Forget tradition and focus on profitability. That's one of the key messages from livestock and genetics industry innovator, Tom Bull, who sits down with The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week for a chat. The high profile Holbrook, NSW lamb genetics provider is a regular speaker at beef industry gatherings across the country, providing an 'outsiders perspective' on approaches to genetic and business development. In their discussion today, the pair touch on the progress in marbling...
Sep 09, 2022•25 min•Ep. 69
This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Mick Crowley, Meat & Livestock Australia's general manager for research, development and adoption. In a wide ranging interview, the pair discuss the prioritisation and allocation of industry funds to R&D, and the industry service delivery company's focus on 'Fewer, bigger, bolder," R&D projects. They also drill into some of the specific newer research targets, such as the examination of delivery systems for methan...
Sep 02, 2022•29 min•Ep. 68
This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Andy Hearnden, executive chef with beef processor Kilcoy Global Foods in Queensland. Operating from Kilcoy's sparkling new commercial test kitchen located near Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Andy (pictured) has become something of a social media sensation, produced a suite of inspiring and motivating video clips encouraging young chefs and keen home cooks to push the boundaries in how they select, prepare and cook ...
Aug 26, 2022•22 min•Ep. 67
This week the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Jim Lindsay, one of the three co-founders of the Low Stress Stock Handling movement. Over the past 30 years, Jim and his collaborators Graeme Rees and the late Rod Knight have delivered hundreds of LSS courses across Australia, imprinting thousands of beef producers with better understanding about work cattle. Some grazing families have now had three generations of members through an LSS course. Few, if any programs have had ...
Aug 19, 2022•27 min•Ep. 66
While The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan was at the Brisbane Ekka he caught up with Greg Pankhurst. In a wide ranging interview, Kerry spoke to the Qld Livestock Exporters Association president about the current markets, FMD, impacts on exports, plus what that means for Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Brazil... and more.
Aug 12, 2022•23 min•Ep. 65
This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan ventured out to the Brisbane Ekka to turn up the heat on NTCA President and Tipperary Group GM, David Connolly.
Aug 05, 2022•23 min•Ep. 64
This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on our regular cattle market commentators, Chris Howie from Stockco, and Matt Dalgleish from Thomas Elder Markets. There have been some dramatic movements in the Australian store and slaughter cattle markets since the trio last came together in June. How much of it is driven by producer anxiety over the potential risk of BSE incursion? How much is due to normal mid-winter turnoff after frost, or financial management of cat...
Jul 29, 2022•25 min•Ep. 63
This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on industry identity David Larkin, head of the Kimberley Meat Co processing business near Broome. How has this year's decline in live export activity out of northern Australia impacted Australia's most remote beef processing establishment? Is the labour access issue any different than it is for processors in more heavily populated areas? David answers these, and many other questions.
Jul 22, 2022•21 min•Ep. 62
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Beef Central's 'Man on the ground' in Indonesia, Dr Ross Ainsworth. Dr Ross steps through the rapidly escalating crisis across the Indonesian archipelago, as it pushes closer to Australia in the tourism hot-spot of Bali. What more can we do to mitigate risk to the Australian beef herd and sheep flock?
Jul 15, 2022•27 min•Ep. 61
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on veteran Queensland red meat processor, Trevor Lee. Trevor is the founder of Australian Country Choice, which operates a massive vertically-integrated beef supply chain stretching from breeding and backgrounding cattle to lotfeeding, processing and meat sales into a wide range of export and domestic markets. Among other topics, the pair discuss the dramatic changes and challenges now facing the red meat processing industr...
Jul 08, 2022•30 min•Ep. 60
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Central Queensland working dog legend, Frank Finger. Fresh from his appearances on ABC TV's Working Dogs series Frank Besides running his property – west of Clermont in central Queensland – Finger has decades of experience raising and training working dogs. He started a dog training school in 1995, which his sons and daughters now run. Unlike noisy quad bikes and deafening helicopters, dogs can also keep cows and sheep c...
Jul 01, 2022•25 min•Ep. 59
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on new Federal Agriculture Minister, Murray Watt. In a wide-ranging discussion, the pair discuss jobs and the industry's underlying labour shortage, biosecurity challenges including FMD and Lumpy Skin Disease, energy prices, livestock export trade and carbon emissions. Sen Watt was a solicitor before entering the Queensland public service where he worked as chief of staff to Premier Anna Bligh from 2002 to 2007. He entered ...
Jun 24, 2022•31 min•Ep. 58
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on young NSW Wagyu beef producer, Charlie Perry. Mr Perry, who lives and works on his family-owned and operated Trent Bridge Wagyu beef property near Guyra, returned to his passion for agriculture after a successful career in business consulting, and hasn’t looked back. Since taking over management of his family enterprise in 2016, he’s overseen substantial growth in the family business, despite some of the worst years of d...
Jun 10, 2022•22 min•Ep. 57
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on StockCo's Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish, in our second markets wrap for the year. The pair explore the current drivers for young cattle, breeding cattle and slaughter cattle prices and where the markets may head in coming months
Jun 03, 2022•27 min•Ep. 56
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with northern Australian cattleman Peter Hughes, who has forged a vast grazing empire across Queensland and the Northern Territory over the past 40 years. Last month he was inducted into the Australian Wagyu Association's Hall of Fame
May 27, 2022•20 min•Ep. 55
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Barb Madden from Smithfield Cattle Co, president of the Australian Lot Feeders Association. In a wide ranging discussion the pair explore current record high feedgrain prices, cost to operate for lotfeeders, challenges and opportunities for grainfed beef in the carbon space and more.
May 20, 2022•26 min•Ep. 54
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Sally Warriner, who recently published her memoirs, having spent nearly 25 years living in the outback on cattle stations with her former husband, Ken. Sally left cattle station life when her children were in boarding school. Her sons are spread across the country and most are still involved in agribusiness. She originally trained as a nurse - a useful skill in the isolated communities she lived in - and has lost track of the number of ti...
May 13, 2022•28 min•Ep. 53
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Ian McConnell, the Australian-born president of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef. From a well-known Queensland grazing family, Ian studied animal science at UQ Gatton and then meat science at Colorado State University. He worked as a DPI livestock extension officer for almost a decade, during which time he was named Australian Rural Youth Ambassador and Cattle Council of Australia’s Beef Industry Rising Champion. In 2012 Ian joi...
May 06, 2022•24 min•Ep. 52
The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Australia's chief veterinary officer Dr Mark Schipp, discussing latest biosecurity issues of relevance to the beef industry - and in in particular, the looming threat of Lumpy Skin Disease. Now appearing on Australia's doorstep in Indonesia, LSD presents an enormous biosecurity threat to Australian livestock - and not just the beef industry, but potentially sheep and goats as well. Topics explored in today's podcast include the issue of v...
Apr 29, 2022•21 min•Ep. 51
Rural property: what’s happening, and where are values headed? Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan this week talks with Herron Todd White’s Tim Lane, discussing some of the key messages from HTW’s recent annual rural property briefings held in Brisbane and Melbourne. Will land prices and demand come under pressure from rising interest rates? Will the momentum in interest in land for carbon projects continue? Where are the likely hot-spots for rural property investment, heading deeper into 2022? Hav...
Apr 22, 2022•26 min•Ep. 50
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on RCS's Terry McCosker, aiming to better understand the increasingly complex carbon sequestion and trading market. In a wide-ranging conversation, the pair touch on a range of topics from carbon offsets, likely future price trends in the carbon market, tax implications for carbon projects and what a change of government might mean for the carbon market.
Apr 08, 2022•26 min•Ep. 49
On the eve of the 150th Royal Easter Show in Sydney next week, the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on two prominent people involved in cattle showing and competition in Royal shows in Sydney and Brisbane. Sydney show chief beef cattle steward Al Rayner and Brisbane show's chief beef cattle steward Gary Noller have seen stud show rings and led steer judging evolve over the last 40 years. Is there a future for showing stud cattle, in a world increasingly domina...
Apr 01, 2022•28 min•Ep. 48
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Wagyu industry pioneer, David Blackmore, who has been a key player in Wagyu's extraordinary trajectory in Australia since the mid-1990s. In a wide-ranging conversation, the pair touch on topics including how Wagyu got a foothold in the Australian beef industry, the quest for quality over quantity, the extraordinary prices high-end restaurant customers around the world are prepared to pay for elite Wagyu, and the risk of ...
Mar 25, 2022•26 min•Ep. 47
The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on beef processing plant manager Wasa Mudannayake. Sri Lankan born Wasa has experienced an extraordinary career path, starting in the casual labour queue at Beenleigh, before rising through the ranks to become general manager at Teys Lakes Creek - one of the largest meat plants in Australia. In a wide-ranging conversation, the pair touch on topics including the challenges surrounding attracting labour to the processing indu...
Mar 18, 2022•22 min•Ep. 46
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on grazing industry identity Jock Whittle, the head of asset performance for MIRA Agriculture for the Macquarie Group, who spent 12 years as chief executive officer of Paraway Pastoral Co. In a wide ranging interview, the pair touch on topics including the grazing industry (and Paraway's) approach to sustainability, carbon farming, and the critical need to focus on farm safety
Mar 11, 2022•20 min•Ep. 45
Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on veteran red meat industry leader David Crombie. After forging his career as a director of Gunn Rural Management (GRM) and live exporter Austrex, Mr Crombie later became the chairman of the steering committee that moulded the formation of the Meat Standards Australia tenderness guarantee scheme, sat as chairman of Meat & Livestock Australia for six years, and served terms as president of the National Farmers Federation. In all capacities, he ...
Feb 24, 2022•25 min•Ep. 44
In today's episode, host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Beef Central's regular live export market commentator and columnist, Dr Ross Ainsworth. Ross has spent a lifetime working in the Australian live cattle export industry, including lengthy periods living and working in-market. In this episode he explores prospects for live export cattle prices for 2022, how major markets like Indonesia and Vietnam are performing, and competition from other protein suppliers in South America and India....
Feb 18, 2022•23 min•Ep. 43
Beef Central's ever popular podcast series, The Weekly Grill, has returned from its summer recess with today's second episode of a new series. Host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on StockCo's Chris Howie and Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish, in our first markets wrap for the year. The pair explore the current drivers for young cattle, breeding cattle and slaughter cattle prices and where the markets may head in coming months. Sponsoring our Weekly Grill podcast series again in 20...
Feb 10, 2022•28 min•Ep. 42
Beef Central's ever popular podcast series, The Weekly Grill, returns from summer recess this week with the first episode of a new series. Kicking off this year's program, host Kerry Lonergan this week turns up the heat on Australian Meat Industry Council chief executive, Patrick Hutchinson. In a wide ranging interview, the pair explore the challenges ahead for red meat processors and retailers, including labour issues, livestock supply, consumer meat buying habits during COVID, and key export m...
Feb 04, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Marking National Agriculture Day today, this week's episode of The Weekly Grill podcast series sees host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud. In a wide ranging interview, the pair explore the road to zero net emissions for Australian farmers and graziers, description of plant based proteins purporting to be ‘meat’, and industry representation. Today's episode brings to a close our 2021 Weekly Grill podcast series, brought to listeners with the suppo...
Nov 19, 2021•31 min•Ep. 40
