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The Weekly Grill

The Weekly Grill is Beef Central"s podcast with host, Kerry Lonergan. Each week Kerry chats with a beef industry mover and shaker - turning up the heat and asking questions about the burning issues and topics that impact the beef sector.

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29:27

S5 Ep44: Newly appointed NFF President, Hamish Macintyre

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2025/12/12

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill - our final episode for 2025 - host Kerry Lonergan sits down with newly elected president of the National Farmers Federation, Hamish Macintyre.In this wide ranging discussion Kerry quizzes new president about: The immediate priorities for the NFF Potential NFF constitutional changes Climate and emissions and the NFF’s environmental arrangements with the Greens The global supply chain The availability and affordability of Australian diesel

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23:40

S5 Ep43: Derrell Peel, US Livestock Economist

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2025/12/05

Respected US meat and livestock economist Derrell Peel chews the fat this week with Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan.Prof Peel, extension specialist for livestock marketing at Oklahoma State University, works in all areas of US livestock production economics and marketing for all beef cattle production sectors. Additionally he works on US meat demand and meat supply chain issues, beef product marketing and international cattle and beef trade. Among other topics, the pair discuss: US

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24:53

S5 Ep42: Introducing Howdy - 'Tinder for the bush',...

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2025/11/28

In this week’s episode of the Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Mia Ryan, founder of the dating App, Howdy – think Tinder for the bush.From her family farm in the NSW Hunter Valley, Mia recognised an opening to help bush people make a romantic connection, with more than 20,000 downloads among bush folk using the App in their search for love. And there’s been plenty of success stories along the way, with engagements, marriages and little ones already on the ground. Howdy

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27:07

S5 Ep41: End of year Market Wrap with Chris Howie and...

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2025/11/21

In this week's episode of the Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Matt Dalgliesh and Chris Howie to dissect what’s been a ‘goldilocks year’ for the red meat industry.Reviewing some of the year's major headlines, the trio discuss: The lamb market’s spring flush Lamb fetching upwards of $330 a kilo Australia's highest volumes of processed beef for 47 years Did Trump’s yo-yo approach to tariffs have any impact? Indonesia’s declining herd numbers. What does this mean for the rest of

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16:47

S5 Ep40: Jack Sykes, AgriDrone

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2025/11/13

The use of drones on rural properties has grown dramatically over the past few years. Drones are now routinely being used for monitoring, mapping, spraying... and in some situations - mustering! This week Kerry Lonergan caught up with one of the industry's early adopters, Jack Sykes, cp-principal of AgriDrone, to discuss the rise of the drone in agricultural situations, and how they're changing the way people farm.The Weekly Grill is brought to listeners by Rhinogard and Bovi-Shield MH-One - the

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26:12

S5 Ep39: Sam Burke, MLA Corporate Executive Chef

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2025/11/07

On the eve of next week’s Cattle Australia seminar and AGM in Dalby, MLA’s executive chef and Product Business Development Manager Sam Burke chews the fat with The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan.The pair discuss consumer trends during the current cycle of rising beef prices, how food service operators are adjusting their businesses to remain competitive, the role value-adding is playing in delivering beef products with greater convenience and time saving, and other issues. Industry stakeholders

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25:41

S5 Ep38: Global red meat in pivotal moment - analyst...

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2025/10/31

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with independent red meat and livestock analyst Simon Quilty, covering the opportunities ahead for Australian beef and lamb in a global market facing shortages, tariff challenges, and trade access issues for the next year or two.Barring weather setbacks or some form of exotic disease incursion, it's hard not to be bullish about red meat export prospects for 2026 and 2027, Mr Quilty suggests. The Weekly Grill

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25:09

S5 Ep37: Red meat wholesaler David McNally

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2025/10/24

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with red meat wholesaling identity David McNally, head of Australian Wholesale Meats.Since 2001 AWM has grown to become one of the largest domestic beef wholesalers in the country, with offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne supplying food service customers across the restaurant, pubs and clubs sector, retail butchers, supermarkets and hospitality venues across the nation. The pair discuss the level of demand for

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36:45

S5 Ep36: Remembering BTEC - Australia's herculean...

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2025/10/17

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Longergan catches up with two veterans who took part in Australia's incredible feat in the 1970s-80s era in eradicating Brucellosis and Tuberculosis from the national beef herd.Ron Granville was Queensland's chief veterinary officer during the BTEC era, and Brian Radunz was a senior cattle vet in the Northern Territory. The pair talk about the herculean task of eliminating the diseases, the challenges faced, and the ultimate success of the

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19:20

S5 Ep35: Stephanie Frankham, Young Organic Industry...

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2025/10/10

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill, host Kerry Longergan catches up with newly crowned Young Organic Champion of the Year, Stephanie Frankham. Stephanie has been instrumental in developing the organic red meat sector, transitioning more than 50,000 cattle to organic production, and pioneering sustainability initiatives, including emissions reduction strategies for producers. The Weekly Grill is brought to listeners by Rhinogard and Bovi-Shield MH-One - the One Shot, One Spray, One Time

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32:32

S5 Ep34: Patrick Hutchinson, Australian Beef...

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2025/10/03

This week, podcast host Kerry Lonergan dials in Patrick Hutchinson, Chair of the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework.The pair discuss the hot topics of environmental stewardship, animal welfare and economic resilience. Sector by sector, how is the industry performing in the sustainability space, and how best to achieve our future sustainability targets? A lot has already been achieved and a lot of money invested (industry funds, government contributions and third party investors) so what are

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23:37

S5 Ep33: The live cattle export outlook, with...

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2025/09/26

This week, podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up with Livecorp CEO, Wayne Collier. The pair's wide-ranging discussion covers:Indonesian, Vietnamese and Middle Eastern markets, and how they are performing The current mood in Western Australia Crewing live export ships - staffing shortages/who foots the bill? The success of shipboard management and improvements of mortality numbers Biosecurity issues The key issues addressed at "Live Exchange” - the upcoming Trade Conference in Perth ... and

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24:23

S5 Ep32: Embracing AI & Machine Learning technologies...

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2025/09/19

Artificial intelligence is now starting to creep into the Australian red meat supply chain, whether it is accurately counting sheep or cattle off a truck into a meatworks holding yard, or picking the shape of tri-tips from a range of primals passing down a processing conveyor belt and packing them in a carton.In today’s Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with Dr Tom Lee from the University of Technology, Sydney. Tom classifies himself as a ‘middle man’ between AI technology

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26:37

S5 Ep31: September market wrap with Chris Howie and...

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2025/09/12

With sweeping tariff changes and drastically declining beef production in the US, global instability in the Middle East and Ukraine, lingering effects of drought in southern Australia, there was a lot to talk about in the latest Weekly Grill markets update podcast with regular commentators Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish.In today’s episode Kerry Lonergan catches up with the pair on cattle price trends and what’s driving them, this year’s extraordinary number of sale yard cattle transactions,

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26:56

S5 Ep30: Farmers Fighting Fund chair, Hugh Nivison

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2025/09/05

In the 1980s, farmers were concerned that union intransigence and rigidity, as exemplified by the Mudginberri dispute, threatened the future of Australian agriculture and industry productivity in general.Mudgenberri presented the opportunity for the NFF, with AFFF support, to challenge and defeat the old, inward-looking standards that had long passed their used-by date. Farmers ‘put their hands in their pockets’ for the cause, raising millions of dollars. Half the money raised was donated by

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S5 Ep29: Roger Fletcher, the bush billionaire

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2025/08/28

In this week's episode of The Weekly Grill, podcast host Kerry Lonergan catches up Roger Fletcher, the man behind Australia's most integrated sheep meat processor, Fletcher International.In a wide ranging conversation, the pair discuss Roger's humble beginnings droving sheep around Glen Innes, and the opportunities he seized along the way to help build his $1.4b empire. Other topics of conversation include: Why he never got into cattle Expanding interests in Western Australia Exclusion

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S5 Ep28: What's driving the record high prices for lamb?

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2025/08/22

With frenched cutlets now selling in some metro butcheries for $95/kg. and even the humble shank retailing in supermarkets for the equivalent of $7.50 each, domestic lamb prices are today testing the boundaries of what the market ever thought possible.But even at those ticket prices, independent retailers say there is no margin in lamb at current wholesale levels, two leading independent butchers tell Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan in today’s episode. Successful Brisbane butcher Tim

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33:30

S5 Ep27: Three generations of Harts share the...

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2025/08/15

Some salient lessons in succession planning were aired during last Friday’s annual Rural Press Cub breakfast held as part of the Brisbane Ekka, where three generations of the Hart family from Stockyard Beef shared the stage in front of an audience of 700.Founder Robin Hart, his son Lachie and granddaughter Ali later sat down with Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan to talk about multi-generational farm sector businesses and how they have made it work. Key to the narrative was the deliberate steps

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24:17

S5 Ep26: Labour challenges in regional and rural...

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2025/08/08

In this weeks' podcast episode, host Kerry Lonergan chats with recruitment and labour specialist Tom Reardon, on the ongoing labour challenges in regional and rural Australia.Two years ago in a previous conversation, Mr Reardon, the head of labour resourcing firm PeopleIn, described the labour situation in rural Australia was as bad as he had ever seen it. What's happened since? PeopleIn currently has around 2000 job vacancies on its books across rural and regional areas of the country. The

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26:27

S5 Ep25: Mid year property market trends, with LAWD's...

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2025/08/01

In this weeks' podcast episode, host Kerry Lonergan chats with LAWD's gregarious property marketing identity, Danny Thomas.Among other topics, the pair discuss: The federal super tax and its' impacts on rural properties SMSF rules and listings of rural properties Interest in Australia’s ag properties from US Canadian super funds China - are they turning their attention to South America? Vietnamese / Malaysian / Japanese investment in Australia Carbon Farming… is it influencing

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