europe, Asia and the United States, and how if impacts Australian agriculture.
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In this episode of the Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan sits down with Charlie Arnot, CEO of the Centre for Food Integrity, who spoke at the grainfed beef industry's BeefEx conference in Brisbane last week.
He spoke about how global expectations around animal welfare are shaping beef production practices in Australia, and how the industry can help protect its freedom to operate.
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This week Kerry Lonergan sat down with international economist and political theorist, Ralph Schoellhammer following his presentation at Beef Ex 2024.
Professor Schoellhammer specialises in the intersection of political philosophy and energy policies. His work explores how cultural convictions influence policy outcomes, particularly regarding energy, industry, and agriculture, addressing what he sees as a cultural self hate in the West.
As reported earlier this week, Professor Schoellhammer advocates 'The world needs more Australian agriculture and mining". However, as Kerry and the professor discuss, the challenge lies in changing deep-rooted idealologies.
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Momentum continues to grow in the sustainable and renewable energy field, with plenty of applications emerging in the beef industry's processing and lotfeeding sectors, especially.
In this week's Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan talks with Carl Duncan, former sustainability officer with Teys Australia who now heads sustainable energy solutions provider NRG-One.
The company helps agribusinesses reduce their carbon footprint for a variety of reasons, from reducing operating costs to making brand claims around carbon reduction.
How far can solar, methane capture and wind projects go in the bush?
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The head of the vertically-integrated Stockyard grainfed beef business, Lachie Hart, sat down last week for an extended chat with Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan.
Among a host of topics touched on by the pair was Stockyard’s experiences as one of Australia’s trail blazers in the field of sustainability performance-linked finance; the rapidly growing cost to operate in the commercial lotfeeding industry; Stockyard as a multi-generational family business; trials and adoption of new technologies like live animal scanning for marbling performance; and how the Stockyard business has evolved from its earlier heavy focus on Japan to other high-value export markets like the Middle East.
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There's a lot happening in the international and domestic environment that's shaping the Australian rural property market heading towards 2025, leading property marketing identity Danny Thomas tells Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan in this week's episode.
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Young Scotswoman Claire Taylor has risen in prominence as an ag communicator since tackling a Nuffield Scholarship last year, helping turn the tide on the global anti-farming agenda.
Farming is coming under increasing fire on multiple fronts, and the industry has a job to do, to rise above the noise and present a stronger, more united voice against many of the criticisms thrown at its door, she tells Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan in this week’s episode.
Throughout her Nuffield scholarship, Claire uncovered brilliant examples where farming has a voice at the decision-making table and strong relations with policymakers, the media, and members of the public. Her objective is to share these stories and encourage farmers to step outside the agricultural echo chamber and better communicate with members of the public, media and politicians, to ensure their voices are not only heard, but valued.
Claire grew up on a small beef farm on the west coast of Scotland, later studying Politics and International Relations at Edinburgh University. She spent ten years working with the BBC and the Scottish Farmer – first as a reporter and later as political editor - covering the ag sector she cares so passionately about.
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