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AgWatchers — 332 episodes

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How to Talk Ag Without Boring Everyone Senseless

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AgWatchersX EP12: What is happening with grain, fert and livestock

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AgWatchersX Ep12: Grain, fert, livestock - what is happening?

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Fuel, Fertiliser and Foreign Affairs: A Conversation with Minister Julie Collins

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Eggonomics 101

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Bringing Agritechnica to Australia

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Fuel and Inputs - the response from NSW Farmers

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Why does meat taste so great?

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Startups vs corporates

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AgWatchers X EP11: Tariffs Times

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The two food groups - wine and lamb

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Weather stations and Cows for Cambodia

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Genetics: Improving efficiency and creating 6 legged lambs.

14

'On an even Kealy' with Emma Kealy MP.

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AgWatchers X EP10: The new A$138 million bill for ag from the government.

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Australian agriculture hitting new highs

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When you Whish upon a senator.

18

AgWatchersX EP9: Trump-XI.

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AgWatchersX EP8: Farmers aid, cattle exports, grains holding

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The pests invading Australia

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AgWatchersX EP7: Biofuels bonanza (for grain and livestock), beef/sheep prices rocketing higher

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Who represents farmers in Parliament?

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AgWatchersX EP6: Why are grain prices low, grain fed beef on the rise

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Chief of farming, Mushroom farming and beef wellingtons

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AgWatchers X5: Canadian Canola Cancelled, Livestock going gangbusters

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Fighting Drought, protesting policy and more with John Bennett

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Roleplaying, personalities and sales

28

AI Explosion

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Indigenous Identity in Agriculture

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Agritechnica comes to Australia (again!)

31

MLA CEO: End of carbon neutral 2030, 5 year plan and more.

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Episode 300: A big annoucement.

33

AgWatchersX EP4: Urea, grains and livestock.

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AgWatchersX EP3: Israel vs Iran, trashy magazines, wheat doldrums and record meat exports.

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Drought in South Australia

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AgWatchers X EP2: Record lamb pricing, where are the drought premiums?

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The conversations that count.

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Why doesn't it rain on me, in SA and Victoria?

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Financing the farm, unrealised capital gains and hitchhikers.

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AgWatchersX EP1: The ag markets update

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From paddocks to power: Climate, Politics & the Future of Farming

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Australia: The Complacent Nation

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AgWatchers+ EP17: Sheep through the roof, mixed in cattle and grains potential.

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Profit and preparation with Kate Burke

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Grain election priorities and autonomous farming

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AgWatchers+ EP16: Market dynamics in livestock, currency and low stocks of grains.

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ALP's offer for agriculture

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AgWatchers+ EP15: Deluge in the north

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Growing wealth away from the farm.

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AgWatchers+ Ep14: Wheat/corn stocks very tight, cattle on grain and Chinese barriers to US beef

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The Bignell outlook

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Hoiberg Tangent

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Trade tariffs trash canola trade

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AgWatchers+ Ep13: Trumps tricky tariffs and local markets

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David Littlepround joins AgWatchers for a chat.

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AgWatchers+ Ep12: Bad European rules, wheat rally, cattle rebuild and sheep fall

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Agriculture at the movies

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Peasants, preppers and guns

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AgWatchers+ EP11: Trump tariffs impact on canola, cattle and sheep pricing

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Ewe've Got Mail: The Sheepish Side of Data

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Best ag movies, paraquat and the looming election impact

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AgWatchers+ EP10 : Weaners, middle east peace and declining grain stocks

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The real inauguration - new VFF president

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AgWatchers+ EP9 : Red meat good, wheat potential and urea cheaper

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Meat the world

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That's a wrap on 2025 - next year will be more exciting.

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AgWatchers+ EP8: Betting on wheat, Mutton record and China slowdown.

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Zeitgeist: Bovaer, Woolies protest and China wants us

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What's all the fuss with the pommies?

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AgWatchers+ EP7: Cattle, Sheep and Grains update

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The drinks are on us

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AgWatchers+ EP6: Trump Victory Special.

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Land prices and foreign ownership

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AgWatchers+ EP5

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These roads are trucked.

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Overcoming grief.

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AgWatchers+ EP4

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Zeitgeist 3: Chemical ban, China stimulus and dockworkers

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AgWatchers+ EP3

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El Presidente of Australian agriculture

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Zeitgeist 2: Making it rain, Unhappy growers and supermarket competition

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AgWatchers+ EP2

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What's happening with the grain trade?

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Zeitgeist 1 - Rally, cheese and Ag chemicals

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Would you like a beer?

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AgWatchers+ EP1

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Hoiberg Tangent: New labour laws and redundancies in ag.

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The climate of the farmers

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Election, Paraquat, break dancing and more

90

AgTechWatchers: Reducing paperwork, cybersecurity and misinformation in AG

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The farmer with many hats

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Inheriting problems and solutions.

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AgTechWatchers: He's a funghi

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Don't be a careless farmer, or you might end up in a crop of trouble

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The Agwatchers find love.........

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Going viral in agriculture

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The final end for live sheep exports?

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Senate decisions, livestock prices doubling and grain prices crashing

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Colin Bettles: Robots, peak body funding, chemicals and a lot more.

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The onus is on you to count carbon on farm.

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Court cases, peak body funding and the VFF

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Check yo self, before you represent yo self.

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Drag acts, advocacy, kebabs and communicating with the city.

104

Baby Reindeer, livestock and grain pricing.

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The state of the government.

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The rise of the machines

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Trump, wheat rally and virus in the meat

108

Happy hour with the Dry Farmer

109

Praise to the meat.

110

What's happening in the ag markets?

111

Exposing the future of ag

112

Causing a Hassell

113

Pip off the old block

114

Will AI take over our farms?

115

What in the world?

116

Getting new foods on supermarket shelves.

117

It's a bug's life.

118

AgWatchers go to the movies with Just a Farmer.

119

Market Morsel - A conversation about commodities.

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Keeping it rural

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Agriculture for all

122

The Queen of Sheepa

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Ute ban, MV Bahijah and the NFF relationship with government.

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This is a conversation starter

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Skyes the limit in agtech.

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The ag minister from the shadows.

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Biosecurity - a new levy or a tax?

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You're so Wyn*, you probably think this auctions about you

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Meat Vending Machine

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#205 The end of 2023

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#204 Thinking outside, or on the box.

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#203 It’s all smoke and clear mirrors.

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#202 Love me tender, love me inputs.

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#201 The king of black pudding.

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#200 Grabrielle sounds the trumpet.

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#199 Raising the steaks.

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#198 It’s just not cricket with Brad Hogg.

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#197 Urea, you gotta see her with Chris Lawson

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#196 Finding the people of agriculture

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#195 The big events in ag in twenty minutes

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#194 Plowing Politics: The Journey to NFF Presidency - Tony York

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#193 Plowing Politics: The Journey to NFF Presidency - Georgie Somerset

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#192 Plowing Politics: The Journey to NFF Presidency - David Jochinke

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#191 Pigs might fly.

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#190 We are going to need a smaller flock.

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#189 Sheep sliding, grains gaining and hilux for sale.

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#188 Who the f#$k is Alice?

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#187 The war on water?

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#186 Misinformation and disinformation - voices in agriculture.

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#185 Sheep farming in a foreign land.

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#184 The end days of the economy?

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#183 The agent of agents.

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#182 Breaking News: Barley Tariff Removed

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#181 Cultural vs Agricultural.

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#180 Grain gains, livestock pains and urea game

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#179 Carbon Cowboys part 2

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#178 Plowing through the stress of farming.

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#177 What’s the backlog with meat processing?

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#176 Chilli, competition and confidence

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#175 In defence of meat

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#174 We welcome our robot overlords

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#173 Watt’s up? A chat with the ag minister.

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#172 The silence of the lambs

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#171 Biosecurity budget - a levy or a tax on farming?

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#170 Two bob’s worth

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#169 Guns, germs and succession (from Australia).

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#168 Grain and Graze - Market Update

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#167 Educating the next generation about agriculture

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#166 Littleprouds scorecard for Watt.

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#165 Australia and China enter into couples therapy.

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#164 China back for barley?

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#163 Agricultural Truths - Emma Uncut.

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#162 Opening a potash mine

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#161 Fertilizer price crash.

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#160 Affairs in the Aussie Sheep Industry.

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#159 The loosest market update

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#158 Carbon Cowboys

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#157 Some market musings.

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#156 Terrible Trudeau and sheep in the snow.

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#155 Free trade ain’t free

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#154 Farming in Britain

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#153 Making fashion in Australia

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#152 Labour pains in Agriculture

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#151 Sheep in the heart of Texas

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#150 Chan Solo

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#149 We meat a butcher

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#148 A solution to farm labour pains

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#147 The market brief

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#146 The rain mainly falls on the grain

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#145 Farming in the land of the long white cloud

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#144 Bringing technology to livestock pricing.

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#143 The AgWatchers / Global Sheep Forum Launch

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#142 The wool over your ears

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#141 Livestock, grains and fertilizer

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#140 Ukrainian update from the ground with Elena.

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#139 No meatworks, no livestock industry

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#138 The Next Episode - what is in store for TEM?

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#137 When will fertilizer prices fall?

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#136 Fertilizer to the moon, Red meat in demand

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#135 Falling grain prices and rising livestock numbers

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#134 Counting sheep and singing you to sleep.

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#133 You having a Raff? with Senator Ciccone

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#132 The Bees Knees with Dugald Saunders MP

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#131 Calm the Farm

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#130 Ukraine Grain Deal and Falling Livestock Pricing.

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#129 Two long years of AgWatchers

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#128 The Facts on FMD from the Chief Vet

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#127 Road Trippin

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#126 The Presidents views on the industry.

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#125 Flowing through the big topics.

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#124 Getting our meat trade back

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#123 Restocking livestock, China barley ban and ’opening’ of Ukraine.

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#122 Day Zero for Water?

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#121 Carbon Dating

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#120 Be profitable in agriculture

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#119 We take on diversity.

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#118 Wheat to the moon

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#117 Livestock in sheep shape.

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#116 The Cupid of Agriculture

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#115 Government created black swans

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#114 Inflated interest in inflation

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#113 What is in store for fertilizer pricing?

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#112 Elections, Lumpyskin and diverse opinions.

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#111 Indian FTA, US Crop disaster? and livestock into China

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#110 Should consumers be paying more for food?

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#109 The end of an era with Malcolm Bartholomaeus

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#108 China coming back for barley?

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#107 My Journey from Kiev.

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#106 The Great Fuel Crisis of 2022 and Beyond

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#105 Three Wild Dogs

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#104 Fertilizer, Grain and Floods

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#102 AgTalkback - Ukraine and Agriculture

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#101 Economics 101 with the Kouk.

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#100 Ag Talkback - bringing the audience in.

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#99 An Australian first in podcasting.

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#98 Spreading Fertilizer Information with Chris Lawson

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#97 Give us 13 minutes, we’ll give you the world

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#96 Absolutely offal

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#95 Living in the shadow of war

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#94 Will Russia invade?

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#93 Commodity Conversations

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#92 Bring on 2022

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#91 La Nina and unhappy farmers

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#90 Sheep shape and fertilizer glimmer of hope.

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#89 The robots are coming for your grain.

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#88 Wet effect on grain and livestock

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#87 As raindrops say, two’s company, three’s a cloud.

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#86 Live from Global Grain

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#85 Chinese military helping our market.

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#84 A COP out

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#83 Sirloin or soy, T-bone or tofu?

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#82 Geneva Grain Unconventional

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#81 Sheep and grain update (kind of)

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#80 We Doug into Ag Data

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#79 A Bolt out of the Blue

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#78 Hitting the Neale on the head of AgTech

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#77 Meat and two grains

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#76 VIC lockdown impact with Richard Riordan MP.

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#75 China to ban fertilizer exports?

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#74 Biosecurity = national security.

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#73 Staffing crisis is not just on the farm.

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#72 The world is your oyster

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#71 Fertilizer, Canola and livestock update

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#70 The State of the Supply Chain

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#69 State of the industry with Fiona Simson

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#68 From Russia with love

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#67 Word on the street.

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#66 The carcass cutting crisis

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#65 Red hot machinery

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#64 A transparent grain market.

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#63 Moving to the country with Simon Kuestenmacher

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#62 Wheat price starts to nudge close to A$400/mt

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#61 The politics of wool

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#60 Have a finke about it.

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#59 The good times - Wheat at A$370, EYCI at 1000¢

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#58 Rusted on agriculture with Gabrielle Chan

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#57 Urea for A$109/mt*

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#56 A terrible year in Canada causes jump in canola.

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#55 Hay, how you doing?

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#54 A Frenchman, a Scotsman and an Australian walk into.........

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#53 FTA, EYCI jump and volatile grain

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#52 Where is the fert price going, and are we in a supercycle?

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#51 The big ag policy issues

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#50 Kerry Lonergan tells all.

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#49 Trucking life

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#48 Westralia with Mae Connelly

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#47 Are you bogged mate?

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#46 Return from the festival of beef

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#45 Is Australia up to the grain export task?

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#44 Farming on the fringe

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#43 Canola to the moon, and the EYCI to sink?

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#42 Fixing the sheep industry with Andrew Freshwater

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#41 EYCI at 900¢ and the silly season in grain.

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#40 Welcome to the country 3/4's of an hour with Warwick Long.

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#39 Is regenerative ag worthwhile? part 2.

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#38 Wool on the water

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#37 All things grain with Brett Hosking

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#36 Market update with the AgWatchers

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#35 Livestock, grain and FX

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#34 Trainspotting and talking manure with Ryan Milgate

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#33 Wool and cattle with Michael De Kleuver

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#32 The market update on livestock and grains.

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#31 Exporting animal welfare with Pat Coole

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#30 Grain interventions, livestock exports and pricing 2021

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#29 Is regenerative agriculture worthwhile?

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#28 Got milk? with John Droppert

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#27 The fall in grain pricing, livestock yardings and the iron ore impact on ag.

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#26 An independent view on the fertilizer market

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#25 The WA crop and sheep with Nathaniel

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#24 Barley into Saudi, cattle herd rebuild & FX

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#23 Impact of US election on trade and our relationship with China.

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#22 Livestock records and great times for grain

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#21 Brexit & trade deals - the impact on Australia

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#20 Market update (livestock & grain)

315

#19 Talking balls with Numnuts

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#18 Getting our 'Phil' of info on the new corporate manslaughter laws.

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#17 We talk canola with ROBE

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#16 Campaigning for live export with Holly Ludeman

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#15 Mixed bag with Graham Lean

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#14 Market update with Trent Osmond

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#13 The rise of Russian wheat with Andrey Sizov

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#11 JBS closure, Beef export prices & WASDE Report

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#10 The fertilizer market with Chris Lawson (CRU)

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#9 Go West with Nathaniel O'Hare

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#8 Livestock, grain & A$ with Trent Osmond

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#7 Life in the centre with Gillian Fennell

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#6 Sheep slaughter, mid year grain and pork imports

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#5 Get some pork on your fork with Margo Andrae

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#4 Troublesome lawyers, CV19 in meatworks and boosting grain

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#3 Meat exports & the fight for acres

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#2 The real deal and the pretenders

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#1 Who the hell are we?