Livestock prices have turned significantly downwards, with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator losing 150c/kg in recent weeks and down 240c/kg compared to last year. To find out what’s going on, we talk to Tim McRea, chief economist at Auctions Plus.

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Bonny and Molly Penfold from Four Daughters sisters talk to Bianca Tarrant, a cattle farmer in Baryulgil NSW and founder of meat subscription business Our Cow. Founded in response to the drought and bushfires, the business now has a boning facility in Casino employing 60 people and counts 100 farmers as suppliers. 

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2015 Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year Grant Sims runs a mixed cropping business near Echuca and has gone from strength to strength since winning the award. Now he gives talks across the country on how to optimise yields by caring for the soil. 

PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Tom Middlebrook, who runs a dairy farm near Gloucester, NSW. After being hit hard by the Millennium Drought, Tom has devoted himself to creating a farming system that makes the most of their resources, with a keen focus on sustainable irrigation systems.

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2022 was one of the most unusual years for agriculture in recent memory and the conditions that have caused such upheaval are set to continue. Add to that a slowing global economy and 2023 will be a year to watch. Rabobank’s head of food and agri research for ANZ, Stefan Vogel tells reveals what’s in store.

PLUS Bonnie and Molly Penfold from Four Daughters will be talking to Shine Award winners for the youth category, Claire Harris and Kate Strong from Hoedowns for Country Towns. The duo have raised over $33,000 for charity by organising line dancing across the country.

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The drenching received by the Southeast of the country continues to make cropping a nightmare as fields are flooded or become bogged, and water affected crops spoil. To find out how it is affected the grain industry, and what farmers can do, even at this late stage, we talk to Andrew Weidemann from Grain Producers Australia.

PLUS Bonnie and Jemima Penfold from Four Daughters will be talking to Courtney Young from Woodstock Flour on how she and her husband are cutting out the middleman with their organic stoneground flour. They are now expanding into the boxed meat business.

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The National Farmers Federation has come out strongly against the government’s new industrial relations bill which puts multi-employer bargaining at its core. NFF chief executive Tony Mahar believes it will be bad news for the agricultural supply chain. PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Josh Murray of Josh’s Rainbow eggs, who turned a hobby business he started as a 9 year old into a major supermarket supplier.

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Following Labor’s first budget, which saw a number of cuts to programs previously announced by the Coalition, David Littleproud says the government has “ripped the guts out of regional communities”. PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Jessica Radel, a young woman who is blazing a trail as head stockwoman on Wave Hill station in the NT.

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How much would you pay for a kilo of top quality lamb chops? Well Tom Bull of Kinross Station reckons his are worth 100 bucks a kilo, saying his Hampshire Downs lambs has marbling traits that put them on a par with the best cuts of beef. It's a clever strategy to go super-premium when meat consumption is going down. PLUS Bonnie and Mollie Penfold of Four Daughters are chatting to Hugh Dawson,the 2021 Northern Territory Young Achiever of the Year. Hugh discusses his path into the agriculture industry, sustainability and the power of “thinking big”

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Australia looks likely to join more than 100 countries around the world, including the EU, the US, and Indonesia pledge a 30 per cent global cut in methane emissions by 2030. The Opposition says it will ‘put an end to the BBQ’, and drive up prices, but will it be that bad? We talk to a beef farmer who is a member of Farmers for Climate Action. PLUS the Four Daughters beef sisters talk to Nicole Saunders, a young dairy farmer who, with her husband, went from starting out as share farmers to running an $8 million operation in just four years.

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After a covid hangover that pushed prices to a ten year low, the outlook for almonds is looking up. Paul Thompson, chief executive of Select Harvests, on the prospects for the almond industry. PLUS in our new segment on young innovators in agriculture, the sisters behind Four Daughters beef talk to Edwina Warby of Black Box Co, who is looking to transform the beef supply chain with better data.

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It’s a terrible year for the wine business, with grape growers being told to reduce their crops by at least 40 per cent as the crisis gripping the Australian premium red wine industry worsens. Tony Battaglene from Australian Grape and Wine explains how growers are coping. PLUS the sisters behind Four Daughters Beef talk to Verity Dolton, an aircraft mechanic in the Kimberley.

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