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Commodity Conversations — 309 episodes
Winter premiums and market shake ups!
What are the Impacts of the Middle East Conflict on Agricultural Markets? -26th March 2026
Hot Start for the Cattle Market - 10th of February
Wide World of Wheat - What's Driving Prices This Harvest? - 20th of November
Steer Clear or Dive in with Cattle – 5 November 2025
Wool market defies gravity - 3rd October 2025
What Direction is the Herd Heading? 15th of August
Managing global challenges thrown at Australian agribusiness - 4th July 2025
Drought, floods, record highs, and politics, wild start to the year - 17th June 2025
Scoping out what's next for sustainability - 2nd May 2025
Rob’s Spinning the Last Yarn - 16th April 2025
Shiploads of success for exports in 2025 - 4th April 2025
Wool market positivity - 21st March 2025
The Tariff test on aussie grain markets - 28th February 2025
What's in store for the autumn in lamb and sheep markets - 14th February 2025
Quarterly Market Update - Q4 2024 - 29th January 2025
What buyers are looking for in weaners - 17th January 2025
What's in store for 2025- 20th December 2025
Why the herd might not be in decline – 13th December 2024
Saddling up for the campdraft that could be the biggest show in town - 6th December 2025
What's happening in cattle country? -29th November 2024
Trump tariffs - 15th November 2024
The Big Opportunity in India - 8th November 2024
Making sense of the current grain market - 1st November 2024
Key Market Updates Q3 2024 - 21st October 2024
An Aussie cropping in Ukraine - 11th October 2024
Eat your Veggies!!! Challenges and opportunities for the Australian vegetable industry - 26th September 2024
Setting the benchmark for lamb carcase with merinos - 20th July 2024
Woolpower: Wool enterprises and the numbers for staying - 16th September 2024
Projecting what's next for the national flock and herd - 6th September 2024
Forecasting Wool production - 20th August 2024
Nice one day, perfect the next: Opportunities in FNQ
Key Market Updates Q2 2024 - 23rd July 2024
Where to for the national flock? 19th July 2024
What to make of the Wool market - 15th July 2024
Winter wondering about the land - 28th June 2024
Steaks getting higher for cattle - 21st June 2026
Supply, demand and the recent rain for the livestock market - 31st May 2024
How will the live export ban impact the wool industry? – 24 May 2024
An update on the Fertiliser market -16th May 2024
Decline in wool production on the cards for 2024/25 - 3rd May 2024
Key Market Updates Quarter 1 2024 - 22nd April 2024
Prime lamb under pressure and benchmarking for success - 19th April 2024
When it rains it pours - 5th April 2024
Impacts of the Middle East Bag Lamb market
Why the NZ sheep flock is in decline - 15th March 2024
What is driving demand in the wool market - 8th March 2024
What we have heard about the US cattle herd- 1st March 2024
Making the most out of the current lamb market -16th February 2024
On the lookout for more cattle- 9th February 2024
Key Market Updates Quarter 4 2023 - 30th January 2024
Impact of large volumes for wool in 2024 - 19th January 2024
What’s driving this strong start for Cattle and Sheep markets? -12th January 2024
Takeaways from a rollercoaster year in commodities- 15th December 2023
The Merino of the future - 1st December 2023
Where grains, oilseeds and wool are at in 2023 - 24th November 2023
How cattle and sheep markets have changed - 17th November 2023
Leaning on weaning - 10th November 2023
Sugar, spice and everything price - 3rd November 2023
Key Market Updates Quarter 3 2023 - 24th October 2023
Making sense of the Lamb market-13th October 2023
Traceability for wool, farm gate to wool tops - 2nd October 2023
Finding opportunity in today’s Lamb and Sheep market - 29th September 2023
”Dairy Beef” production and opportunity - 22nd September 2023
Driving Success for Australian Wool - 15th September 2023
Navigating the challenges ahead for livestock-8th September 2023
Canola’s role in the Biofuel Boom- 1st September 2023
Where to for Wool - 25th August 2023
A Tonne of Mutton and lambs to come - 4th August 2023
The US Cattle Markets differing fortunes- 28th July 2023
Key Market Updates Quarter 2 2023 - 20th July 2023
Regional Cropping Update - 14th July 2023
Lamb of the free, home of the brave-7th July 2023
On the Ranch with Rob - 30th June 2023
The Bovine Boom -23rd June 2023
Global grain update - 16th June 2023
Seeding Success at Tax Time - 9th June 2023
Wool walking a fine line this winter - 2nd June 2023
El need to know - Weather update- 26th May 2023
Sticking to the biosecurity plan - 19th May 2023
Beef, Budgets and Biosecurity - 12th May 2023
Regional livestock roundup - 5th May 2023
Leadership success along the supply chain - 28th April 2023
Key Market Updates Quarter 1 2023 - 21st April 2023
Key drivers of livestock profitability - 14th April 2023
Lambs’ seat at the trade table - 6th April 2023
Ewe have got to be in it to win it - 31st March 2023
Commodity Outlook: Climate, Conflict, China, Costs & COVID - 24th March 2023
Managing cashflow for a tighter outlook - 10th March 2023
The fruits of 10 years labour - 3rd March 2023
Why fertiliser skyrocketed in 2022, and what’s in store for 2023? - 24th February 2023
Recruiting for the future of Agriculture - 17th February 2023
Saddling up with Performance horses - 10th February 2023
Key market insights from last quarter- 3rd February 2023
Understanding what to expect in the livestock market - 20th January 2023
Understanding the Argus Feeder Steer Indicator - 14th January 2023
Part 2: How australian agriculture is exceeding expectations - 16th December 2022
How australian agriculture is exceeding expectations - 9th December 2022
What’s driving the livestock market - 6th December 2022
How to mitigate risk - 25th November 2022
What’s impacting cattle supply this season - 18th November 2022
Spring lamb supply picking up pace - 11th November 2022
Market insights Q3 2022 – 4th November 2022
Wool weathering the storm(s)– 28th October 2022
Managing risk with cattle swaps – a new era for Aussie beef, 21st October 2022
Unseasonal seasons – 14th October 2022
Macro-factors rain on markets – 7th October 2022
Iberian agriculture uncovered – 30th September 2022
Connections in the saleyards - 21st September 2022
FMD & LSD, a report from Bali – Friday 16th September 2022
The grains & oilseed flipside – 4th September 2022
From milk to grass - the science behind weaning, 28th August 2022
Behind ’the gavel’ with AuctionsPlus - 19th August 2022
Herd primed for growth
Getting off the sheep & lamb market rollercoaster - 5th August 2022
The digital future of the livestock industry - 29th July 2022
Old season lambs dragging the chain – July 21st 2022
Market insights Q2 2022 – July 20th 2022
Non-mulesed pathway driven by data & a whole farm perspective – 16th July 2022
Will ag commodities weather the storm? – 8th July 2022
More mouths, more money & Australia in prime position – 1st July 2022
Rising weights & falling grain, market wrap with Mecardo – 24th June 2022
Maximising sheep & lamb health - 17th June 2022
Research cuts to agriculture when we should be investing more than ever - 11th June 2022
The sustainability story - 3rd June 2022
FMD & LSD - has the risk increased? 27th May 2022
Currency, commodity corrections & crossbreds - 23th May 2022
India free trade agreement and more – 15th May 2022
Goat market kicking goals – 7th May 2022
Learning from the roo’s - 29th April 2022
Market wrap - 21st April 2022
Biosecurity alarm bells – 14th April 2022
China still hungry for aussie proteins - 2nd April 2022
Unprecedented times or history repeating? - 25th March 2022
Russian roulette, volatility on the rise - 18th March 2022
Market wrap with Adrian & Dave - 11th March 2022
Wheat sweats on New World order – 4th March 2022
Online is on trend – 25th February 2022
Tipping the protein scales - 18th February 2022
The profitability playoffs: 2020/21 benchmarking review – 11th February, 2022
Herd rebuild in the hands of the north, MLA cattle projections update - 4th February 2022
Global grains & oilseeds outlook – 28th January 2022
Shear gas: beer, shearer wages & GHG emission - 21st January 2022
Weaners all round – Summer cattle update 14th January 2022
What does 2022 have in store for us? - 7th January 2022
Good signs for agriculture in 2022 - 22nd December 2021
Merino wool, a global perspective - 20th December 2021
Changing dynamics, the processors point of view – 10th December 2021
Mutton to worry about - lamb and sheep market update with Ron Rutledge - 3rd December 2021
November rain - Mecardo market update 26th November 2021
Navigating the seasons & keeping lambs alive - 19th Novemeber 2021
Contradictory factors push & pull wool - 12th Novemeber 2021
Strike while the irons hot- 5th Novemeber 2021
Lamb supply snakes & ladders - 29th October 2021
A great time for a big crop - 22nd October 2021
Preparing the next generation of Ag - 15th October 2021
Fibres, fashion and the fate of wool - 8th October 2021
Good weather for wethers - 1st October 2021
Rain, hail or shine - Long term weather outlook with Eric Snodgrass - 25th September 2021
Kurra Wirra & Mecardo - a look back & forward - 18th September 2021
What‘s the beef with Brazil? - 10th September 2021
Have we hit peak agriculture? - 3rd September 2021
PTIC Plus – An Australian First? 27th August 2021
From Pooginook to Paris, Wool connections with Mark Symes - 21st August 2021
The download on digital stock sales - 13th August 2021
Big beef abroad - 6th August 2021
Who will chop the spring lambs? - 30th July 2021
Cashmore 'Nudies' - 23rd July 2021
Market update - 17th July 2021
Market recap - 9th July 2021
On the land in Central Queensland - 2nd July 2021
All eyes on The Americas, a global crop update with Nick Booth – 25th June 2021
Whiskey, Stilton, Bentleys and lawyers - June 18th 2021
More records broken - 11th June 2021
A South American special - June 6th 2021
What’s keeping livestock producers up at night? - 28th May 2021
What to expect from the herd rebuild - 21st May 2021
An MLA cattle projections update with Stephen Bignell - 14th May 2021
To hedge or not to hedge - 7th May 2021
Rural land prices special + Market recap - 30th April 2021
Market recap - 23rd April 2021
The cattle conundrum - 16th April 2021
Talking Wool with Andrew Woods - 9th April 2021
Easter Weekend Market Wrap - 1st April 2021
Uruguayan wool special- 26th March 2021
Market recap - 19th March 2021
Tracking livestock trends - 12th March 2021
Market recap - 5th March 2021
Hefty prices on the road to rebuild - 26th February 2021
Keeping positive - Mark Symes and the state of the wool industry - 19th February 2021
Carbon neutral red meat - playing our part in emission targets 12th February 2021
Tightening stocks, rampant buying and wheat along for the ride - 5th February 2021
Grass fever rolls on - 29th January 2021
Weekly market wrap- 22nd January 2021
The business of succession - 15th January 2021
Southern weaner sales like no other - 8th January 2021
Looking back on 2020
That’s a wrap for wool - 18th December 2020
What's in store for the weaner sales? - 11th December 2020
Consumers: the real Ag influencers - 4th December 2020
Fert Fundamentals - 27th November 2020
Market Recap - 20th November 2020
What's in the WASDE? 13th November 2020
Market Recap - 6th November 2020
Global grain update
Rain, restockers and rebuilding in the North - 23rd of October 2020
Exporting wool in challenging times - October 16th 2020
A look at the lamb trade - 9th October 2020
Cattle trading at record store prices - October 1st 2020
100th Episode Commodity Roundup - looking back and forward
Market Recap - September 18th 2020
Market Recap - September 11th 2020
Market Recap - September 4th 2020
Market Recap - 28th August 2020
Market Recap - 21st August 2020
Market Recap - 14th August 2020
Market Recap 7th August 2020
Market Recap - 31st July 2020
Market Recap - 24th July 2020
Market Recap - 17th July 2020
#29 Meat and wool megatrends- what do they mean on-farm?
Market Recap - 3rd July 2020
#28 Meat and wool megatrends- what's changed?
Market Recap - 19th June 2020
Market Recap - 12th June 2020
Market Recap - 31st May 2020
Market Recap - 22nd May 2020
Market Recap - 15th May 2020
Market Recap - 1st May 2020
Market Recap - 24th April 2020
Market Recap - 17th April 2020
#27 Markets with the Mecardo team.
#26 What's happening in the wool market?
Market Recap - 3rd April 2020
Market Recap - 28th March 2020
#25 Does the tyranny of distance offer protection?
Market Recap - 21st March 2020
#24 Coronavirus - The wider economy & FX
Market Recap - 13th March 2020
Market Recap - 6th March 2020
Market Recap - 28th February 2020
Market Recap - 14th February 2020
Market Recap - 7th February 2020
#23 Phase 1 - Our view on the Australian impact
Market Recap - 17th January 2020
#22 Bushfire crisis in livestock
Market Recap - 20th December 2019
#21 What is with this weather?
Market Recap - 13th December 2019
Market Recap - 6th December 2019
Market Recap - 29th November 2019
#20 An independent view of the fertilizer market
Market Recap - 23rd November 2019
Market Recap - 15th November 2019
#19 What happens when the drought breaks?
Market Recap - 8th November 2019
Market Recap - 1st November 2019
#18 The yarn with the contenders
#17 Supermarkets - friend or foe?
Market Recap - 25th October 2019
#16 A visit to the Canberra Bubble
Market Update - 18th October 2019
#15 Aporkalypse now
Market Recap - 11th October 2019
Market Recap - 4th October 2019
#14 A chat with a fake meat advocate
Market Recap - 27th September 2019
Market Recap - 20th September 2019
Market Recap - 13th September 2019
Market Recap - 6th September 2019
#13 The fate of the merino
Market Update - 30th August 2019
Market Update - 23rd August 2019
#12 The road to $100bn with Fiona Simson
Market Update - 16th August 2019
Market Update - 9th August 2019
Market Update - 2nd August 2019
#11 Insolvency in the grain game
Market Update - 26th July 2019
#10 Climate change with Oscar
Market Update - 19th July 2019
Market Update - 12th July 2019
#9 What did I learn from my time in Africa?
Market Update - 5th July 2019
Market Update - 28th June 2019
Market Update - 21st June 2019
Market Update - 13th June 2019
#8 Farm Succession - Tips to ease the transition
Market Update - 7th June 2019
Market Update - 31st May 2019
#7 Post Election discussion & wheat imports
Market Update - 24th May 2019
Market Update - 17th May 2019
#6 Election Special
Market Update - 13th May 2019
#5 The taste of fake meat and its potential impact
Market Update - 3rd May 2019
Market Update - 26th April 2019
Market Update - 18th April 2019
#4 Live export - 1 year on from the Awassi Express
Market Update - 12th April 2019
Market Update - 5th April 2019
#3 An Aussie taking on Africa
Market Update - 29th March 2019
Market Update - 22nd March 2019
#2 Agtech - is it all hype?
Market Update - 15th March 2019
Market Update - 8th March 2019
#1 Social Licence in Agriculture