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Latest Episodes

Market Morsel - A conversation about commodities.
February 20, 2024

Just the two of us.Matt and Andrew have a conversation about livestock, grain and fertilizer pricing. Along with a few other tangents.

Keeping it rural
February 15, 2024

We have a chat with Dimity Smith, of Gro Events and Gro Rural.As always we cover a huge range of topics; should events be rural or in cities, finding rural talent for contracts, running an EP3 commo

Agriculture for all
February 08, 2024

We have a chat with Madeleine Stuchbery, a journalist with the Weekly Times. We chat about our recent article about the inclusion of women on agricultural boards.In this chat we delve into diversity

The Queen of Sheepa
February 05, 2024

On this podcast, we have Jo Hall, CEO of Wool Producers Australia (WPA). Jo represents the interests of wool growers across the country.She discusses why WPA have removed support for the governments

Ute ban, MV Bahijah and the NFF relationship with government.
February 01, 2024

We have David Jochinke, the current president of the NFF and the immediate previous VFF president onto the podcast for a chat after 3 months in the NFF president role. In this podcast, we discuss vari

This is a conversation starter
January 30, 2024

Mental wellness is a huge issue in regional areas, and one that we need to more open about and remove the stigma.We have a chat with Jason Banks, the CO-Ceo of TIACS aka This is a conversation starte

Skyes the limit in agtech.
January 28, 2024

We have a chat with Skye Raward, co-founder of Farmers2Founders, a program to assist Australian food producers in collaborating with tech developers.In this discussion, we cover topics from getting

The ag minister from the shadows.
January 24, 2024

We had a chat with shadow agricultural minister David Littleproud about a wide variety of topics and how he thinks the current government is performing.

Biosecurity - a new levy or a tax?
January 21, 2024

We have a chat with Colin Bettles, CEO of Grain Producers Australia. Last week, a huge section of agricultural representatives sent a letter to the government advocating for the removal of the new bio

You're so Wyn*, you probably think this auctions about you
January 18, 2024

We have a chat with Wyn Snyman, the new CEO of Auctionsplus. We chat about the COVID impact on online livestock auctions, new competitors in the space, the Auctionsplus foray into media and a whole lo