With a bumper harvest comes local price pressure, but overseas markets are abuzz and our growers are now reaping in good harvest and good prices. Nick Booth joins us this week to talk about the current market drivers - tight supplies, government interference and rampant buying activity by China.

On today's show we have Adam Mountjoy, southern region livestock manager for Nutrien in to talk with Robert Herrmann, director of Mercardo, about the bouyant market we find ourselves in at present. All our main commodity markets seem to be going strong at the moment, so we thought it would be good to get Adam in to hear what's been happening at the saleyards. Tune in to hear what it's been like on the ground for this week's episode with Adam and Rob. 

After a strong start to the year across all markets, David Myers and managing director of Mecardo Robert Herrmann take a moment to take stock of the key trends market so far this year. On today's episode we cover sheep, cattle and the wool markets. 

How do you build a farm business to make succession planning possible? That question was the main focus of an in-depth study into farm succession planning carried out by Dr Mike Stephens from Meridian Agriculture who joins us on this episode. 

Livestock commodity prices opened 2021 with a bang at the southern weaner sales. The weights, quality and prices were an impressive show. This week we have Angus Brown and Andrew Hosken joining Robert Hermann to discuss the results and what it means for the year ahead.

For our final podcast for the year, David Myers has a chat with Robert Herrmann and Olivia Agar about the highs, lows and surprises of 2020 and also about what to look out for next year. 

Thank you from the team at Mecardo, we always welcome sharing this podcast around and appreciate any feedback. We look forward to you tuning into Commodity Conversations in 2021. 

The wool market ended 2020 on a softer note, but has recovered well since September’s low. Mecardo analyst Andrew Woods joins Robert Herrmann this week to chat about how the wool market has performed this year and what we might expect as we move into 2021.

The southern weaner sales are just around the corner and prices are sure to be hot. Just how hot and what we can expect in terms of supply and buyers are questions on many minds, so for this episode, Olivia Agar chats to Mecardo analyst Angus Brown, and livestock specialist Andrew Hosken about what we're likely to see.

This week we are talking consumer trends with David Cornish, Director at Marcus Oldham Agricultural College, who shares some insight on the emerging consumer, what they are telling us and what we should be telling them.

The fertiliser market has been fed by the hands of India and China in 2020. In this episode, Olivia Agar is joined by Yao Yao, market research manager at Nutrien in Canada, to discuss the key drivers of supply and demand in N, P & K markets, as well as the outlook for fertiliser in 2021.