What's Your Beef

What's Your Beef

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What's Your Beef episodes

  • Career curiosity driving change and innovation

    A lot has to be said for curiosity. It drives change and innovation, and as for Lisa Sharp- her whole career. Lisa is the CEO of the Hereford Society and comes from a fascinating marketing background that’s seen her digging around cereal crop fields for Uncle Toby’s and pondering the way we think about red meat marketing for Meat and Livestock Australia. She’s an energetic force to be reckoned with and as we find out in this episode, a career in food industries was the furthest thing from her mind.

    39 min
  • Challenging Social Conventions

    Dr Beth Woods has had one of those extraordinary careers that not only has crossed industries and international borders, but social conventions. Not only was she the first female extension officer in Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, she was the first female Rhode scholar to be announced, Queensland’s first female Director General of the Department of Agriculture and the first female Professor at University of Queensland’s Gatton campus. Now, Dr Woods is a self- employed agricultural consultant, working on everything from foreign food security to chairing the policy council for the Cattle Council of Australia and mentoring a number of up and coming producers in the Australian cattle industry.

    49 min
  • Welcome to Beef 2024

    To kick off Season 2 of ‘What’s Your Beef’, we chat to none other than Beef Australia’s CEO, Simon Irwin.

    Born and raised in Warwick, Simon started his working life as a stock and station agent before moving into the media sector where he had a 30-odd year career. He’s always maintained an interest in, and connections to, the rural community and now proudly wearing his Beef Australia hat, chats to us about how the iconic event is shaping up for 2024 and gives us a little insight into some new and exciting plans.

    28 min
  • Stud cattle showcase at Beef21
    The stud cattle are a major drawcard to Beef Australia. Dominating the centre ring for much of the week, attendees are treated to a smorgasbord of breeds, colours, and sizes.
    But for a lot of stud breeders, Beef Australia is more than a marketing strategy, it's a social event. The exhibitors start bumping in well before the gates officially open and their campsite is abuzz with laughter, gossip and good old fashioned breed competitiveness, kicking off with an interbreed tug of war. Listen here to hear what breed caught the attention of those outside of the Centre Ring and why. Podcast host Jayne Cuddihy also caught up with some of the seasoned Beef exhibitors and learned what goes into the preparation of their prize specimens.
    21 min
  • Tracking the road less travelled
    One of the most exciting aspects of being in the beef industry is how diverse the range of vocations are.
    It doesn't matter where you're from, what background you've had, what you studied after school, there's something for everyone.
    Jack Travers was one of the finalists in the Pitch in the Paddock event at Beef21 with his TruckTracker app. Solving supply chain issues in the beef industry was absolutely not what Jack thought he would be spending his time on, but here's his story.
    15 min
  • Beef Australia Suncorp Schools Program
    Almost 4000 school students participated in the Beef21 Schools Program and were inundated with opportunities to learn where their food and fibre comes from.
    Generously supported by Suncorp Bank, students were captivated by the program which included everything from participating in a live cattle auction, an interactive introduction to agricultural supply system and raising the profile of the broad range of agricultural careers, and of course, icecream!
    15 min
  • The answer is genetics
    Dr Geoffry Fordyce is one of Australia's leading authorities on genetics and fertility, following a long career first as a vet and then with Queensland's Agriculture Department and most recently as a senior research fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation and an Adjunct Associate professor at James Cook University.
    He was at Beef21 principally to talk about his latest paper; a deep dive into the Australian cattle herd: a new perspective on structure, performance and production. He and his team had realised there was a great discrepancy in what the reported size of the northern beef herd was and what is actually on the ground. What followed is ground-breaking research into the number of calf mortalities in our beef systems and how businesses can take back lost revenue by improving their genetics.
    24 min
  • Valuing Relationships
    Peta Ward is Westpac's Queensland Regional General Manager or Agribusiness for Westpac and says that building maintaining relationships is a major part of their success with long term clients. Be it constructive meetings- a day in the paddock helping with a muster or even fishing.
    Peta's spent a lifetime in rural Queensland and has bought a wealth of knowledge and understanding to the table. Listen here as she tells Jayne Cuddihy what she sees as the major issues for modern regional banking and what this golden era of interest rates means for property purchases.
    13 min
  • Succeeding in Succession
    Russell Lethbridge and his family own and manage a number of North and Central Queensland properties, including Werrington Station near Einasleigh. He's been a driving force behind better management of northern breeding herds and is one of the producer representatives of MLA.Russell and his family have also taken an empowering approach to succession planning, which has seen their business not only expand, but prosper. Listen here as he tells his story to Jayne Cuddihy, including some suprising confessions about what he likes to create in the kitchen!
    29 min
  • Call to arms
    Can you imagine being the person responsible for first selling Australian meat to Korea? Or having the brainwave that Americans should have Australian meat in their hamburgers?
    Richard Rains can.
    He's been a champion of the Australian red meat industry for his entire career with boundless energy and enviable lightbulb moments. After a cadetship with Dalgety Australia he then joined meat exporting company Sanger Australia in 1976 and by 2000 he owned a majority stake in the business.
    He is also keen to see more young people stand up for leadership roles in the beef industry to drive change in the way the industry communicates outside their peer groups. As he tells What's Your Beef? host Jayne Cuddihy, he believes there are some amazing emerging leaders.
    14 min

About What's Your Beef

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“What’s Your Beef” is a fortnightly Podcast produced by Beef Australia. We look forward to taking you behind the scenes of this iconic Australian event in the lead up to Beef 2021. Listeners…

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