Episodes

  • When you Whish upon a senator.
    Nov 4 2025

    The AgWatchers podcast is an open platform for different views, and we have had politicians from most of the major parties. This week, we have Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, the Greens senator for Tasmania. Peter holds the Greens portfolio for agriculture.

    In this podcast, we discuss competition in agriculture, ACCC changes, net zero, his favourite politicians, and a range of other topics.

    Peter comes from a farming background and has qualifications in Economics and a career in banking and finance.

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    57 mins
  • AgWatchersX EP9: Trump-XI.
    Oct 30 2025

    Our fortnightly market update. We talk about grains, cattle, sheep and wool - and the new Trump deal.

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    11 mins
  • AgWatchersX EP8: Farmers aid, cattle exports, grains holding
    Oct 7 2025

    Our fortnightly market update, brought to you by Sproutag. We talk about the state of the grain markets, the potential for aid for US farmers, beef and sheep exports.

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    14 mins
  • The pests invading Australia
    Oct 2 2025

    In this podcast, we have Jack Gough, the CEO of the Invasive Species Council. We learnt a lot from this podcast about the various species invading Australia, how to control them, and the strength of the hunting lobby.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • AgWatchersX EP7: Biofuels bonanza (for grain and livestock), beef/sheep prices rocketing higher
    Sep 19 2025

    Our fortnightly market update. We talk on this podcast about the livestock industry trending higher, the sheep ships no longer coming and the impact of the new biofuels announcement from Albo on the grain and livestock sectors.

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    17 mins
  • Who represents farmers in Parliament?
    Sep 17 2025

    We had a chat with Tyson Cattle, who runs his own consultancy (Salmon Haven), but for years has been behind the scenes in the agripolitical space.

    Tyson is undertaking a Nuffield project, which aims to review advocacy strategies in the agricultural industry. Tyson is independent, like EP3, and provides us with a good update on what is happening, where we are excelling, and where we are falling short as an industry.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • AgWatchersX EP6: Why are grain prices low, grain fed beef on the rise
    Aug 29 2025

    Our fortnightly market update, supported by SproutAg.

    You can also visit our new grain trading simulator, which can be found here

    You can visit the SproutAg website by clicking here

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    21 mins
  • Chief of farming, Mushroom farming and beef wellingtons
    Aug 21 2025

    We have a chat with Georgia Beattie, Australia's largest organic mushroom farmer. We talk about a range of topics from whether the government should have a Chief Farmer, growing mushrooms and the impact of the beef wellington trial on the mushroom sector.

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    1 hr and 4 mins