AgWatchers

AgWatchers

The AgWatchers podcast contains a mixture of interviews showcasing those involved in the agricultural supply chain, along with agricultural commodity market updates from the hosts Andrew Whitelaw and Matt Dalgleish. Expect serious discussions conducted in a light hearted manner.

Episodes

August 3, 2025 80 mins

As the final in our series talking with presenters/panellists from the Future Ag Expo, we have John Bennett on for a chat. A great discussion where we talk about how to fight drought, the protest in Victoria and a whole lot more. 

Remember to register for the future ag expo by clicking here

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In the lead-up to the future ag expo, we have a chat with Georgia Stormont. Georgia is a sales coach, and provides advice to companies on how to approach their relationships with farmers.  In this podcast we talk about personalities, we do a roll play, and a whole lot more. 

Make sure to get organised for the future ag expo by clicking here

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July 25, 2025 58 mins

AgWatchers and Episode 3 have been at the forefront of AI for years, as you all know. It turns out that you can do more than make images from it. We talk to Future Ag Expo presenter Lachie Vogt, who is the founder of Algorithm, an AI developer for agriculture. As usual we talk about a range of topics, both serious and (mostly) not so serious. We also bring back our old intro music after requests from multiple listeners who missed ...

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July 20, 2025 54 mins

We have a chat with Joshua Gilbert. Joshua has recently penned a book called Australia's Agricultural Identity, and is presenting at the Future Ag Expo on the 6th to 8th of August.  This podcast covered a wide range of topics related to indigenous inclusion in Australian agriculture. 

 

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We have a chat with Natalie Green, who is organising the future ag expo in Melbourne from the 6th to 8th of August. This event is a trade show and conference, where AgWatchers will be the MCs for the three days. 

On this podcast, we have a frank and honest chat about what went wrong and right last year, and what the plans are for this year. Many conferences in Australia are pretty expensive, this has a lot of good speakers, and onl...

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We had a chat with Mick Crowley, the CEO of Meat and Livestock Australia. We chat about dropping the 2030 carbon neutrality plan, the five year plan, using tik tok and a whole range of other topics. 

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July 3, 2025 60 mins

Episode 300! On this podcast, like episodes 100 and 200, we have a professional turn the tables and take over our podcast. 

We have Warwick Long, presenter of the Victorian Country Hour, on to chat with us. We also have a big announcement at the end of the podcast. 

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Our fortnightly market update, supported by SproutAg.  In this podcast we chat about livestock pricing, and the impact of the Iran/Israel conflict on grain and fert markets. 

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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Our fortnightly market update, supported by SproutAg.  In this podcast, we update on the my families visit from Scotland (and my aunts trashy magazines), wheat doldrums, Iran and Israel conflict, record beef exports and record low live sheep exports. 

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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June 2, 2025 58 mins

On this podcast, we have a chat with Brad Perry, the CEO of Grain Producers South Australia. We chat with Brad just after he has toured South Australia with the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Julie Collins. We discuss this visit, along with topics such as the drought, available support, the reclassification of farming land, and a range of other issues. 

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Our fortnightly market update, supported by SproutAg.  In this podcast, we update on the tariff roundabout, record-high lamb prices, and the lack of a drought premium.

 

We also talk about our new grain trading simulator, which can be found here You can visit the SproutAg website by clicking here

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May 26, 2025 61 mins

In this podcast, we have Brad Hogg, a former professional cricketer originally hailing from Narrogin in WA and Rachael Oxborrrow an executive officer from Grain Producers Austalia. 

Brad has been on the podcast in the past, chatting about his advocacy and discussing mental health in rural areas. On this podcast, he is here with Rachael to launch their new podcast series, the 'Mates Mental Health Toolbox'. This series will delve int...

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On today's podcast, we chat with Dale Grey. Dale works with Agriculture Victoria and is our go-to when it comes to understanding weather and climate in an engaging and entertaining manner. 

This podcast focuses on what is causing Victoria and South Australia to be so dry. We recommend you get onto his newsletters and YouTube channel, The Fast Break and The Very Fast Break (click here).

 

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In this podcast, we have Troy Constance, the CEO of Sprout Ag, a finance brokerage firm. Troy is a fountain of knowledge on how financing and refinancing. So we picked his brains on financing, succession planning, interest rates and the planned unrealised capital gains and how it could impact farms. 

Andrew also talks about his experience of picking up hitchhikers on the weekend.

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We have renamed our fortnightly market update to make it sound cooler than it is. It is now AgWatchersX (Extra). This fortnightly update will update you on what is happening in the ag markets, focusing on Australia. 

This week, we will discuss urea, wheat, cattle, sheep, and the Chinese/USA negotiations. 

AgWatchers thank our supporter SproutAg, for helping make this podcast happen. Visit their website at Sproutag.com.au

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In this podcast, we have Natalie Collard from Farmers for Climate Action. In this podcast, we have a chat about the election results, their priorities for the government, electric hilux, batteries on farm, favourite movies, the upcoming FCA conference and a whole lot more. 

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April 30, 2025 67 mins

In this sobering episode, we invited back a previous guest, episode 106, John Blackburn AO. John, a former air vice-marshal and Deputy Chief of the RAAF. 

These are turbulent times, and we have a chat about our defence, fuel supply chain and national food security. 

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In conjunction with AuctionsPlus, AgWatchers provides a fortnightly update on the drivers of the main agricultural markets in Australia.

This podcast is a quick way to find out about the big market moves in agriculture, from an independent point of view. AgWatchers are the only independent agricultural market analysts covering the Australian market. 

To make this podcast possible, our friends at AuctionsPlus are powering this segme...

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April 22, 2025 76 mins

We have a chat with Kate Burke, who has been running her consultancy Think Agri for ten years. In this podcast, we talk about a range of topics including the current drought conditions in parts of the country. 

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We invited Andrew Weidemann AM and Colin Bettles of Grain Producers Australia onto the podcast to talk about what their election priorities. They tell us what they would like to see the government do to assist Australian grain farmers. 

In addition we also talked about autonomous machinery and what GPA were doing in this space.  GPA are running a webinar next week on how to navigate a minority government. You can register by click...

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