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Latest Episodes

#176 Chilli, competition and confidence
June 14, 2023

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
May 31, 2023

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
May 25, 2023

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.
May 18, 2023

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
May 15, 2023

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?
May 12, 2023

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
May 10, 2023

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).
May 05, 2023

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
April 27, 2023

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
April 26, 2023

"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