Podcast Episodes

Individual ewe performance and the future of sheep productivity with Tara Dwyer

Season 2025 Episode 262

What limits ewe productivity in current sheep systems?

Our guest this week, Tara Dwyer is breeding manager at Headwaters Genetics and a farm manager within the Lone Star Farms group. Her work covers s…

Published on 1 day, 3 hours ago

Results from the 'Genetics of foot health in Merinos' project with Gus Rose

Season 2025 Episode 261

Gus Rose shares the recent results from the 'Genetics of foot health in Merinos' project, which is looking at footrot and foot structure in sheep in Australia. Gus shares what the data shows on the h…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Proactive sheep management strategies with Tim Gole

Season 2025 Episode 260

On this week's episode, Tim Gole shares how sheep farmers can increase their profits by shifting from responding to problems to preventing them in the first place.

Tim runs ForFlocksSake, a vet-based …

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

How Do You Breed Short-Tailed Sheep? with Marnie Hodge

Season 2025 Episode 259

What do the genetics of tail length and the genetics of semen quality have in common? Not much, except that our guest, Marnie Hodge, Sheep Genetics Senior Development Officer, has researched them bot…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Growing More Grass and Turning It Into Growth with Bevan Ravenhill

Season 2025 Episode 258

How simple rotations and tight feed management lift whole farm performance.

Mark chats with Bevan Ravenhill, WA General Manager for Lawson Angus  WA, to talk about what really drives a productive graz…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

How to Start a Cattle Business with Summit Livestock

Season 2025 Episode 257

Ever wondered what it takes to build a succesfull seedstock buisness from the ground up? Well, this is the podcast for you. 

This week, Mark chats with Jasmine and Hayden Green, owners of Summit Lives…

Published on 1 month ago

Financial skills for more profitable farming with David Egerton-Warburton

Season 2025 Episode 256

Accounting may not be every farmer’s favourite topic, but it is one of the most powerful tools on the farm. This week’s Head Shepherd guest, David Egerton-Warburton, explains why.

Raised on a sixth-ge…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Trust and Farm Advice with Dr Ruth Nettle

Season 2025 Episode 255

What makes farmers change? And what holds them back? Our guest this week, Dr Ruth Nettle, has spent 25 years studying just that. Ruth has spent her career looking into how people in agriculture learn…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Understanding IMF, Shear Force and Marbling with Dr Peter McGilchrist

Season 2025 Episode 254

Want to know more about meat-eating quality traits like IMF, shear force and marbling? Our guest this week, Dr Peter McGilchrist, is a leading meat scientist and professor at the University of New En…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

neXtPredict: Breeding Values Made Easy for Commercial Sheep Producers

Season 2025 Episode 253

Ever wished you could get breeding values on your commercial Merinos without having to record weights, dates or pedigrees?

This week, we’re launching neXtPredict, our brand new genomic tool that lets …

Published on 2 months ago