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#176 Chilli, competition and confidence
We talk about our experience with Perth's spiciest pizza, the origin of the F word, competition with the Bunge/Viterra merger, confidence in livestock markets and how wheat markets are boring and exci
#175 In defence of meat
We have a chat with Andrea Bertaglio, an environmental journalist from Europe, who has recently written a book defending the meat industry from misinformation relating to animal welfare, veganism and
#174 We welcome our robot overlords
We have a chat with Tim Neale, founder of DataFarming. Tim is a straight talker when it comes to ag and ag tech and was a guest on episode #78 (click here to listen).In this podcast, we chat about ar
#173 Watt’s up? A chat with the ag minister.
After a year in the ag portfolio, Murray Watt finally comes onto the Agwatchers podcast for a chat.Our discussions include live export, trade with China, farm labour, biosecurity (and levies), foot
#172 The silence of the lambs
In this podcast, we chat with Clarice An van den Berg, a farmer from Limpopo in South Africa.This podcast is another in our series with the Global Sheep Forum (link here), and we discuss a range of
#171 Biosecurity budget - a levy or a tax on farming?
The budget announcement this week included increased funding for biosecurity, which was welcomed by most in agriculture. The concern was that some of this extra funding would come from a 10% increase
#170 Two bob’s worth
We chatted with Australia's current longest-running federal minister Bob Katter, from far north Queensland.We hear Bob's views on ethanol, farm labour, land clearing laws and much more.
#169 Guns, germs and succession (from Australia).
We have a chat with Trevor Whittington, CEO of WA Farmers. We chat about government intervention, sheep live exports (and EID tags), the succession of WA from Australia, gun reform, trade with China a
#168 Grain and Graze - Market Update
No guests today, just us having a chat about markets. A few tangents along the way, but we discuss cattle prices, grain markets and anonymous fertilizer trolls.
#167 Educating the next generation about agriculture
"City folk don't understand anything about agriculture". This is a comment we hear a lot, and one of the best ways to get over the rural-metro divide is to educate the next generation.We speak with