This week on the The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff is joined by co-host Jackson Hewett and the Managing Director, from Warrendale Wagyu, Tom Richardson.

Warrendale Wagyu, is Britain's largest wagyu operation and currently supplies two of the nations' biggest retail chains. They discuss the wagyu market in Europe as cost of living pressures rise and as the Australian-UK Free Trade Agreement comes into play.

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On this week’s episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff and Jackson Hewett chat with Matt Palise, the managing director of Red Rich Fruits, on the challenges and opportunities in the horticulture space. It follows the federal government’s recent changes to the Pacific Labour Mobility Scheme, which has left growers and industry seething.

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On this week's episode of The Australian Ag Podcast, host James Wagstaff is joined by The Weekly Times dairy reporter Alex Sinnott. We chat all things milk, with the milk price expert, Richard Lange, from Milk2Market, including last weeks' release of milk prices for the 2023/2024 milk season. 

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In this episode of the Australian Ag Podcast, we take a look back on a panel discussion from the 2023 Global Food Forum, which looked at investment expectations in a time of increasing interest rates and how the agriculture industry is adapting their strategies to ensure future returns.

This panel features Liam Lenaghan, Managing Director, goFARM Australia, Kristina Hermanson, Head of APAC and Africa, Managing Director at Nuveen Natural Capital, David Williams, Managing Director at Kidder Williams and The Weekly Times Editor, James Wagstaff.

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Nicole Saunders and her husband Brendan jumped the ditch from New Zealand to Gippsland five years ago and have gone from dairy sharefarmers to farm owners, increasing turnover a whopping 10-fold in that time. The couple, who milk 1600 cows across three properties totalling 780 hectares, took out the top gong at The Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year awards in February. 

In this episode, Nicole reveals the secret to their successful expansion.

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Nuveen Natural Capital is an investment arm of the massive US teachers pension fund TIAA. With $2.2 billion under management here in Australia, Nuveen is the third largest investor in Australian ag. We talk to their head of APAC and Africa Kristina Hermanson about the global investment landscape for agricultural assets, where she sees the next opportunities and why natural capital is becoming such an important concept for consumers, investors and farmers.

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Cattle prices have been plummeting, and Wagyu has been particularly hard hit with prices down as much as 50% in six months. How is the industry responding?

To find out what is going on, Weekly Times editor James Wagstaff and I dropped in on the Australian Wagyu Association annual conference where we caught up with AWA President Charlie Perry.

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Carbon sequestration is becoming a hot topic in the ag industry, with the value of an ACCU, or Australian Carbon Credit Unit forecast to soar, according to a recent report by National Australia Bank.

That could be a handy addition to a farmer’s bottom line but the industry is still in its infancy, with new players emerging all the time, and a confusing barrage of information about how the rules works.

Matt Egerton-Warburton is a partner at Gadens Law firm in Sydney and a director of the Mulloon Institute and is worried will the wild west nature of the carbon sequestration market see farmers locked in to lopsided contracts.

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It has been a big year for agribusiness, with record highs set for commodities and farmland.

But the big question is whether the good times can go on?

To find out what 2023 has in store, hosts Jackson Hewett and James Wagstaff talk to Andrew Whitelaw and Matt Dalgleish from agribusiness analytics firm Episode3.

Produced and edited by Eartha Hewett

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Australia’s shearing industry is stretched to breaking point as it struggles to service a burgeoning national flock.

A perfect storm of a wet spring, a jump in Covid cases and a competitive labour market is making it nearly impossible for some producers to secure shearers on time or even at all with the industry looking to India in the hope of sourcing staff.

The current shearing award is $3.47 a sheep but growers are paying far more than that and waiting up to 8 weeks to get their flocks shorn.

We talk to WoolProducers Australia president Steve Harrison after the break to discuss the issue.

Produced and edited by Eartha Hewett

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