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Market Morsel - A conversation about commodities.

Just the two of us. Matt and Andrew have a conversation about livestock, grain and fertilizer pricing. Along with a few other tangents. 

Keeping it rural

We have a chat with Dimity Smith, of Gro Events and Gro Rural. 
As always we cover a huge range of topics; should events be rural or in cities, finding rural talent for contracts, running an EP3 commodities course in New Caledonia, Barnaby Joyce on a night out and a whole lot more. 

Agriculture for all

We have a chat with Madeleine Stuchbery, a journalist with the Weekly Times. We chat about our recent article about the inclusion of women on agricultural boards. 
In this chat we delve into diversity, inclusion, access to services in regions, paying for content and a whole lot more.  
You can read her article by clicking here

The Queen of Sheepa

On this podcast, we have Jo Hall, CEO of Wool Producers Australia (WPA). Jo represents the interests of wool growers across the country. She discusses why WPA have removed support for the governments plan to mandate EID tags in sheep, their views on the new biosecurity levy and the prospect of processing more wool within Australia rather than sending it all to China. 

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

We have David Jochinke, the current president of the NFF and the immediate previous VFF president onto the podcast for a chat after 3 months in the NFF president role. In this podcast, we discuss various topics, including government policy, the MV Bahijah in Freo, the ban on utes and a lot more. 
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This is a conversation starter

Mental wellness is a huge issue in regional areas, and one that we need to more open about and remove the stigma.
We have a chat with Jason Banks, the CO-Ceo of TIACS aka This is a conversation starter. This organisation, set up by the founders of Trade Mutt (See here), is a counselling service for blue-collar workers - truckies, tradies and farmers. 
This service provides eight free counselling sessions for those who need to get on top of their mental fitness. The conversations was very enlightening. 
If you want someone to chat to, call or SMS 0488846988 or visit tiacs.org

Skyes the limit in agtech.

We have a chat with Skye Raward, co-founder of Farmers2Founders, a program to assist Australian food producers in collaborating with tech developers. 
In this discussion, we cover topics from getting investment to women in tech. As a bonus, a list of Scottish inventions is provided. 

The ag minister from the shadows.

We had a chat with shadow agricultural minister David Littleproud about a wide variety of topics and how he thinks the current government is performing.

Biosecurity - a new levy or a tax?

We have a chat with Colin Bettles, CEO of Grain Producers Australia. Last week, a huge section of agricultural representatives sent a letter to the government advocating for the removal of the new biosecurity levy. 
In this chat, we discuss this, along with the cost of living pressures for everyday Australians - specifically beer!

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

We have a chat with Wyn Snyman, the new CEO of Auctionsplus. We chat about the COVID impact on online livestock auctions, new competitors in the space, the Auctionsplus foray into media and a whole lot more. 
*Wyn is pronounced vein