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RawAg Podcast
by Te Mania Angus
RawAg is your link to the food chain – and every episode will take you somewhere along that chain.From conception to consumption, you will hear from the cutting-edge players in Australian agriculture with industry news, unique views, and presentations.We can all be better farmers, sustainable, regenerative, and innovative. We can all be more informed and aware consumers.And RawAg, brought to you by Te Mania Angus, is your next big step in that direction.Visit temania.com.au for more information and please let us know what you want to hear about on the RawAg podcast.
Episodes
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S2 E7: Tim McGrath - Low Stress Stockhandling takes to the sky.
Tim McGrath is Senior Agribusiness Development Officer with Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. He has over 25 years of Agri-business development experience working across all major agricultural industries in Northern Australia. Tim has developed a passion for understanding...
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S2 E6 - Allan Parker: The Art and Science of Negotiation.
Allan Parker OAM is a Micro Behavioural Scientist and Negotiator. Allan usually introduces himself as an eccentric Micro-Behavioural Neuroscientist, International Negotiator, and Educator. He works as a negotiator/facilitator of large-scale multi-party negotiations and disputes. Within government...
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S2 E5 - John McKillop: A Five Step Strategic Plan For Successful Business Management
John McKillop has held numerous senior agribusiness roles over the past 25 years including CEO of Hassad Australia, Managing Director of Clyde Agriculture and his current role as CEO of S.Kidman & Co and Hancock Agriculture. In addition to executive roles, John is currently the Independent Chair…
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Season 2 Episode 4 - Charlie Perry: Returning Home to Agriculture
Charlie Perry manages the family business, Trent Bridge Wagyu in the Northern Tablelands of NSW. Producing high performing bulls for the Full Blood and First Cross market for the last 16 years. They sell approximately 150 Wagyu bulls privately each year. Their bulls are bred with a focus on...
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Season 2 Episode 3; Justin McNab - The Australian Energy Sector.
Justin McNab is the Executive Director of BluePool Energy, a private, independent advisor to investors and companies operating in the energy, renewables and infrastructure sector. Prior to establishing BluePool in 2017, Justin worked for a number of years as Head of Business Development in Asia…
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Season 2, Ep 2: Robert Wyld - The Power Of Data And Problem Solving
Robert Wyld grew up on a cattle and sheep property in the Western District of Victoria. After school, Robert attended Melbourne University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours. He began his career working in the construction industry, working on the Crown Casino development...
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Season 2, Episode 1: Dr. Alison Kennedy - Director of the National Centre for Farm Health
Alison is a Behavioural Scientist who has lived and worked in Victoria’s rural farming community for almost two decades. Her expertise in rural/farmer mental health and suicide prevention has drawn on a range of innovative techniques including digital interventions, digital storytelling…
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Episode 33: Jim Wade - Animal Nutrition, optimising animal performance.
Jim Wade has a Rural Science degree from the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. Jim works as a consulting nutritionist in his own Agricultural Consulting Company (WAC), which started in August 2003. He works with a wide range of feed and premix companies, some government departments like...
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Episode 32: Richard McFarlane - managing grazing for the land, cattle and the bottom line.
Richard, Emma and Janet McFarlane run the oldest Angus beef herd in South Australia. Established in 1845, the 19,000 acre property is situated in the Upper South East of South Australia on the shores of Lake Alexandrina. Wellington Lodge has been owned and operated by the McFarlane family for six...
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Episode 31: Grant Sims - Multi species seed mixes and no till farming for better soils and outstanding production.
No-till Producer Grant Sims is a sixth generation farmer running the family farm with his wife Naomi and 4 children in North central Victoria Australia. The farm is 8,500 acres of dryland and some irrigation. The Sims farm has been utilizing no-till farming practices since the early 80's thanks…
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Episode 30: Jon Wright - improving net feed intake for production, profitability and the planet
Jon Wright is a beef cattle seedstock producer from Woodstock NSW near Cowra. Being the 4th generation on the property, cattle have been in his blood from the start. Passionate about breeding and maximising production gains, he started the Blue - E line of cattle in 1997. Blue - E was a composite...
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Episode 29: Matt Wolcott - Cow Reproduction Efficiency and Profitability
Matt has worked with the Animal Genetic and Breeding Unit (AGBU) since October 2004, in the development and improvement of genetic evaluation technologies for beef cattle breeders. Key areas of research have included the development of new traits to describe female productivity in tropically...
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Episode 28: Oli Le Lievre - Agricultural Enthusiast
Oli Le Lievre is the Content Marketing Manager at AuctionsPlus and the Founder of Humans of Agriculture. His career to date has seen him working in a variety of roles ranging from farm management, to fresh produce export, corporate agribusiness advisory to agtech startups. Oli is passionate about...
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Episode 27: Lewis Frost - innovation through agritech ecosystems
Lewis Frost is chief operating officer of Ceres Tag, the world’s first direct to satellite smart ear tag and data platform for livestock. In other words, Lewis is a brainiac; and brings to the beef industry a background spanning animal monitoring, livestock genomics, animal health and molecular...
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Episode 26: Garry and Leanne Hall - living and thriving in the wetlands and the dry.
Garry and Leanne Hall are cattle producers from the Macquarie Marshes in north central NSW. Part of their property is Ramsar (International Convention on Wetlands) listed, which creates an extra level of responsibility and connection with their landscape. The Halls, with their two children, are...
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Episode 25: James Wagstaff - A Voice for Agriculture
James Wagstaff is editor of The Weekly Times. Having grown up on a sheep station in the NSW Riverina he started his career as a journalist at the Daily Advertiser in Wagga Wagga in 1998. In 2004, he shifted to Melbourne and The Weekly Times and served in a number of roles including Deputy Editor,...
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Episode 24: Doug Avery - Being a Resilient Farmer
20 years ago, Doug embarked on a journey of change. Driven by the need to survive drought, it's been the most rewarding journey of his life. Writing the Resilient Farmer was Doug’s way of saying thank you to the people and processes that drove his change. Doug, his wife Wendy and their family…
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Episode 23: Colin Henke - The Power of Genetic Turnover
Colin Henke grew up in the South East of South Australia. He pursued a farming career by starting at the bottom as a jackaroo before purchasing his own land (courtesy of an initiative of the Rural Finance Corporation of Victoria targeting young farmers). By combining management of the family farm...
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Episode 22: Tom Gubbins on Quality Meat Scotland Podcast
The Quality Meat Scotland podcast began in April 2020. With guests including Diana Rogers, author of the Sacred Cow and topics ranging from market trends, profitability and resilience, best practice and developments in the red meat sector. In this episode, Tom Gubbins, host of the RawAg podcast…
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Episode 21: Rob Banks - Genetic Gain from Bees to Bulls
Professor Robert Banks has been involved in developing and managing RDE projects with very high impact nationally. This includes the establishment and growth of LAMBPLAN and MERINOSELECT, the significant increase in the rate of genetic progress in beef cattle in Australia, and the development and...
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Episode 20: Shawn Andrews - An indigenous perspective on farming and education
Shawn is a descendant of the Mununjali people of South East Queensland and the Palawa people of Tasmania. Shawn is a graduate of Monash University with a Bachelor Education and Sport and Outdoor Recreation, recently graduated Murra Indigenous Business Masterclass at Melbourne Business School and…
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Episode 19: James Playfair - Hannay: Farming for the future in an ancient landscape
James Playfair - Hannay is a fourth generation farmer from Morebattle Tofts, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Farming 4,300 acres in the Cheviot Hills, an area of low rainfall ( by UK standards ) and free draining soils rising from 300 ft above sea level to 1,200. Home to the Tofts herds of…
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Episode 18: Enoch Bergman - Ramped up rebreeding
Dr Enoch Bergman is a vet from Swans Veterinary Sevices in Esperance, Western Australia. Enoch grew up in Wild Horse, Colorado and after graduating from University, moved to Australia, fell in love and fortunately for us, never left. Since his arrival Enoch has been actively involved in…
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Episode 17: Jason Trompf - Farming Enterprise Profitability
Dr Jason Trompf - Farmer Bahavourial Change. Jason Trompf from Lambs Alive has been working as an Agricultural Consultant for over 20 years. Jason has a strong background in understanding the drivers and motivators of sheep and beef producers and designing programs that support and enable…
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Episode 16 - Steven Brain: The Ideas Man
Stephen Brain - ideas man. Steve grew up on his parents mixed enterprise farm between Wilaura and Lake Bolac in Western Victoria. A Merino sheep, Angus cattle and cereal cropping property, they also ran an earthmoving business. After school and studying Humanities at Ballarat Uni and Psychiatric...
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Episode 15 - Shannon Speight - Beef Industry Innovations
Shannon Speight is the CEO and Cofounder of Black Box Co, an innovative Saas product solving big data problems in the livestock industry. Aside from Black Box, Shannon is a wife, mother, farmer and qualified veterinarian. She has extensive experience across the beef industry from beginning work…
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Episode 14 - Lyn Sykes - Succession and Communication
Lyn is a recognised leader in the traditionally male world of agriculture. For more than three decades she has made a significant contribution to improving skills relating to communication and succession. Lyn is recognised as the pioneer of a family-focused approach to succession planning…
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Episode 13 - Dr Craig Wood
Woody has been a vet at Terang and Mortlake vet clinic since 2002 after completing his studies at Murdoch university in WA. He was a previous owner after selling to Apiam in 2018. A mixed practice vet specialising in large animals, Woody works closely with many well recognised Australian beef…
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Episode 12 - Richard Rains
Richard Rains grew up on a mixed farm near Dunedoo in the central west of NSW. Educated at boarding school in Sydney and went on to a cadetship with Dalgety. Whilst there, in 1974, he sold the first beef to Korea that the country ever imported and it quickly grew to become Australia’s…
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Episode 11 - Mike Carroll
Mike Carroll has more than 35 years experience in food and agribusiness with current directorships including Select Harvests, Paraway Pastoral Company, Viridis Ag and Rural Funds Management. Mike is also chair of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation. Former board roles include Sunny Queen...
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Episode 10 - Jack & Jennda Roxburgh - Team Work Underpins Success at Coomete
Jack and Jen Roxburgh, from Coomete in Western Victoria, run one of Victoria’s longest continually held family farms. Coomete was selected in 1860 and has never been sold. The operation is fairly evenly split between beef cattle, sheep and crops. This multifaceted business is only possible...
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Episode 9: Alison Van Eenennaam
Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the field of Animal Genomics and Biotechnology at the University of California. Alison has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, a Masters in Animal Science, and a PhD in Genetics. The mission of her extension program is “to provide...
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Episode 8 - Thomas Macdonald - Mentors, Milestones and Milking Sheep
Thomas Macdonald was the winner of the prestigious Zanda McDonald award in 2018. A third-generation dairy farmer from Gordonton in the Waikato, he has a strong desire to see New Zealand products championed on the world stage. He is the General Manager of Milk Supply for Spring Sheep, a growing...
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Episode 7 - George King - Triple Bottom Line
George King is the Managing Director of “The Whitney Pastoral Company” and the fifth generation to live at historic "Coombing Park" in central west NSW. George is a passionate regenerative farmer and an outspoken advocate for agriculture. He has a fascinating and rational insight into…
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Episode 6 - David Beggs - Animal Welfare
Dr. David Beggs has been a vet in Warrnambool for over 30 years. He is a senior lecturer in Cattle Medicine at Melbourne University, Editor in Chief of the Australian Veterinary Journal and has a Ph.D. in animal welfare. David is currently undertaking research into dairy cattle medicine,...
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Episode 5 - Susie Chisholm
Susie Chisholm is a passionate cattle farmer from Adelong in NSW. Susie moved to her property, Gwalia in 1984 with her husband, who died not long after the move. Susie has been running the operation ever since. An advocate for performance recording and data capture, Susie has built her herd into...
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Episode 4 - Nic Kentish
Nic Kentish was born in 1964 and raised on his families' farm near Mt. Gambier in South Australia. After leaving school, Nic set about pursuing a career that often led him "somewhere east of the sunrise". Now settled in the Adelaide Hills with his wife Alexi and three children, Nic combines his...
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Episode 3 - Fiona Conroy
Fiona Conroy and her husband Cam Nicholson, run a mixed farming enterprise in south western Victoria. Their journey to a carbon neutral farm began over 25 years ago and this episode highlights how they have been able to achieve carbon neutrality, increased productivity, soil health and…
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Episode 2 - David Johnston
David Johnston is a Principal Scientist at the Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit in Armidale NSW. David has a Doctorate of Philosophy, a Masters of Rural Science, and a Bachelor of Rural Science. He is currently involved in some very exciting research focused on improving the reproductive rates…
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Episode 1 - Dr Terry McCosker - Loving the land
Dr Terry McCosker talks to us about loving the land and his rather special connection with the environment, as well as the resultant solutions that we have for so many agricultural issues throughout Australia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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RawAg is your link to the food chain – and every episode will take you somewhere along that chain.From conception to consumption, you will hear from the cutting-edge players in Australian agriculture with industry news, unique views, and presentations.We can all be better farmers, sustainable, regenerative, and innovative. We can all be more informed and aware consumers.And RawAg, brought to you by Te Mania Angus, is your next big step in that direction.Visit temania.com.au for more information and please let us know what you want to hear about on the RawAg podcast.
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