Episodes

  • The rise of the machines
    May 9 2024

    We have a chat with an old colleague of AgWatchers, Michael De Kleuver. Michael has just set up the world's nearly completely autonomous wool-handling warehouse.

    A range of topics are covered - Matt losing, getting labour, Trump winning, the wool market being a frog and the concerns about the sheep industry.

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    49 mins
  • Trump, wheat rally and virus in the meat
    May 3 2024

    Just the two of this week, as we haven't had the time to get a guest on. A quick market update covering the rally in the wheat market, bird flu in the US cattle, our predictions for Trump and a bit more.

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    20 mins
  • Happy hour with the Dry Farmer
    Apr 26 2024

    We have another chat with Trevor Whittington, CEO of WA Farmers and author of the Dry Farmer (click here). As always on our chat with Trevor, we discuss a range of topics.

    Dry weather in WA, the future of the sheep industry, the announcement of state funding in WA to help dry farmers and a lot more.

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    50 mins
  • Praise to the meat.
    Apr 12 2024

    We record a podcast with animal scientist Robert Hewitt; Robert goes by the Twitter handle @meat_evangalist and has a very data and objective approach to his online debates.

    In this podcast, we talk about how the pig industry has advanced production, lessons that cattle/sheep could learn from pork, how animal activists have some value and the retailing of pork.

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    55 mins
  • What's happening in the ag markets?
    Apr 10 2024

    We do a quick market summary of what is happening across grains and livestock.

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    22 mins
  • Exposing the future of ag
    Apr 5 2024

    We have Natalie Green, event organiser of the future ag expo, a new expo and conference held at the Melbourne showgrounds in April, which will display new ag technology and speakers (including us)

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    55 mins
  • Causing a Hassell
    Mar 26 2024

    We are joined by John Hassell, President of WA Farmers and Vice President of the National Farmers Federation. John is from Pingelly, Western Australia.

    In this chat, we discuss everything from climate change, live export, increasing efficiency in farm representation, protests in Europe, animal activism and a whole lot more.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Pip off the old block
    Mar 22 2024

    This week, we welcome Pip Courtney, the host of ABC Landline, onto the podcast. In this podcast, we talk about a range of topics from her favourite story, is Landline is representative of farming, the impact of technology on media and a whole lot more.

    If you enjoy the podcast leave a review on apple, and share with your friends and family.

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    1 hr and 2 mins