Join us this week as we discuss commodity price grain and oil seed forecasting with the Founder and Managing Director of Market Check, Brett Stevenson.

Brett Stevenson, comes from a pioneer farming family in the Central West of NSW, founded AgRisk Management Pty to provide a range of grain marketing and risk management services to Australian grain growers.

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Join us this week as we discuss commodity price forecasting with the Founder and Managing Director of Market Check, Brett Stevenson. 

Brett Stevenson, comes from a pioneer farming family in the Central West of NSW, founded AgRisk Management Pty to provide a range of grain marketing and risk management services to Australian grain growers.

Brett brought a team of expert analysts and advisers together in anticipation of the deregulation of the wheat industry and in 1996 the trading name “Market Check” was established. The company has grown to become Australia’s most highly respected and widely used independent grain marketing program for grain farmers with over 4,000 growers having attended Market Check Seminars and over 1,000 becoming members of Market Check.

Succession planing in Agriculture often can be a highly emotive issue and one that can have a significant impact on the ongoing success of a family farming operation.

This week's podcast is final episode in a series that has looked closely at this issue and ways we can best manage the process to maximise chances of a successful outcome.

Succession planing in Agriculture often can be a highly emotive issue and one that can have a significant impact on the ongoing success of a family farming operation.

This week's podcast is part three of a series that looks closely at this issue and ways that we can best manage the process to maximises our chance of a successful outcome.

Succession planing in Agriculture often can be a highly emotive issue and one that can have a significant impact on the ongoing success of a family farming operation. 

This week's podcast is Part 2 of a three part series that looks closely at this issue and ways that we can best manage the process to maximises our chance of a successful outcome.

Succession planing in Agriculture can often be a highly emotive issue and one which can have a significant impact on the ongoing success of a family farming operation. This week's podcast is Part 1 of a three part series that looks closely at this issue and ways that we can best manage the process to maximises our chance of a successful outcome.  

What makes a good decision and why might that be different to a right decision? Why is it important for farm managers to understand the difference and can we learn how to make better decisions?

It has been my experience, working with farmers across Australia, that successful farmers are very skilled at decision making and these skills of good decision making can be learnt.

Cam Nicholson, Ag Consultant and farmer joins us to discuss and how farmers can improve the decision-making process to make better decisions in a very risky business environment.

John Francis  from Holmes and Sackett -Farm Consulting company joins the Marcus Ag Talk Podcast to discuss the questions around high performing farmers and what characterises them and are there common themes that we can identify and learn from .

In 2019, The Centre For The Study of Agribusiness at Marcus Oldham was lucky enough to secure Professor Kevin Folta as the keynote speaker at a special luncheon at Marcus Oldham. 

Kevin M. Folta is a Professor in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida.  His research program examines how light signals are sensed in plants and how different parts of the spectrum can change shelf life and high-value fruit and vegetable traits. His group also uses novel genomics approaches to identify genes related to flavor and disease resistance. An innovative new project is testing a method to create new small-molecule drugs for use in everything from plant growth regulation to MRSA.

He has been recognised for his science communication efforts, speaking with public audiences, and training scientists and agricultural producers to be better communicators. In 2016 he was recognised with the prestigious CAST Borlaug Award in Agricultural Communications and was named as the Ag Pro Person of the Year.  He also hosts the weekly podcast Talking Biotech (www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com), with over 200 episodes and one million downloads.  

Join us as Kevin discusses the future of Biotechnology in Agriculture. 

Join Dave Cornish, Director of the Centre of Study of Agribusiness at Marcus Oldham, as he talks with the movers and shakers of the Ag world about the issues affecting the agribusiness world for Marcus Oldham's AgTalk. 

In this episode Dave talks with NAB Agribusiness Economist , Phin Ziebell, about what the current world events means for farmers and how it may impact them.