What's Your Beef Beef Australia

The Ken Coombe Tech Yards at Beef24 was a hive of activity, cementing itself as one of the centrepieces of the Beef Australia experience. Carbon was a hot topic with many providers, experts, entrepreneurs and educators on hand to debunk myths and help producers understand what’s happening in the industry. Jayne Cuddihy presented a What’s Your Beef podcast conversation live on the Meat Street stage to summarise some of the issues with Shane Charles, Chief Executive Officer, Upscale Carbon, Georgie Whalley, solicitor, Moin Morris and Schaeffer and Eric Barker, a journalist with Beef Central.

What’s Your Beef host Jayne Cuddihy caught up with Salvo Vitelli (Manager at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Queensland), Associate Professor Amy Cosby (Senior Research Fellow in Agri-tech Education and Extension at CQUniversity), and Kylie Hopkins (Beef Research and Extension at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland) at Beef2024 in a live interview. Together, they explore how government and educational institutions are prioritising the promotion of agricultural careers for the future and share their personal journeys and interests in the agriculture industry. Tune into the latest episode now to find out more!

Imagine being able to know exactly how long a particular paddock will carry a particular number of cattle for a given amount of time? It’s one of the projects by the Queensland Government dealing with climate resilience.

In this episode we’ll hear from some of the scientists involved in the groundbreaking, collaborative study including Giselle Whish, Chris Holloway, Jason Bartnetson and Raj Hemant Pandeya.

You’ll also meet Geoff Bahnisch the head of the farm business resilience program working right across ag sector to ensure producers are sustainable no matter what the weather. As part of the Queensland Government’s commitment to the State’s beef industry, chief lender for the Queensland Rural Industry and Development Authority or QRIDA, Brooke Irwin will talk about the $750 million approved in First Start and Sustainability Loans to help aspiring producers enter the beef industry and for existing producers to invest in sustainable and profitable production practices.

For more information on any of the projects, research or programs they mentioned- visit the Queensland Gov website.

If there’s one thing for certain, the consumption of beef worldwide is on the rise, and we’re only going to need more of it. So with droughts plaguing the United States and Australians stretched across a number of markets- where is it going to come from? In this episode we’re hearing from Olivia Agar who is Nutrien Ag’s market insights lead and she says there’s some big opportunities for Australia’s export markets.

For three generations, the Teys family have been cornerstones of the Australian beef industry. Starting with a single butcher shop in 1946, the four Teys brothers steadily made their mark on the broader industry by first establishing more shops, then a processing plant and now being supplied by 7000 producers and exporting to 60 countries. At the heart of their operation is a commitment to their customers demonstrated by one of their flagship programs, Grasslands. The Grasslands product was established for customers who preferred a 100% grass fed beef product. In this episode of What’s Your Beef we will hear from Hannah Brodie in Teys’ livestock strategic operations and Ethan Mooney group livestock support.

Andrew Coppin is hardly a stranger to the Australian entrepreneurial sector; his name is synonymous with agri-tech for years. Farmbot, a business he co-founded with Craig Hendricks, is now expanding into the American market. With it comes an exciting new era and plenty of challenges. In this episode of What's Your Beef, Andrew opens up about what drives him, why Sunday nights are no longer sacred, how he's had a baptism of fire into the American cowboy culture, and what to expect from the team when they hit Rockhampton as part of Beef2024.