Welcome to episode six of the Better Business series and our second with Phil Cloros from Mongrel Boots . In the first part of our chat, we explored Phil's background and his perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the family business, especially in the context of generational differences and workforce challenges. In this second part, we delve deeper into how Phil manages communication within the family business, the role of the next generation, and the importance of modernising t...
Sep 21, 2023•23 min•Season 5Ep. 52
In this episode, Oli chats with Olivia (Liv) Thompson, a Director at LAWD . Liv's early years were spent on Northern Territory cattle stations, and she recently came full circle by selling one of those stations as a real estate agent. Although Liv's career began in real estate, she took a detour to Texas, USA, working as a cutting horse trainer. Throughout this episode, Liv openly discusses her rookie mistakes, her love for the Northern Territory community, the cultural insights she gained from ...
Sep 19, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 53
We're half way through the Better Business Series! Here is episode five with Phil Cloris from Mongrel Boots as our guest. In this episode, we dive into Phil's journey with Mongrel Boots, a fifth-generation Australian shoe business founded in 1930. We explore how Phil, alongside his family members, has worked to maintain the family values and ethos while also bringing in non-family employees on their journey. Phil shares insights into navigating generational shifts and the importance of balancing...
Sep 14, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 51
This week Oli had two guests join him on the Humans of Agriculture Podcast! Lachie Knight and Ned Olsson from Clipex met up with Oli during the 2023 AgQuip Field Days. Clipex is a family business which started in manufacturing a solution for fencing and then expanded into other livestock handling equipment. They now have businesses across the globe in the likes of Ireland and Uruguay. Ned's family established Clipex and Lachie has since joined the team. The trio touch on the following: Lachie's ...
Sep 12, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 50
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Better Business series and our second with Grace Brennan, Founder and CEO of Buy From The Bush . Your host, Oli Le Lievre and Grace discuss various aspects of Grace's journey in building and growing her impactful business. Grace shares insights about the role of vulnerability, utilising outsourcing, the importance of admitting what you don't know, and asking questions. She also highlights the significance of building a team of individuals with shared instincts and ski...
Sep 07, 2023•25 min•Season 5Ep. 48
In a past life, Anthony Lee has scrubbed dishes, flipped burgers, varnished boats, worked on ski fields and spent time as a postman... Now, Anthony is the CEO and Director at family business, Australian Country Choice (ACC), a beef, cattle and food processing company. Anthony first came onto Oli’s radar following his speech at the EKKA Brekkie in 2022, his passion about education and promoting opportunities to the next generation was equally inspiring and motivating. Since that day, Oli wanted t...
Sep 05, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 49
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Better Business series and our first with powerhouse, Grace Brennan, Founder and CEO of Buy From The Bush . Your host, Oli Le Lievre, and Grace cover everything from her upbringing in Sydney, to falling in love and moving out to 'the bush', all the way to establishing Buy From The Bush . And if you are familiar with Buy From The Bush , you would know just how quickly it escalated in Australia. For Grace, her connection to the bush started when she travelled out to her...
Aug 31, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 47
In this episode of the Humans of Agriculture podcast, Oli is joined by Jordy Kitschke, founder of Flux Robotics and former evokeAG. Future Young Leader (2019). We follow Jordy's journey from growing up on a farm in South Australia, to founding not one, but two AgTech businesses. For Jordy, it started on the family cropping farm where he had a list of problems he wanted to fix that was a mile long... He was listening to podcasts on the tractor, learning about various technology and software that ...
Aug 29, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 46
Welcome to Episode 2 of the Better Business series! In this episode, we return with Mitch from Bullseye Ag . If you missed the first episode, make sure you go back and give it a listen. This time, we continue to learn from Mitch and his experience in building a business, which sometimes meant removing himself from the business, "So that if this fell apart, the whole business wasn't going to fall apart." Mitch shares the lessons he's learned and things he would perhaps do differently if he had hi...
Aug 24, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 45
Rebecca (or Beck) Underwood was on our "Women in Agriculture" panel back in March, 2023. Your host, Oli Le Lievre found the conversations with Beck really insightful, so he decided to sit down with her again to chat about how she has progressed her career, how she has grown in confidence and her ideas around inclusivity in agriculture. A highly regarded agribusiness professional with over 20 years’ experience in Australian agribusiness, Beck is currently the National Sustainability Field Manager...
Aug 22, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 42
Welcome to Episode 1 of the Better Business series! In this episode, Oli dives into the journey of Mitch Highett, the Managing Director and Founder of Bullseye Ag . Mitch's story is a mix of farm life around the world and working in major ag companies. Bullseye Ag offers farm management and consultancy services. But it's not just about that – it's a story of growing the team and taking them on a journey, fostering autonomy, and staying transparent. "And this is why I've got gray hairs coming up ...
Aug 17, 2023•23 min•Season 5Ep. 44
If Malkah wasn’t a Relationship Credit Analyst, she would use her love of problem solving be an entrepreneur. Oli and Malkah chat about her unique upbringing, moving throughout South America, Europe and Australia which is absolutely fascinating. Her Mum (also her hero) actually started a career as a professional tennis player before going back to her roots in agriculture. Malkah was always exposed to agriculture, but she didn't necessarily always know that it was the career path she wanted to pu...
Aug 15, 2023•38 min•Season 5Ep. 43
Join host Oli Le Lievre as he chats with Samantha (Sam) Wan, an Australian wool broker based in Melbourne. There's something about wool that gets people so energised and Sam is no exception. This episode was recorded from the Hamilton Sheepvention , so we hope you're forgiving of some faint background noise! While recording, Oli was huddled around a heater while Sam was nice and warm in her Elders water-proof woollen jacket!! Episode Highlights: Sam's journey from a non-agricultural background a...
Aug 10, 2023•14 min•Season 5Ep. 42
This week your host, Oli Le Lievre travelled out to the Hamilton Sheepvention to discuss 'The Importance of Evolving within Agriculture' with Mark Gubbins, ' Coolana ' Managing Director and Brendan Rinaldi, Elders Vic/Riverina GM. The Elders marquee was full to the brim, so a huge shout out to the 100 or so people in the crowd! We finish this episode with questions from those that attended. When we talk about 'evolving within agriculture', certain words like succession come to mind. Mark farms n...
Aug 08, 2023•44 min•Season 5Ep. 40
Oral lice treatment?! No matter what wool length?! We’re listening… Traditionally, sheep are treated for lice through a backline at the time of shearing. With a new oral treatment product on the market, your host Oli Le Lievre got curious and asked some questions of Dr Jane Morrison: What does it take to get a new product to market? How do farmers benefit from using the new oral lice treatment? How does the oral product work and how long is it effective for? How long are the withholding periods ...
Aug 03, 2023•16 min•Season 5Ep. 39
In this episode of the Humans of Agriculture podcast, host Oli Le Lievre is joined by co-host Milly Nolan for the first time! Milly is mates with our guest and knew he would make a ripper episode, so we teed it up while we were all in Armidale together. Introducing Jack Laurie, 5th generation cattle farmer and founder of Breeder Genetics. With a profound love and passion for cattle, breeding, data and genetics, Jack's whole life has been dedicated to the sector. At the ripe age of 20, Jack estab...
Aug 01, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 38
Tom (T-Truck) and Mick (Corkscrew) are back on with their fourth? fifth? episode of the Monthly Markets. They’re joined by special guest Ciaran O'Gorman from StockCo . While having a laugh and some fun, they explore current market conditions, the impact of seasonal and climatic factors on livestock prices, and the opportunities available to producers and traders. The discussion also delves into finance rates, the outlook on interest rates, and the potential for future growth in other markets....
Jul 27, 2023•22 min•Season 5Ep. 37
Before you listen to this ep, go back and listen to "The Agri Lawyer taking on Mount Everest with Trent Thorne" if you haven't already! Trent Thorne has returned from his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Host, Oli Le Lievre sits down with him to reflect on his incredible journey and the raw decision to turn-back, only ~8hr from the top. Below is an exert from Trent after he decided to listen to his body: "But it still immediately stung for the obvious reasons… Because I knew that my...
Jul 25, 2023•44 min•Season 5Ep. 36
Welcome back to the In The Know On the Go Podcast. This week, host Oli Le Lievre sits down with Col Medway, Senior Director at LAWD , to get across the latest trends and happening in the Aussie Rural Real Estate market. We cover: Current trends is rural real estate Changing dynamics of Aussie ag and what that means for farmers and investors alike The role of livestock farming and mixed farming in carbon sequestration efforts Market outlook for the remaining 6 months of 2023...
Jul 20, 2023•19 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Julia "Chief Hope Officer" Jones is an absolute straight-shooter. Your host, Oli Le Lievre, was fortunate enough to meet Julia earlier in 2023. They have become friends and he fondly calls her JJ. From across the ditch, JJ has been, "married to agriculture for 20years". She is a wealth of experience in finance, markets, sustainability and agriculture. In this episode JJ gives a raw account of how her self-assured, authentic self wasn't always so... And at times it worked against her. We dive int...
Jul 18, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 35
This ‘Under the Hood’ series is planned to take you behind the scenes to understand more about what it’s like to build a brand and support livelihoods on Purpose. Throughout it I hope you can get more of an understanding as we talk through some of the different aspects of what we do, why we’re making the decisions we do… and in a really honest way, open the doors to feedback from you about what are the good ideas, the sh*t ones as well as showing the opportunities for you either individually or ...
Jul 16, 2023•13 min•Season 5Ep. 33
In the fourth and final episode of Carbon Shortcuts: An introduction to all things Carbon in Aussie Agriculture , hosts Oli Le Lievre and Sam Noon pick Professor Richard Eckard’s brain one last time about all things carbon in agriculture. It has been a learning journey for all the challenges and opportunities in addressing carbon emissions within agriculture. The carbon series may be concluding, however, it serves as a starting point for ongoing conversations and deeper exploration of carbon-rel...
Jul 14, 2023•22 min•Season 5Ep. 32
What would you do if you want a bus? Well, in 25 words or less, that is something our next guest had to answer. And to be honest, as he starts to talk about and open up in this chat, it really did change his life. I first came across Tim Gentle when I was studying down at Marcus Oldham. He turned up with these virtual reality headsets, what he was trying to do was really take people on farm from wherever they were, it was pretty new technology, and it was bloody mind blowing what he'd done. Over...
Jul 11, 2023•47 min•Season 5Ep. 31
Welcome to episode 3 of “Carbon Shortcuts: An introduction to all things Carbon in Aussie Agriculture”, where hosts Oli Le Lievre and Sam Noon uncover more key learnings shared by Professor Richard Eckard, the expert in carbon. The discussion revolves around the opportunities for farmers on their land and sheds light on unexplored areas of the agricultural supply chain. They also answer audience questions and discuss the industry's progress in reducing its carbon footprint. Agricultural supply c...
Jul 07, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 30
It's not everyday that we have someone new to the team and it's definitely not everyday where you get to sit down with them for a podcast episode and find out more about who they are, what drives them and what impact they want to make on agriculture. Fortunately for us, in her second week in the job after travelling to Sydney to an Ag Careers Expo Milly Nolan and host Oli Le Lievre got to sit down to chat about the first couple of weeks. We cover: Milly's early memories of agriculture the decisi...
Jul 04, 2023•54 min•Season 5Ep. 29
In this episode of, Carbon Shortcuts: An introduction to all things Carbon in Aussie Agriculture, hosts Oli Le Lievre and Sam Noon are joined by Professor Richard Eckard from the University of Melbourne. The discussion revolves around the different types of carbon markets, the distinction between offsetting and insetting, and the emergence of biodiversity credits. The difference between the Voluntary and Compliance Markets The different Participants and Trades in each market The revenue potentia...
Jun 30, 2023•26 min•Season 5Ep. 28
In this episode, Oli Le Lievre and Samantha Noon embark on a journey to explore the carbon space in Australian agriculture. They are joined by Professor Richard Eckard, a renowned expert in climate and agriculture, to shed light on key concepts like carbon neutrality and net zero. The conversation covers Australia's emission reduction goals, the choice of baseline years, and the differences between net zero and carbon neutral. Across this series we aim to demystify the carbon space and shed ligh...
Jun 29, 2023•27 min•Season 5Ep. 27
In this episode of the Humans of Agriculture podcast, host Oli Le Lievre sits down with guest Leila McDougall. Leila shares her unique journey from a small town called Walcha in New England to her involvement in various creative pursuits, including being Miss Australia, acting, producing, and writing. Leila reflects on her unconventional resume, attributing it to her love for creativity and the interconnectedness of different skills. As the discussion delves into agriculture, Leila explains how ...
Jun 27, 2023•40 min•Season 5Ep. 26
Welcome back to part 2 of the Clancy Mackay story. If you missed Part one, you better go back and listen to our previous episode! In Part 1 of this chat, Oli Le Lievre and Clancy Mackay covered Clancy's childhood in the NT, moving to Goondiwindi and becoming a bit of a "wildcat", rodeoing in the USA, flying mustering helicopters and the impact of his father's death. Just some of the things Oli and Clancy's chat about in Part 2: Using challenges as stepping stones to overcome obstacles in his lif...
Jun 20, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 25
It's one of the most powerful conversations we've had to date. Clancy Mackay... a bush kid who grew up in the scrub of the Northern Territory. A teenager that 'played up a bit', however it's been his love of the land, of animals and of his family that have persevered. In Part one of this chat, Host Oli Le Lievre sits down with Clancy Mackay a current student at Marcus Oldham. At the ripe old age of 27, Clancy Mackay has decades of wisdom on top of his shoulders and real life lessons that have le...
Jun 13, 2023•59 min•Season 5Ep. 24
