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Propagate
by Young Farmer Business Program
Propagate tells the stories of NSW’s best and brightest young farmers and fishers. Each episode is a candid conversation about the business of primary production. The episodes focus on the business aspect of farming and fishing: from financing your first season, to building a brand, raising capital and managing mental health. We hear how young farmers and fishers got started, and what their plans are for the future. These are stories of innovation, resilience and entrepreneurship. Hear from people who have been where you are. Propagate is brought to you by the NSW Department of Primary Industries Young Farmer Business Program. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the many Aboriginal lands on which this podcast was recorded and produced, and we show our respect for elders past and present.
Episodes
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Stockinpiggle Farm Produce: Jason and Samantha Bates
When Jason and Samantha started their small pig farm in Stockinbingal, they never imagined it would expand to owning a butcher, a bar and a small restaurant. But the two see worth in keeping as much of their work in house, both for practical and ethical reasons.
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Custom Cutting Studio and Hillview Christmas Trees: Kim Sizer
What started as a small metalworks business for Kim and Rob Sizer, expanded into a thriving success. But with the purchase of a bigger property came the need to make a higher profit - and so began their foray into running a Christmas tree farm, as well as producing hay.
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Deano’s Smoked Trout: Dean Williams
Instead of doing what everyone else was doing, when Dean returned to his family farm he decided to do things a little differently. Now he’s running a successful trout farm in Black Mountain - and he’s never out of ideas for how to expand the business.
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Bundy Downs: Molly Wright
Since finishing school, 24 year old Molly has been working full time on her parents farm just outside of Peak Hill, managing the sheep. And she’s learnt a lot from about how to run a farming business under tough conditions. And while the family continues the big succession discussion… for her…
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Millah Murrah Angus Stud: Ross and Dimity Thompson
Learning about regenerative farming methods changed everything for Ross and Dimity, now they’re doing everything they can to care for the land and to protect their cattle business against future droughts - and already they’re seeing big changes.
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Season 6 trailer
In season six of Propagate, we're talking to farmers from all over New South Wales, who are really thinking outside the box when it comes to how they manage their farming businesses. From farmers bringing as much of the business in house as possible, to completely reinventing how their…
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Summit Livestock: Jasmine and Hayden Green
Jasmine and Hayden Green run a cattle seedstock program in Uranquinty, as well as offering embryo and semen packages across multiple sales. For them, a diversification of land and business is the safest way to build a successful and thriving business.
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Oysterlife: Jase Finlay
Jase Finlay and the team at Oyster Life are using new technology in their farming methods to make sure their business is as resilient as possible against future threats, as well as helping them stick to their four day work week.
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Share farming in Trangie: Lewis and Pippa Goodman
Lewis and Pippa Goodman are currently working a piece of land through share farming, while Lewis works for another farmer as well. They see the benefits of working a few different jobs, as well as different properties, to ensure their future stays as stable as possible.
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Goldstein Park Livestock: Tamara and Craig Corby
Tamara and Craig Corby are focused on their goal to own their own piece of land one day. Part of that is staying nimble and always ready to change tactics when a curve ball is thrown their way. After going through the 2019 bushfires, as well as droughts, they could see the benefit of having...
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Bokhara Plains: Graham and Harriet Finlayson
Using regenerative farming methods, Graham Finlayson has been able to help his property survive multiple droughts. Together with his daughter Harriet Finlayson, who runs a chicken enterprise on the farm, they are focused on caring for the land and doing whatever they can to drought proof their...
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Season 5 Trailer
In season five of Propagate, we’re talking to young farmers who are throwing out the traditional farming blueprint and embracing new methods to run their businesses. We’re speaking with growers about what resiliency methods they’re using to make sure they’re prepared for whatever the future brings.
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The Dairy Johns River: Emily and Matt Neilson
Without big capital behind them, Emily and Matt Neilson have had to think outside the box. They’re a bit different to your ‘traditional’ dairy farmers, because they don’t own their land, they lease it.
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Woodstock Flour: Courtney Young and Ian Condon
Courtney Young and Ian Condon started Woodstock Flour at their local farmers market. With community at the heart of everything they do — their flours are milled with Certified Organic grain with love and care.
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Bundarra Berkshires: Lauren Mathers
Lauren and Lachlan Mathers run a free-range regenerative pig farm in southern NSW. They started Bundarra Berkshires because the pair couldn’t source good local pork and wanted a farm full of happy pigs.
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Willowgate farm: Therese and Liam Thomas
Therese and Liam Thomas were city-slickers from Sydney, and now proudly call themselves certified organic garlic farmers. They’ve started small, but just a few years in, they’ve locked in a wholesaler who will take their entire crop.
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Our Cow: Bianca Tarrant and Dave McGiveron
Bianca Tarrant and Dave McGiveron started Our Cow because they wanted to ensure a stable price for their livestock. Now they employ 40 people and have recently raised $2.4 million to grow their meat subscription empire.
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Just Been Laid Eggs: Sarah Sivyer
Sarah Sivyer started Just Been Laid Eggs in the Hunter Valley in 2017. With a subscription and a wholesale arm, Sarah’s business is built on the idea that her eggs are the freshest you’re going to get.
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Season 4 Trailer
In this new season of Propagate, we're speaking to farmers running value-add businesses. We’re spotlighting a generation of growers focused on sustainability, regenerative land management and closing the gap between producers and consumers.
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Hayley Pattison: “It's never been a suggestion that farming’s not for us.”
Hayley Pattison and her husband Matt weren’t planning on taking over their families’ farms. They wanted to make it on their own, and build the farm of their dreams under their own steam. What they weren’t expecting was that things would take off so quickly.
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Mel Kiel: “The trading's just too lucrative.”
Mel Kiel trained and worked as a nurse, but discovered a love for cattle trading that turned into a lifelong passion. Her business only requires a small amount of land and the high turnover is great for cashflow. Here’s how she and her husband turned their home into a successful livestock trading...
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Christine Miles: “They don't realise the drive and the tenacity I have.”
Christine Miles had always dreamed of becoming a farmer, but chose a mining career instead. It wasn’t until she moved to a regional town where people practiced both that she began her gradual transition into the farmer she’d always hoped to become.
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Sam Maiden: “You can start small.”
Sam Maiden’s organic Dorper farm in Broken Hill looks like something out of an old Western movie. Maybe that’s why tourists and film producers love it so much. To land this property (and eventually the neighbouring one too), Sam and her husband Richard started out by purchasing in town at the…
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Matt Flick: “I bite off more than I can chew then chew like hell.”
When Matt Flick started contracting, he was only hoping to make a bit of spending money on top of his farm work. He never imagined it would turn into a full time business with huge demand across Central Western NSW. Over the years, the growth has enabled Matt to purchase tractors and spray rigs,...
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Carissa Wolfe: “We create the opportunities we want.”
Carissa Wolfe and her partner Karyn knew they had a lot to learn before they could run their own dairy. So they gave themselves ten years to travel around America and work on farms of all sizes and practises. They dubbed their journey the “Education Years”, and when it was complete, they brought...
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Tim and Hannah: “There's no end to our ideas.”
Fresh out of high school, Tim and Hannah were on the brink of securing a huge agri-tourism deal on a Central Coast property. It was meant to be their big farming break. When the rug was pulled out from under them, it took all their strength to get back on the horse. They worked hard, planned, and...
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Mitch Highett: “I'm happy to wait for that perfect farm”
Mitch Highett has farmed around the world, worked on the land in NSW, and experienced the business side of ag in Sydney. Today, he runs his own farm management business, and he’s got a plan to use it as a stepping stone to farm ownership.
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Season 3 Trailer
In this new season of Propagate, we're speaking to farmers from all over NSW who haven't inherited a farm. Instead, they're forging their own path to farm ownership and showing you how you can too.
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A Family’s succession story: The Connells Part 1
When Scott and Renae got married and started a family, they dreamed of having their own dairy. It made perfect sense to team up with Scott’s parents in the family dairy business and begin what they thought was a clear succession plan road map. But balancing the family relationships alongside the...
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A Family’s succession story: The Longworths Part 2
The Longworth’s run South Bunarba - a large property near Mungindi in northern NSW, just south of the QLD border. It’s been in the family for 4 generations, and succession planning has been something the family have talked about for years. The kids always thought they’d come home one day, but…
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A Family’s succession story: The Longworths Part 1
The Longworth’s run South Bunarba - a large property near Mungindi in northern NSW, just south of the QLD border. It’s been in the family for 4 generations, and succession planning has been something the family have talked about for years. The kids always thought they’d come home one day, but…
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Lessons from a lawyer and the secret sauce for successful family businesses
Country lawyer Claire Booth has worked with farming families on succession and estate planning for over a decade. She’s seen the best and the worst of it. Inspired by the mistakes she’s seen farming families make, and the financial fall out of these decisions, she applied for and was awarded a...
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A Family’s succession story: Sarah Kennedy and Peter Leitch
Peter Leitch and his wife Margot started succession planning when their three daughters were teenagers. Their story shows it’s never too soon to start these conversations, and that building structures around the farming business can help the next generation navigate working together. Propagate is...
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Claire Booth - first generation farmers can do it too
Country lawyer Claire Booth has worked with farming families on succession and estate planning for over a decade. She’s seen the best and the worst of it. Claire is also a first generation farmer, and she and her husband are determined to not make the same mistakes. In this episode Claire lifts…
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A Family’s succession story: The Connells Part 2
When Scott and Renae got married and started a family, they dreamed of having their own dairy. It made perfect sense to team up with Scott’s parents in the family dairy business and begin what they thought was a clear succession plan road map. But balancing the family relationships alongside the...
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Succession Planning: nuts and bolts with the experts
For farming families, conversations about succession planning can be tough. The stakes are high, and it can be hard to get everyone on the same page. Succession planning experts Isobel Knight, Lyn Sykes and accountant Tom Larkin understand why it’s important for farming families to tackle these...
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Coming soon: Propagate Season 2
In Season 2 of Propagate we’re chatting about one of the biggest challenges for farming families - succession planning. We’ll unpack the essential ingredients for a positive succession plan and hear about how good communication, a clear road map, and the right support, can keep both the family...
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Bodie and Rachel Hill and the power of perception
In this episode, Bodie and Rachel Hill discuss the ups and downs of living and working in one of the most remote parts of the state. Their property, Waka Station is near Cameron Corner at the border between New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland. More than three hours hours away from the...
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Brad Cavanagh and the black cow business
In this episode of Propagate, we visit Brad Cavanagh from Hardhat Angus, situated in Harden, NSW. Originally from a non-farming family in Dubbo, Brad became interested in cattle as a high school student thanks to the Angus Youth program. His interest continued to grow into a full blown passion…
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For Heath Cook, failure is not an option
This episode we set the alarm clock for an early start with Heath Cook, a dairy farmer from Dorrigo in the Northern Tablelands of NSW. It’s a long way from the mines where he spent the first two decades of his working life. But when the fly-in-fly-out mining lifestyle began to keep him away from...
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Olympia Yarger and the buzz business
When you think of farming, it’s very unlikely that you think about farming flies. In fact, if you have any experience on a farm, you probably know how destructive flies can be to livestock. Yet in a small industrial building in the Canberra suburb of Fyshwick, Olympia Yarger is farming flies. And…
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Jarrod and Emma Amery have faith in farming
In this episode, husband and wife team Jarrod and Emma Amery welcome us onto their farm outside of Forbes, NSW. While both Jarrod and Emma grew up amongst farming, it took them a long time for them to find the perfect farm to call their own. Location was obviously one crucial consideration to...
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Angus Maurice and the branding breakthrough
In this episode, Angus Maurice from Farmer Brown’s Pastured Eggs talks us through how a few changes in the way they viewed and presented their business has had an incredible impact on their bottom line. Based in Central West New South Wales, Farmer Brown’s is a family affair, with Angus’ brother,...
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Sheia Kironn is growing organically
In this episode we speak with Sheia Kironn, who owns and operates Lifeforce Farm; a one-acre certified organic farm in Mullumbimby, a small town near Byron Bay, NSW. Sheia grew up in the Midlands of England, where she spent hours gardening with her grandma in a small allotment garden in a council...
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On the water with Paul Aquilina (and Skip)
Today it’s time to put on a lifejacket and cast off with Paul Aquilina, a young fisherman living on the Hawkesbury River, 90 minutes from Sydney. Paul has never been in any doubt that he wanted to be a fisherman and no amount of early morning starts, broken down boats, stolen eel traps, or empty...
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Propagate tells the stories of NSW’s best and brightest young farmers and fishers. Each episode is a candid conversation about the business of primary production. The episodes focus on the business aspect of farming and fishing: from financing your first season, to building a brand, raising capital and managing mental health. We hear how young farmers and fishers got started, and what their plans are for the future. These are stories of innovation, resilience and entrepreneurship. Hear from people who have been where you are. Propagate is brought to you by the NSW Department of Primary Industries Young Farmer Business Program. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the many Aboriginal lands on which this podcast was recorded and produced, and we show our respect for elders past and present.
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Propagate tells the stories of NSW’s best and brightest young farmers and fishers. Each episode is a candid conversation about the business of primary production. The episodes focus on the business aspect of farming and fishing: from financing your first season, to building a brand, raising capital...
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