The Week in Beef

The Week in Beef

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The Week in Beef episodes

  • Full interview with Tim Lee: Soldier’s lifesaving grazing journey

    Gunnedah farmer and Australian army veteran Tim Lee showed boundless depths of courage when he stepped up to the microphone and shared a deeply personal story in front of 250 people at the Young Beef Producers Forum in Roma last week.

    He then caught up with Beef Central's James Nason to share his story for the Week in Beef podcast.

    14 min
  • Soldier’s lifesaving grazing journey | AA Co’s profit lifts | Another major feedlot sale

    Another large-scale Australian feedlot has hit the market this week, making it the fifth of its kind to go up for sale recent months.

    Smithfield Cattle Company today announced it was testing the market with its feedlot at Proston in the South-Burnett region of Queensland.

    Smithfield’s announcement follows a similar move from Mort & Co, which has put the Pinegrove and Yarranbrook feedlots on the market, Elders with its Killara feedlot on the Liverpool Plains and Rangers Valley, which recently sold to Stanbroke. Plus:

    • Australian Agricultural Company managing director David Harris talks half yearly profits, feedlot expansion and the future of the Livingstone abattoir in Darwin.
    • Tim Lee talks about how his adoption of regenerative agriculture has helped him recover from the battlefields of Afghanastan and Iraq.
    • The number of the week talks National Ag Day, record beef production and national environmental laws.

      • Available every Thursday afternoon on the Beef Central website, or via YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, I Heart Radio, Podbean and other podcast platforms. Search for: The week in beef and click subscribe.

      29 min
    • Industry purple patch | Conference season | Why beef and beer match

      The Beef Central team has hit the road this week for some of the beef industry’s premiere get togethers.

      Cattle Australia’s Cattle Connect is embedding itself as the national beef industry get together and Roma Young Beef Producers’ Forum continues its popularity in its 21st year. Plus:

      • Sports dietician Peta Carige tells us how science is backing a push to have beef in a healthy diet
      • Young Beef Producers chair Tom Copley gives his thoughts on the forum
      • The number of the week talks mustering contracting, giving blood and why beef and beer go together

        • Available every Thursday afternoon on the Beef Central website, or via YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, I Heart Radio, Podbean and other podcast platforms. Search for: The week in beef and click subscribe.

        29 min
      • Why feedlots are expanding | Northern abattoir sold | Soil carbon builds

        Feedlot capacity is continuing to surge in Australia, with pen space to support hundreds-of-thousands of cattle either recently come online or currently under construction.

        Beef Central has been on the phones trying to find who is behind the current expansions and this episode the Week in Beef will explore some of the learnings from the exercise.

        Also on the show:

        • Beef Central publisher Jon Condon unpacks the sale of Kimberly Meat Company and prospects of more processing in the north.
        • Riverina producer Michael Gooden explains how he plans to build carbon in his soil.
        • The number of the week looks at the Melbourne Cup, cattle prices and a surge in value of foetal blood.

          • Available every Thursday afternoon on the Beef Central website, or via YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, I Heart Radio, Podbean and other podcast platforms. Search for: The week in beef and click subscribe.

           

          24 min
        • Feedlots on the market | Cattle head south | Ag degrees go top of the class

          More feedlot news has emerged this week, with one of Australia’s largest lotfeeders announcing plans to sell two of its feedlots.

          Mort & Co has officially listed Yarranbrook and Pinegrove feedlots, along with the license for its proposed Gogango feedlot in Central Queensland. Beef Central publisher Jon Condon gives an insight into how that listing emerged.

          Also, on the Week in Beef:

          • Meat & Livestock Australia Wagga Wagga market reporter Leann Dax gives an insight into the season in the south states, with cattle heading back to the area after a drought-induced sell-off earlier this year.
          • A new survey of 158,000 tertiary education students has found that students studying agriculture degrees were the most satisfied with their degrees.
          • The number of the week looks at bull selling season, Australian Beef Sustainability Framework, controversy on the dietary guidelines and European Deforestation.

            • Available every Thursday afternoon on the Beef Central website, or via YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, I Heart Radio, Podbean and other podcast platforms. Search for: The week in beef and click subscribe.

            26 min
          • Giant feedlot sale | Healthy consumers go for beef | The rise of King River

            The Week in Beef team this week look into Australia’s largest ever feedlot transaction, the legacy of the sellers and how it fits in with the buyers.

            Japanese-owned Rangers Valley was purchased by Stanbroke last week for what is believed to be $400m. The property has a feedlot, beef brands and extensive farming and grazing country. Plus:

            • Meat & Livestock Australia managing director Michael Crowley explains how consumer survey respondents are saying they want to eat more beef.
            • Josh Rich from Central Queensland-based Wagyu supply King River talks about his family’s journey towards branded beef success
            • The number of the week talks rain in Victoria, country speed limits and fuel security.

              • Available every Thursday afternoon on the Beef Central website, or via YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, I Heart Radio, Podbean and other podcast platforms. Search for: The week in beef and click subscribe.

              30 min
            • Cattle market changing, $250k feedlot manager, why not beef for Christmas?

              THE dynamics of Australia’s cattle market have shifted quickly in recent weeks, from big shifts of cattle into southern feedlots, a bit of rain in Queensland and more permits issued for live export ships.

              In this episode of the Week in Beef, the Beef Central team give a quick wrap up of markets across the country. Plus:

              • Why one feedlot operator has offered $250,000 for an operations manager. Rimfire Resources Mick Hay explains why the job is in hot demand
              • Darling Downs beef battle event shows the possibilities of putting beef on share plates. Meat & Livestock Australia's Sam Burke and Dnat Catering's Rob Smithson talk carcase utilisation.
              • Number of the week looks at World Iron Awareness week, International Rural Women's Day, state of the industry and Beyond Meat shares tanking.

                • The Week in Beef is sponsored by Rabobank.

                30 min
              • Beef shortage, disappearing lucaena, net zero drives 5m ha of new trees

                A Lack of detail being provided by the Federal agriculture department on the impact of the Government’s net zero emissions by 2050 target was the source of frustration in this week’s Senate Estimates hearings.

                Nationals’ senator Matt Canavan led the charge, with a series of questions about how much land was going to be taken up by tree plantings.

                Read this week’s article for more information: https://www.beefcentral.com/carbon/federal-ag-dept-vague-on-how-much-land-is-needed-for-reforestation/

                In the is Episode of the Week in Beef:

                • Jon Condon gives an insight in the Anuga food trade show, which is one of the biggest in the world and had a clear message for the Australian beef industry
                  • James Nason talks about some promising varieties of lucaena that have disappeared in recent years
                  • The number of the week looks at a push towards plant-based diets, the Advancing Beef Leaders program and the record low American herd.
                    • 28 min
                  • Innisfail abattoir bought, US beef to Australia, Zanda McDonald tribute

                    Following a trip through Western Queensland watching the dozens of trucks transporting cattle through the area, the Week in Beef gives an insight into the newest display at the Longreach Stockman’s Hall of Fame.

                    Alongside the induction of Beef Central’s Jon Condon and ABC Landline’s Peter Lewis into the Rural Press Club Hall of Fame, a display was unveiled for late industry leader Zanda McDonald who tragically passed away in 2013.

                    The Week in Beef plays some of the audio you can hear at Zanda McDonald’s display. Plus:

                    • Jon Condon talks about the import of United States beef into Australia for the first time in 22 years.
                    • North Qld butcher Doug Cross tells us about his plans with Innisfail abattoir, which has been out of action for almost 20 years.
                    • The number of the week looks weather forecasts, drunk cows and processing capacity in Qld.

                      • The Week in Beef is sponsored by Rabobank.

                      28 min
                    • Live ex prices up, feedgrain prices down, frustration as compliance builds

                      The slow but relentless build of paperwork Australian cattle producers are required to do has been creating plenty of frustration, with Australia allowing the import of beef from the United States and Europe trying to implement a ban on goods linked to deforestation.

                      Central Queensland producers, lotfeeder and processor Josie Angus has been raising concerns about the amount of compliance the industry is putting on itself – arguing that that it should be pushing back on some regulations.

                      Plus:

                      • Beef Central publisher James Nason explains the increasing prices of live export cattle
                      • Grain Central editor Liz Wells gives insight into the upcoming harvest and the prospect of cheap grain ending up in feedlots
                      • And, the number of the week looks at kill numbers, climate targets, telecommunications commitments and the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame.
                        • 29 min

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