In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on feedlot industry and grainfed branded beef pioneer Robin Hart, founder of Stockyard Beef.

From humble beginnings in 1965 feeding a few hundred cattle for local butchers at his Berwick property near Jondaryan on southern Queensland's Darling Downs, Robin's Stockyard Beef business rose in parallel with the fortunes of the feedlot sector.

Robin talks about the evolution of the Australian feedlot industry over the past half century, the emergence of the Japanese market as a major customer for Australian grainfed beef, the drive for quality through grain finishing, the arrival of beef brands and product description, and more recent trends including diversification into Wagyu programs.