AgWatchers

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Latest Episodes

Inheriting problems and solutions.
July 23, 2024

We have a chat with Gillian Fennell aka Stationmum101. She has a range of roles in agriculture. In this podcast, we discuss succession, which seems to be a major issue in farming communities.If you are going through this process, you might get some insi

AgTechWatchers: He's a funghi
July 18, 2024

We have a chat with Guy Webb, the founder of Loam Bio. In this podcast, we learn about adding fungal spores along with your seed to increase carbon in soils. This was an interesting chat with a lot of puns.  This is a novel technology that hopes to add ca

Don't be a careless farmer, or you might end up in a crop of trouble
July 17, 2024

In this podcast we have a chat with Stevi Howdle, the executive office of Farmsafe Australia. It is farm safety week, and we have a chat about the importance of safety on farm, why there are so many accidents, and what causes the arguments.    You can fol

The Agwatchers find love.........
July 08, 2024

A bit more of a lighthearted topic this week. We chat to Mia Ryan, the founder of Howdy. Howdy is a dating app like tinder or grindr but is designed for people in regional areas.If you want tips on dating, Matt and Andrew give their advice. We also discu

Going viral in agriculture
July 04, 2024

We have a chat with award-winning Mandy Matthews, AKA rattle ya dags. Mandy works in the sheep industry in Western Australia, both on farms and livestock vessels.She was recently the winner of a services to industry award.We talk about a range of top

The final end for live sheep exports?
July 01, 2024

Overnight, the senate voted through the bill to ban live sheep exports from Australia. In May 2028, there will be no more sheep going via boat.In this podcast, we thought we would have a chat among ourselves about a range of topics: where prices will go

Senate decisions, livestock prices doubling and grain prices crashing
June 27, 2024

A quick market update from the two of us. We have a chat about the live export bill going through the senate, the livestock market, grain market and urea imports being record high.

Colin Bettles: Robots, peak body funding, chemicals and a lot more.
June 24, 2024

We have a chat with Colin Bettles, CEO of Grain Producers Australia. We chat about the funding of peak bodies (follow on from Emma Germano podcast), autonomous vehicles in ag, chemical regulation and a whole lot more.  

The onus is on you to count carbon on farm.
June 18, 2024

We have a chat with Will Onus, co-founder of Ruminati. We have a chat about baselines for emissions reporting, and what is going to be happening in this space in the coming years. You might be opposed to carbon accounting etc, but it is coming, so a worth

Happy hour with the Dry Farmer
April 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 futu