A great discussion with Rod Hannifey regarding road safely and heavy vehicles.  For information regarding Rod's work go to: Share the RoadThe site has a range of information videos for children and adults on sharing the road - well worth viewing and here's one example: Truckies Tips # 7

Thanks to Martin Bella for his time and thoughts around the Queensland elections, fisheries and agriculture policy. This podcast was recorded on 1 March 2020.

Thanks to Martin Bella for his time and thoughts around the Queensland elections, fisheries and agriculture policy. This podcast was recorded on 1 March 2020.

Thanks to Shelley Scoullar for her time to discuss issues around Australian agriculture.  Shelley is the Chair of Speak Up.  Speak Up was established by a group of passionate farmers in the Southern Riverina. Their aim is to highlight the issues impacting Southern New South Wales and Northern Victoria.Link: Speak Up

Thanks to Rhys Bosley for a great summary of ongoing concerns with the management of our State Forests.Please sign to let the Queensland political parties know that we expect them to keep Queensland State Forests open for commercial and recreational use, if they want our votes at the 2020 Queensland election.Stop turning our State Forests into National ParksPlease also like the Queensland State Forest Alliance Facebook page to keep up to date with news on how to be involved in promoting the petition.Queensland State Forest Alliance Facebook

Welcome to another great set of podcasts this Saturday 1 February.  Today's podcast involves a discussion I had with Caitlin Vayro, a recent Phd graduate from the University of Southern Queensland.  Her PhD was focused on the barriers and facilitators of mental health help-seeking in primary producers.If the podcast has raised any distressing feelings, please contact:(24/7) Country Callback line on 1800 54 33 54(24/7) Lifeline on 13 11 14. (24/7) Beyondblue on 1300 22 4636You may also wish to consider consulting your General Practitioner (GP) for additional support.

This episode focuses on biosecurity and a fantastic overview of the status of biosecurity provided by Jim Willmott.I have added some links to documents and websites mentioned in the podcast.Queensland Biosecurity Capability Review 2015Queensland invasive plants and animals strategy 2019–2024Queensland Seafood Industry Association - Biosecurity

This podcast was made necessary as a result of the impacts of devaluation of quota in the Queensland Spanner Crab fishery.The implications of this on commercial fishers is explained in detail by Richard Hamilton, a commercial fisher with 40 years experience who is now dealing with the impacts of poor fisheries management decisions taken by Fisheries Queensland.Richard has shared his experiences with quota management amongst industry and the community in many formats including:1. Queensland Fisheries Reform: Ep #07 (Part 1)QSIA YouTube Channel2. Queensland Fisheries Reform: Ep #07 (Part 2)QSIA YouTube Channel3. QSIA News Posts, 7 December 2018Quota Managed Fisheries: Spanner Crab4. Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) Podcast, 2 August 2018Queensland Spanner Crab Fishery5. Queensland Seafood magazineIssue No 4 - 20196. Queensland Seafood magazineIssue No 3 - 2019

Welcome to 2020 and my first set of podcasts are focused on the Queensland seafood industry.i had the opportunity to speak with Martin Bowerman, a great supporter of the commercial fishing industry.  Not only has Martin worked across industry but has media, public relations and has worked as a media advisor for Senator Ron Boswell and Senator Matt Canavan, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia.You can contact Martin at Bowerman and Associates on mobile 0428 303 189 or email [email protected] more information regarding the issues facing Queensland commercial fishers through the State's so-called reform process please use the following Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) link: QSIA News PostsThe paper referred to in the podcast regarding a 60 percent unfished biomass target set by the Queensland Government can be accessed here (the article is an extract from Queensland Seafood 2019 Number 3): Professor Robert Kearney article

Welcome, welcome and welcome to the introduction to Sea and Land Harvest.  More content will be available the first weekend of every month.If you have any topics you would like covered please contact me atIf you are interested in becoming podcaster at large for the program please send me your contact mobile.  If you might be interested in supporting through advertisements or sponsorship please contact me at [email protected] am looking forward to more programs and to sharing issues that matter to food producers across Australia.