Commodity conversations explores all the moves in Australian agricultural markets and the stories behind what's driving them.
Episodes
Jul 12, 2019
Jul 12, 2019
10 min
A summary of the agricultural markets in Australia. This week covering grain, cattle and sheep.
Jul 10, 2019
Jul 10, 2019
3 min
We talk to Peter Walker about his time volunteering in a grain growing region in Kenya. How does agriculture in the first world compare with the developing world?
Jul 5, 2019
Jul 5, 2019
14 min
A summary of the agricultural markets in Australia. This week we cover grain, wool & livestock
Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019
11 min
A summary of the ag markets. Due to a broken arm Andrew is unable to make it onto this weeks update.
Jun 21, 2019
Jun 21, 2019
13 min
A summary of the agricultural markets in Australia. This week we're talking US female slaughter ratios, the choice between mutton and lamb, ABARES grain forecasts and wool supply.
Jun 13, 2019
Jun 13, 2019
9 min
A summary of the agricultural markets in Australia. This week we're talking US cattle prices, revised low in the sheep flock, cycles in the 21MPG price and the WASDE report.
Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019
37 min
In this conversation we are joined by Mike Stephens of Meridian Agriculture. Robert Herrmann chats to Mike about the importance of having a solid farm succession plan.
Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019
8 min
A summary of the agricultural markets in Australia. This week we cover another month of high female cattle slaughter, sheep offtake and the flock size and low wool volumes.
May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019
6 min
A summary of the agricultural markets in Australia. This week covering the corn-wheat story & livestock
May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019
38 min
Brett Hosking of Grain Growers (and a Victorian farmer) joins the discussion with Mecardo. In this podcast we chat about some of the policies which Grain Growers would like enacted in the coming Australian parliament. We also have a brief chat about the controversial Canadian wheat import permits.
The following topics are discussed:
- Telecommunications and black spots
- Crop insurance
- The importation of whole grain wheat into Australia
- The innovation generation conference held in Ballarat during July.