RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness Australia/NZ

The Rabobank Rural Commodity Price Index rose another 3.26% in August, the highest level in more than 12 years. Senior Analysts in Australia's RaboResearch team Angus Gidley Baird and Cheryl Kalisch Gordon share views on this surge as well as the team's latest outlooks from Rabobank's September Agribusiness Monthly.

The 2021 Cotton Collective was another Covid cancellation, so Rabobank's Senior Commodities Analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon and Global Strategist Michael Every catch up to discuss the world view and implications for Australian cotton that Michael was planning to share at the event.

Rabobank's Senior Dairy Analyst Emma Higgins is joined by Animal Protein Analyst Genevieve Steven to discuss why New Zealand is experiencing record farmgate pricing amid global beef supply chain disruptions.

Rabobank's Global Grains & Oilseeds Strategist Stefan Vogel joins Senior Grains & Oilseeds Analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon to consider how long global grain prices will sizzle, as the northern hemisphere's 2021 crops are harvested.

Emma Higgins and Michael Harvey have a close look at the latest movements and rankings of the world's largest dairy companies and reflect on the past two decades of change.

The US beef market has seen some phenomenal prices, which have provided support to Australia in the form of higher imported trimmings prices. In this podcast, Angus Gidley-Baird chats with Don Close in the US about the near-term future for the US beef market.

The European Commission has proposed 'Fit for 55', a package of policies aimed at reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. What does this mean for biofuel and, consequently, canola demand? Our G&O analyst in Australia, Dennis Voznesenski, chats with Rabobank's Global Strategist for Grains & Oilseeds, Stefan Vogel.

This episode also appears on our sister podcast RaboResearch Agri Commodities

Wes Lefroy and Michael Harvey undertake a half-time health check on food markets to look at how they are performing and what the second half might look like.

With prices buoyant for this time of the year, it's a good story all around for NZ sheepmeat farmers. Emma Higgins and Angus Gidley Baird discuss the drivers underpinning optimism in this sector.

Angus Gidley-Baird and Michael Harvey join forces to dig a little deeper and assess how diversification is at play across the Australian dairy supply chain.