CAN Australia do more with its red meat production than simply putting it in a box and selling it in chilled or frozen form? Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week sits down with successful beef jerky manufacturer Emily Pullen, whose family produces the popular Jim's Jerky range in Queensland.

Jim's Jerky ploughs through about four tonnes of grassfed topsides each week producing its tasty beef snacks, marketed through major domestic supermarket retailers, roadhouses and exported into a large number of overseas countries.