Shared Ag Solutions by BCG
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -This show is for those curious to hear the latest news and agricultural research and how to apply it on-farm to improve profitability, decision making, safety, community development and overall wellbeing. BCG Podcast is focused on the listener's needs with BCG staff and renowned agricultural scientists unpacking growers' agronomic and business challenges for the fortnight.
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Planning for Profit: Soil health with Dr Rob Norton
February 28, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MB“One of the issues with P allocation on, say, lentils or chickpeas is that they're not that responsive in terms of yield, but they do respond, in terms of nitrogen fixation. So phosphorus will stimulate growth, which stimulates nitrogen fixation. So your pulses, and even some of the medic pastures and vetch, for example, they're usually the first things we cut phosphorus off, in our crop budget. But in fact, what happens is, by doing that, you actually reduce some of the nitrogen input from ...
Planning for Profit: Spot spraying AI technology with Stephen Richards
February 21, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB“…he's got individual nozzle controls, so Hawkeye, he's only spot spraying. That's all he uses the machine for. He's got a few sprayers. This is just his spot sprayer and he thinks that there is no other way to spray. He said he kicks back, watching the footy on his iPad. He's got his height controller controlling the boom. He's got his weed detect turning on and spot spraying his weeds and that's probably the best case scenario.” In the seventh episode of our eight-part Planning for Profit...
Planning for Profit: Nitrogen planning with Professor James Hunt
February 14, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MB“So say 2022, where we had good starting soil water, a very good timing of the break, a very positive forecast, then Yield Profit was really gung-ho and put on by, I think it was 150 kilograms of nitrogen Curyo, which is, well, very few farmers are going to do that commercially, that's over 300 kilo's per hectare of urea, whereas the nitrogen bank treatment tends to only put on about 60, or thereabouts, kilograms per hectare of nitrogen, so about 130 kilos of urea, pretty much year in, year ...
Planning for Profit: Agronomic planning with Rik Maatman
January 31, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB“So once you've had a reasonable population that's got through, it's just taken moisture off the predominant crop, which in this case, we're talking about wheat, and that yield loss, let's call it, uh, 400 kilos at a, you know, 300 gross value per ton. There's a big input there that they could have factored in. He's talking 120 gross return for a 30 input. It's just such a smart move. And there was a reason why we put it in the plan.” In the fifth episode of our eight-part Planning for Prof...
Planning for Profit: Drought proofing with Fiona Best
January 17, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes - 22 MB“It's not something that you implement and then you're finished with. You have to keep thinking about it… keep talking about it. It's a marathon, not a sprint, and you probably are going to have to change the tactics along the way. It's about that re-evaluation process,” - BCG CEO Fiona Best. In the fourth episode of our eight-part Planning for Profit series we caught up with BCG's Fiona Best to learn how we can better prepare our farm business (and ourselves) for the next inevitable drough...
Planning for Profit and worklife balance with Carmen Quade
January 03, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB“In terms of profitability and working more hours to make more profit. The first thing I tell people is at what point do you reach maximum? You max out pretty quickly because you can only work a certain number of days in a row at a certain number of hours before you just collapse from physical exhaustion. So you reach maximum pretty quickly. Now, if you're talking about making good decisions, you don't max out. And that essentially is where you make more money.” Is there such a thing as wor...
Planning for Profit: How to attract and retain good employees with Denise McLellan
December 20, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBAre you focusing on what you need as a business in terms of labour? Do you know specifically what tasks a prospective employee might be undertaking and have you thought about how much farm culture can affect your staff and long-term profitability? In this podcast we caught up with people and safety expert Denise McLellan who shares her insights on how to attract and retain good employees and how they directly relate to running a profitable business. https://denisemclellan.com.au/resources ...
Planning for Profit: Farming for profit with Daniel Toohey
December 06, 2023 18:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBFarming and Profit: While we know the weather plays a huge role in whether a season comes off or not, knowing where your money goes and why, as well as where you want your farming business to be in five, ten years, is crucial in running a profitable farm business. This is the first episode in an eight part series “Planning for Profit”, featuring Daniel Toohey, a Farm Business Advisor at Planfarm Advisory, who uses his wealth of knowledge and experience to provide strategic guidance and supp...
Trailer
December 04, 2023 03:41 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBWelcome to the Shared Ag Solutions podcast by BCG, with your host Janine Batters. Janine is a partner in a mixed farming operation in the northern Wimmera and looks after media and communications at BCG. She has been busy revamping the BCG podcast and is excited to present a new, eight part series: Planning for profit. Janine will be talking with farmers, researchers and experts in their field, covering topics such as how to organise your farm for profit AND work/life balance, how to attra...
Incorporating standing crop pasture rotations into your farming system Incorporating standing crop pasture rotations into your farming system
September 27, 2023 05:25 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBGrain paddock feed and timing operations to make the best use of that feed are key determinants for the production and profitability of a livestock enterprise. This podcast explores standing crops within a pasture rotation, and we hear from local farmer Bailey Petering and how he implements grazing of standing crops within his families mixed farming business. This project is funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Incorporating standing crop pasture rotations into your farming system
September 27, 2023 05:25 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBGrain paddock feed and timing operations to make the best use of that feed are key determinants for the production and profitability of a livestock enterprise. This podcast explores standing crops within a pasture rotation, and we hear from local farmer Bailey Petering and how he implements grazing of standing crops within his families mixed farming business. This project is funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Meet the Team: Senior Manager – Corporate and Business Services Vin Delahunty
December 19, 2022 02:34 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB“It's important to stop and take stock of where you are and what you're doing. It's easy to become consumed by a task or in a series of events.” BCG Senior Manager – Corporate and Business Services Vin Delahunty on how he stays grounded and focussed on his goals. He also shares his passions, and why, as a highly skilled ag professional, he chooses to work at BCG. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Meet the Team: Genevieve Clarke
October 04, 2022 22:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBBCG Research and Extension Officer Genevieve Clarke shares why she loves long distance running and what spurs her on to complete the last few kilometers, the real reason she loves to travel and the unexpected profession that inspires her to be the best version of herself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Meet the Team: Kate Finger
August 04, 2022 10:42 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBBCG Research and Extension Officer Kate Finger shares how her mother’s advice brought her to Birchip, her family’s tradition of making the Russian Latvian dish pierogi and the unexpected item Kate couldn’t go a day without! Kate also shares how she stays involved in her family’s stud in Mansfield, succession planning and how her Russian grandmother inspires her every day to live her best life. For more information visit https://www.bcg.org.au/podcasts/ See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
Meet the Team: BCG CEO Fiona Best on saying yes and brown skivvies
July 06, 2022 23:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MB“Say yes and then find out what it involves later. Don't be scared to be a little bit vulnerable... ” BCG CEO Fiona Best shares some of the best advice she’s been given. Fiona also discusses how she deals with challenging situations, building strong relationships as well as why you will never see her in a brown skivvy! For more information visit https://www.bcg.org.au/?p=924481&preview=true See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.