Join Dave Cornish, Director of the Centre for Professional Development at Marcus Oldham, as he talks with the movers and shakers of the Ag world about the issues affecting the agribusiness sector for Marcus Oldham's AgTalk.
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AgTalk S4E5 - The Importance of Food Security to Australia’s National Security With Andrew Henderson
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Join us this episode as we chat with Andrew Henderson, Principal of Agsecure, on the importance of food security to Australia’s national security. Andrew is a leading strategic policy specialist with a passion for building the sustainability and prosperity of rural and regional Australia and enhancing the recognition of its role in the economy and …
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AgTalk S4E4 - Creating a Resilient Business with Joanne Stevenson
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Join us this week as we talk with Joanne Stevenson, Principal Consultant at Resilient Organisations as she chats to David Cornish about how we can create Resilient Businesses. Over the past decade, Joanne has accumulated post-disaster research and consulting experience in several countries, examining recovery and resilience of communities, economie…
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AgTalk S4E3 - Back to Basics - Focussing on Farm Profit Drivers with Agrista Director John Francis
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Join us this episode as we chat with Agrista Director and consultant, John Francis, about getting back to basics and looking at Farm Profit Drivers. Agrista is an agricultural consultancy focused on improving farm business performance based in Wagga Wagga in Southern New South Wales. Agrista provides consulting services to corporate and family farm…
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AgTalk S4E2 - AI and Agriculture - What’s the potential? With Dr Nici Sweaney
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Dr Nicole (Nici) Sweaney grew up with a fascinationfor animals and science, and always knew it was something she wanted to pursue. But after completing a PhD in which she studied how native butterfly species interact with farmlands and pine plantations. From this Nici saw the power of information and data and the opportunities AI present to us. Thi…
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AgTalk S4E1 - Commodity Market Update with Robert Herrmann
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Join us for the first episode of season four of the AgTalk podcast as we discuss meat and wool commodity markets with Robert Herrmann. Robert is a founder of Mecardo, a specialist in agricultural advisory with a focus firmly on the financial enhancement of primary production and price risk management. The company was established by Robert in Adelai…
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AgTalk S3E6 - Buy or Lease? The Crucial Question with John Francis
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Join us this week as we chat with Director and consultant at Agrista, John Francis. Agrista is an agricultural consultancy focused on improving farm business performance based in Wagga Wagga in Southern New South Wales. Agrista provides consulting services to corporate and family farms, the rural finance sector, government and industry bodies and t…
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AgTalk S3E5 - Triple Bottom Line with Lucinda Corrigan
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Join us this week as we chat with Rennylea Angus Director, Lucinda Corrigan. Lucinda Corrigan joined Rennylea Angus in 1986. Rennylea Angus is a performance recorded Angus stud of 3.500 head. The ‘head office’ is situated in the South West Slopes of New South Wales between Albury and Holbrook NSW. Her childhood was spent on a large merino sheep pro…
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AgTalk S3E4 - Commodity Market Update with Robert Herrmann
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Join us this week as we discuss commodity markets with Robert Herrmann. Robert is the Managing Director of Mecardo, a specialist in agricultural advisory with a focus firmly on the financial enhancement of primary production and price risk management. The company was established by Robert in Adelaide in 1996 under the Ag Concepts Advisory brand. Wi…
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AgTalk S3E3 - Australian Farm Land Values in 2022 With Elders Analyst Matt Ough
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My guest today Matt Ough who grew up in Edenhope in the West Wimmera region of Victoria. He worked on the family’s sheep farm in his teens learning about animal husbandry and pasture management. When he finished his VCE at Edenhope College, Matt took a gap year working as a teller at a local bank branch. During his gap year, Matt decided to combine…
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AgTalk S3E2 - Success is a Very Poor Teacher with Nigel Kerin
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Nigel Kerin is the founder and director of Kerin Poll Merino Stud. Kerin Poll Merino stud was established in 2009 with the goal to build the traits that made the terminal industry a success into the Merino breed, “fast early growth”, “fertility” and “doing ability”. Nigel chats to us about his key learnings he has had in creating a successful agric…
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AgTalk S3E1 - 2022 Ag Industry Update With NAB Economist Phin Ziebell
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This week we are lucky enough to have Phin Ziebell join us for another AgTalk episode to discuss what may lie ahead for 2022. Phin is NAB's Agribusiness Economist. He is responsible for analysing and reporting on the trends and developments in the agribusiness industry and works closely in conjunction with bankers in NAB’s Agribusiness division. Ph…
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AgTalk S2E14 - What does 2022 have in store for us? Wrapping up 2021 and looking at the year ahead with Robert Herrmann
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Join us this week as we recap 2021 and look at what 2022 may have in store for us with Robert Herrmann. Robert is the Managing Director of Mecardo, a specialist in agricultural advisory with a focus firmly on the financial enhancement of primary production and price risk management. The company was established by Robert in Adelaide in 1996 under th…
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AgTalk S2E13 - 2021 Marcus Oldham Flock Leader Award Winner – Jennifer Medway
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It is our pleasure to welcome Jennifer Medway to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. Jennifer Medway is a fifth generation farmer from Gunning , NSW. Together with her Husband and parents run a 17,000 head self-replacing merino flock. As well as being involved in the day to day running of the farm she has also held a range of roles including Executiv…
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AgTalk S2E12 - Soil Carbon - Sorting the wheat from the chaff with Professor Richard Eckard
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It is our pleasure to welcome Professor Richard Eckard to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. Richard is Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, a research centre addressing the impacts of a changing climate on agriculture. His research focuses on sustainabl…
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AgTalk S2E11 - Culture - The Key to a Successful Farm Business with Danielle England
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It is our pleasure to welcome Danielle England to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. Danielle England is a recognised leader within Australian agriculture based in the South East of South Australia. Over the past 20 years, Danielle has built a strong reputation for delivering agricultural extension and change management programs She works closely wi…
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AgTalk S2E10 - Lets talk about Regenerative Agriculture with Dr Ken Giller
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It is our pleasure to welcome Dr Ken Giller to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. Dr Ken Giller is Professor of Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University. His research focuses on smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular problems of soil fertility with emphasis on the temporal and spatial dynamics of resources with…
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AgTalk S2E9 - Future Leader Series - Making a Career in the Live Export Market with Kari Moffat
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It is our pleasure to welcome Kari Moffat to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. Kari is the first of a series of ex-Marcus Oldham students who I will be profiling on this podcast from time to time as part of the Future Leader Series. The reason I am doing this is that I believe that agriculture today is one of the most exciting industries to be invo…
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AgTalk S2E8 - The Carbon Market and what it means to Australian farmers with Oscar Pearse
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It is a pleasure to welcome Oscar Pearse to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast to talk Carbon Trading. Oscar and Susannah Pearse operate a 2800ha grain and beef farm at Moree, New South Wales. Prior to coming back to the family farm 11 years ago, Oscar worked for a number of agricultural organization in policy and management roles including AgForce Q…
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AgTalk S2E7 - The Story of the Roaring Forties Lamb with James Madden
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It is my pleasure to welcome James Madden, CEO of Flinders + Co to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk Podcast. Flinders + Co is a premium food production and distribution company founded in 2010 by James father David Madden. As the name suggest it is based on Flinders Island which is situated in the Bass Strait just off the northeast coast of Tasmania. As st…
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AgTalk S2E6 - Making Money in the Northern Beef Industry With Ian McLean
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Ian established Bush AgriBusiness in 2009, combining his enthusiasm for agriculture and business. He grew up in the bush, doing primary school through Charleville School of the Air before going to boarding school in Toowoomba. He studied accounting at University before moving to the Northern Territory. In the NT he did station work and worked for a…
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AgTalk S2E5 - Is this as good as it gets for Australian Agriculture? With Phin Ziebell
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This week we are lucky enough to have Phin Ziebell join us for another AgTalk episode to discuss whether it currently is as good as gets for Australian Agriculture. Phin is NAB's Agribusiness Economist. He is responsible for analysing and reporting on the trends and developments in the agribusiness industry and works closely in conjunction with ban…
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AgTalk S2E4 - The business of running a business with Nigel Kerin
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Nigel Kerin is the founder and director of Kerin Poll Merino Stud. Kerin Poll Merino stud was established in 2009 with the goal to build the traits that made the terminal industry a success into the Merino breed, “fast early growth”, “fertility” and “doing ability”. Nigel chats to us about his key learnings he has had in creating a successful agric…
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AgTalk S2E3 - Crops People Money & You with Dr Kate Burke
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Kate Burke founded Think Agri after identifying a need for corporate and institutional investors to have access to astute experience based advice when considering key agri-investment decisions. Knowing the right questions to ask is fundamental to sound decision making. Kate’s 26 years of experience forms a library of critical questions to ask about…
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AgTalk S2E2 - Driving Profitability in the Northern Cropping Zones with Simon Fritsch
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Founder of Agripath, Simon has over 20 years experience in agriculture with his client base encompassing irrigation, dry land farming and grazing operations. He has Southern, Central, and Northern NSW farming systems experience. Simon’s particular strengths have been in financial analysis and planning to deliver profitable outcomes for client busin…
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AgTalk S2E1 - Commodity Market Update with Robert Herrmann
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Join us this week as we discuss meat and wool commodity markets with Robert Herrmann. Robert is the Managing Director of Mecardo, a specialist in agricultural advisory with a focus firmly on the financial enhancement of primary production and price risk management. The company was established by Robert in Adelaide in 1996 under the Ag Concepts Advi…
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AgTalk Episode 32 - Why farmers should be excited about science with Professor Kevin Folta
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Kevin M. Folta is a Professor in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida. His research program examines how light signals are sensed in plants and how different parts of the spectrum can change shelf life and high-value fruit and vegetable traits. His group also uses novel genomics approaches to identify genes related to …
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AgTalk Episode 31 - What Drives Farmland Values? With Rural Bank Analyst Matt Ough
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My guest today Matt Ough who grew up in Edenhope in the West Wimmera region of Victoria. He worked on the family’s sheep farm in his teens learning about animal husbandry and pasture management. When he finished his VCE at Edenhope College, Matt took a gap year working as a teller at a local bank branch. During his gap year, Matt decided to combine…
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AgTalk Episode 30 - Profit Drivers in the Dairy Industry with Neil Lane
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One of the biggest lesson I leant when working as a banker was that I can learn hell of a lot about my own farm performance by looking outside the industry I grew up in. I was very fortunate as a young bank manager to be exposed to the dairy industry when I was stationed at Warrnambool in South-West Victoria. The lessons I learnt about grazing mana…
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AgTalk Episode 29 - Food 5.0 - The future of Agriculture with Robert Saik
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ROBERT SAIK has had forty years of experience as a Professional Agrologist, entrepreneur and an international consultant who's worked with a wide variety of agriculturalists from Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture to Bill Gates on implementation of ag tech to help developing economies. Over his life he has founded over 15 companies in the areas of F…
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AgTalk Episode 28 - Grain market update - What's happening and where is it heading? With Brett Stevenson
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Join us this week as we check in with the Founder and Managing Director of Market Check, Brett Stevenson, for a grain market update. Brett Stevenson, comes from a pioneer farming family in the Central West of NSW, founded AgRisk Management Pty to provide a range of grain marketing and risk management services to Australian grain growers. Brett brou…
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AgTalk Episode 27 - The Modern Merino and Sustainability; a farmers view with Andrew Bouffler
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My guest this week is someone who I probably first bumped into at the back bar of the Tatts Hotel in Armidale over 30 years ago. At that stage we where both on a road to completing a Bachelor of Ag Economics from the University of New England Andrew Bouffler hails from Lockhart in Southern NSW, 70kms West of the town Wagga Wagga in the State of NSW…
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AgTalk Episode 25 - Budget, Pandemic and Recession - What does it mean for Ag? With Phin Ziebell
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Nearly six months ago to the day, David Cornish sat down with NAB Agribusiness Economist, Phin Ziebell, to discuss what current world events meant for farmers and how it may impact them for our first episode of AgTalk. With the recent release of the Australian budget, the first recession in close to three decades and the worldwide pandemic still ca…
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Episode 24 - How sustainable are Australian cropping systems? With Professor Tim Reeves
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Professor Reeves is a distinguished international leader in agricultural research, development and extension. He was a pioneer of no-till and sustainable agriculture at the Rutherglen Research Institute in north-eastern Victoria and has held a high number of senior international roles including as Director General of the International Maize and Whe…
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AgTalk Episode 23 - Asking the Right Questions with Kate Burke
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Kate Burke is a highly experienced independent farm consultant with a PhD in agronomy. Kate has also spent time in the corporate sector as commercial manager of one of the largest grain producers in Australia and knows what it takes to run a profitable farm business. She has over thirty years’ experience in the farming sector. This includes Researc…
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AgTalk Episode 22 - Leadership, vision and making a difference with NFF President Fiona Simson
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In 2015 Fiona Simson became the first female president of the Australia’s peak farmer group. Fiona hails from a farming operation near Gunnedah on NSW’s Liverpool Plains, running a farming enterprise with her husband Ed and family including broad acre farming as well as breeding commercial poll Hereford cattle. 2019 was not an easy year for farmers…
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AgTalk Episode 21 - Collaborative Farming with John Gladigau
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It was, I think, 2007 when on a typically cold Ballarat day I had the pleasure of sitting down with John Gladigau for a coffee and chat about corporate investing in agriculture. John was in the process of completing his Nuffield scholarship looking into the concept of collaborative farming.It wasn’t long till John and his good mate, Robin Schaefer …
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AgTalk Episode 20 - Why do farmers need to care about social license With Robbie Sefton
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This week I had the pleasure of Robbie Sefton joining me on AgTalk. Robbie is the founder and managing director of Seftons, a communication agency providing services in corporate affairs, government and media relations, strategic communications and marketing, digital and social media, event management, facilitation and community consultation progra…
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AgTalk Episode 19 - Dealing with Banks with Ian Robinson
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Today we are joined by Ian Robinson, director and co-founder of Robinson and Sewell partners. Ian grew up on a 28,000 acre sheep station near Hay running 15,000 merino sheep and 1,000 acres of irrigated cereal and oil-seed cropping. Ian has had over 15 years of banking experience across a broad range of disciplines including business banking at a r…
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AgTalk Episode 18 - Livestock production and Greenhouse gases - The Facts with Dr Frank Mitloehner
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In this weeks episode we speak with Dr Frank Mitloehner Dr. Frank Mitloehner is a professor and air quality specialist in cooperative extension in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis. As such, he shares his knowledge and research, both domestically and abroad, with students, scientists, farmers and ranchers, poli…
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AgTalk Episode 17 - Communication and Science - The keys to successful farming with Jason Trompf
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It is my pleasure today to introduce to you Jason Trompf. Jason is the inaugural winner of the Marcus Oldham Flock Leader award, part of the Lambition awards that were kick of this year Jason grew up on sheep properties and developed from an early age a passion of the Sheep Industry. I first ran into Jason many years ago when he was completing his …
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AgTalk Episode 16 - Leadership lessons from the Cotton Industry
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My guest speaker this week has had a very long and illustrious career in agriculture. Mike's ag management journey started out in Narrabri NSW where for thirty years He managed a cotton operation. In that time he was instrumental in the development of the Cotton industry Best management Practice guide. The Cotton Industry Best Management practice p…
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AgTalk - Decision Making with the Rule of Thumbs with guest Zoe Creelman
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One of the main themes running through this podcast series is the concept around good decision making. In this podcast episode, I want to explore decision making in a little bit more depth. To help me with this I am joined by Zoe Creelman Zoe's a freelancing agriculturalist based in south west Victoria. She cut her teeth with Southern Farming Syste…
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AgTalk - The Leadership Challenge with Debbie Nicol
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The issue of leadership is an ever-increasing topic of discussion around the world especially in these times of covid. You often here someone say ‘All we need is better leadership and we wouldn’t be in this situation’. But what is leadership? It’s a question that has interested me for a long time. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to be a parti…
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AgTalk - Decision Making in the Southern Cropping System
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Welcome to the Marcus Oldham AgTalk podcast. My guest this week is Dr Harm Van Rees. In the early 1990s Harm began consulting to growers across the Victorian Wimmera and Mallee. He became well known and highly regarded throughout the farming industry for his instrumental roles in the MEYCheck (Maximum Economic Yield) and Top Crop programs which wer…
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AgTalk - Commodity Markets - Meat and Wool Part 4
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Join us this week as we discuss meat and wool commodity markets with Robert Herrmann . Robert is the Managing Director of Mecardo, a specialist in agricultural advisory with a focus firmly on the financial enhancement of primary production and price risk management.
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AgTalk - Commodity Markets - Meat and Wool Part 3
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Join us this week as we discuss meat and wool commodity markets with Robert Herrmann . Robert is the Managing Director of Mecardo, a specialist in agricultural advisory with a focus firmly on the financial enhancement of primary production and price risk management. The company was established by Robert in Adelaide in 1996 under the Ag Concepts Adv…
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AgTalk - Commodity Pricing - Grain and Oil Seeds Part 2
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Join us this week as we discuss commodity price grain and oil seed forecasting with the Founder and Managing Director of Market Check, Brett Stevenson. Brett Stevenson, comes from a pioneer farming family in the Central West of NSW, founded AgRisk Management Pty to provide a range of grain marketing and risk management services to Australian grain …
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AgTalk - Commodity Pricing - Grains Part 1
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Join us this week as we discuss commodity price forecasting with the Founder and Managing Director of Market Check, Brett Stevenson. Brett Stevenson, comes from a pioneer farming family in the Central West of NSW, founded AgRisk Management Pty to provide a range of grain marketing and risk management services to Australian grain growers. Brett brou…
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AgTalk - Succession Planning Part 3.2 - Smart Group Properties
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Succession planing in Agriculture often can be a highly emotive issue and one that can have a significant impact on the ongoing success of a family farming operation. This week's podcast is final episode in a series that has looked closely at this issue and ways we can best manage the process to maximise chances of a successful outcome.…
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AgTalk - Succession Planning Part 3.1 - Smart Group Properties
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Succession planing in Agriculture often can be a highly emotive issue and one that can have a significant impact on the ongoing success of a family farming operation. This week's podcast is part three of a series that looks closely at this issue and ways that we can best manage the process to maximises our chance of a successful outcome.…
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