Podcasts about live exports

There are five live export ships due out of Darwin Port in quick succession. Where are cattle coming from to fill these ships?

"We're going back to court, we're bringing all guns blazing, and will take you for every cent we can".

It is a busy week for the live export trade out of Darwin, with four cattle ships due out over five days.

In Senate Estimates this week, the federal department of agriculture was asked to explain why its biosecurity officers were only working daylight hours at the Darwin port and Broome port.

Coverage that provides news and analysis of national issues significant to regional Australians.

Associate Editor Ken Eastwood meets our live-exported cattle in Indonesia and concludes that positive change continues following the shock live export ban of 2011.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NT cattle producers have written to the APVMA seeking a special-use permit to keep using a common insecticidal ear tag.

What has 2024 been like for the Darwin Port?

There are several live export ships getting loaded out of Darwin port in the coming days. 

Send us a textWhat if you could change the fate of thousands of animals with just your voice? Join Julie South this week as she chats with Dr Helen Beattie, the pioneering founder of Veterinarians for Animal Welfare Aotearoa (VAWA).  Today Dr Helen she shares her compelling journey in challenging the norms of live animal exports. Through her expert lens, Dr Beattie brings to light the ethical dilemmas and dire conditions faced during these inhumane journeys. Dr Helen and Julie catch up on what she's been doing since her last guest appearance (back in ep. 069).   They talk about VAWAs mission through to grappling with the pressing need for sustainable financial models to keep such critical advocacy alive.As we confront the harsh realities of live exports, the episode also unravels the tragic story of Gulf Livestock 1, serving as a stark warning of the perils involved. Dr Helen and Julie talk about the political maelstrom surrounding New Zealand's anticipated repeal of the live export ban and they explore the global movement towards stricter regulations. This conversation isn't just about the challenges—it's about taking action. They discuss how public engagement can influence decision-making and shape policies that prioritise animal welfare. Tune in to discover the power of advocacy and the potential for meaningful change in the realm of animal rights.Links Mentioned TodayDr Helen Beattie - Episode 069Dr Helen Beattie - Episode 070Dr Helen Beattie - Episode 071Email Prime Minister Christopher LuxonVeterinarians for Animal Welfare Aotearoa websiteContemplating your next career move? Tania Bruce - VetStaff's passionate kiwi recruiter - would welcome the opportunity to have a 100% confidential chat with you. Tania's a former Ortho Head Vet Nurse so speaks your language!How to get more bang for your recruitment advertising buckThis is what VetStaff is really good at so if you'd like to stretch your recruitment dollar, please get in touch with Julie because this is something VetStaff can help you with. Committed to DIY-ing your own recruitment?If so, then shining online as a good employer is essential to attracting the types of veterinary professionals who're a perfect cultural fit for your clinic. The VetClinicJobs job board is the place to post your next job vacancy - to find out more get in touch with Lizzie at VetClinicJobs Revive Your Drive - daily 2-minute videos for veterinary employers and employees to help revive their drives at work and at home.

Fifty dairy heifers have been flown from Sydney to Jakarta in a milestone moment for Indonesia's free school lunch program.

The NT Buffalo Industry Council has appointed well-known livestock veterinarian Dr Ross Ainsworth as its new CEO.

The AWU calls on the Federal Government to introduce a national licensing scheme for shearers, a new survey find support among Australians for live animal export to continue, and the SA Produce market crowns its new "Cherry Queen" to mark the official start of the state's cherry season.

Paul McVerry is an experienced cattleman and a stud breeder, who had a wild vision to fly a gift of cattle to India with the help of winemaker Dan Murphy. (R)New Zealand-born cattleman Paul McVerry has been surrounded by animals his whole life, and not just in cattle pens or in sheep yards.Paul has accompanied thoroughbred horses on weeks-long ship journeys across the Pacific ocean. He's been stuck with prized bulls in the back of a truck going the wrong way down Broadway in New York City.After being with animals on land-bound vehicles and sea-faring vessels, eventually Paul thought, "Cows can fly."In the 1970s, thousands of cattle were being slaughtered in Victoria and southern New South Wales because of ongoing drought. At the same time, the dairy industry in India was struggling due to generations of inbreeding.Paul saw an opportunity to solve both problems, and loaded the world's first ever airborne cattle onto a stretch D68 at Tullamarine Airport, bound for Chennai.This episode of Conversations explores farming, agriculture, epic journeys, foreign aid, animal welfare, animal transport, charity work, Mother Teresa, India, Tullamarine airport, Melbourne, Darwin, Chennai, Hong Kong, travel, plane travel, aeroplanes, airplanes, weird cargo, genetics, cross-breeding animals, diverse gene pool, insemination.

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This podcast is brought to you by AXA Farm Insurance*Charles O'Donnell and Aisling O'Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes: Minister 'open' to €40/calf payment;Net margins for calf to beef farms;Sector reacts to live exports documentary;Meetings to discuss possible Arrabawn-Tipperary mergerMII sustainability charter;Fire in Kilkenny;National Dairy Show.Don't forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland's weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more. 

Angus Gidley-Baird, Senior Analyst - Animal Proteins at Rabobank, joins us this week to share his expertise on the sheep and beef industries across Australia and New Zealand. Angus helps us understand market dynamics, global demand and the impact of seasonal conditions on the market. In this episode we cover the:Current state of the Australian and New Zealand sheep and beef marketsImpact of drought and seasonal conditions on supplyGlobal demand for lamb and beef, particularly from China and the USFuture of the sheep industry in Western Australia in light of the live export banTrends in lamb carcass weights and consumer preferencesPotential for marketing premium lamb products and objective quality measuresFrom changing lamb prices driven by consumer demand to the effects of market shifts on land prices, Angus does a great job of explaining the various challenges and opportunities within the livestock sector, both on a trans-Tasman scale and globally. Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited, we help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best - info@nextgenagri.comThanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, and Heiniger Australia and New Zealand. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.Check out Heiniger's product range HERECheck out the MSD range HERECheck out Allflex products HERE

Send us a textWelcome to Episode 40 of A Place To Call Home Podcast.On this episode we chat to Tam Michalek. Tam was one of youngest people to ever have a live export licence in Australia and throughout this journey we chat all about live export and her journey to finding A Place to Call Home.Throughout this Episode we chat about.- Finding her place to Agriculture- Moving to WA- Working in Live Export- The positive story about live export- What is happening in WA at the moment- The flow on effect for communities and industries- Tam's land ownership journey.If you want to want to learn from some of things Tam's Mentioned throughout the episode, please see links belowPCAS Information | AUS-MEAT (ausmeat.com.au)Keep the SheepHome - YLEN - Young Livestock Exporters NetworkYou can find out more about Tam Below Tam (Pfitzner) Michalek | LinkedInIf you enjoyed the episode, please share with your friends and family.For more information check out our socialsA Place To Call Home | Hughenden QLD | FacebookA Place To Call Home

Alex Snape's life on live export boats 

Farmers from across the country gather to protest ag policy at Parliament House in Canberra, Ag Minister Collins says the government won't be backflipping on the live sheep export ban, and AWI asks farmers to increase the levy they pay for research and marketing programs.

In light of the recent legislation to end Australia's live sheep trade by May 2028, Nick and Adam reflect on the history of the stop live export campaign. More specifically, the show covers: alliances between animal activists and slaughterhouse workers, “animal nationalism” and debates about the campaign within the movement. We discuss what animal activists can learn from this history, regardless of which campaign/s they're focused on.   When we discuss the history of the campaign, we primarily draw on Gonzalo Villanueva's book – A Transnational History of the Australian Animal Movement, 1970–2015: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319625867  Additional links: Corey Wrenn's essay – Banning Live Export in Australia: https://www.coreyleewrenn.com/banning-live-export-in-australia/ Colin Salter's talk – Normativity, Intersectionality and States of Exception: https://archive.org/details/ColinSalter Check out Adam's Spotify playlist – Animal Lib & Vegan Songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5hVygGomw9zax38quC6mhi?si=c14b3a19ccf74d67   Music: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Pig by Weezer: https://weezer.lnk.to/music Seoul by Shoreline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxBdmVVlt8&pp=ygUQc2hvcmVsaW5lIHNlb3VsIA%3D%3D Dirty work by Ruby Gill: https://rubygill.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-work

We discuss a range of stories on this week's podcast including the live export trade, vet shortages affecting sheep sales, tillage farmers being escorted around Electric Picnic, how it's been a historically quiet summer for relief milkers and how tillage and dairy farms have sized up in the last 10 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A $260,000 State Government grant for Riverland wine grape growers to explore diversification and alternative crops, the wool industry's eastern market indicator falls to its lowest point since 2020, and Hahndorf's Oscar Golding named the senior champion herdsperson at this week's South Australian Junior Heifer Expo.

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This week, campaigners for animal rights won a years-long battle to ban the live export of sheep, with the practice to end by 2028 after it was passed in parliament. According to Animals Australia, three million animals have died in live export from Australia ... and that's not to mention what happens to them once they arrive at their destination.On the flipside of that though is the farming communities who rely on the trade for their livelihoods. In today's Briefing, we speak with John Hassell, a WA farmer and the Vice President of the National Farmers Federation to find out what's next for the industry and what farmers wish they could say to inner city folk who are against the practice. Headlines: More than 100 dead in crowd crush at religious event in India Palestinians flee Khan Younis after texts from Israel Donald Trump sentencing delayed Bob Katter portrait in Parliament House   Follow The Briefing:TikTok: @listnrnewsroomInstagram: @listnrnewsroom @thebriefingpodcast YouTube: @LiSTNRnewsroomFacebook: @LiSTNR NewsroomSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The reaction to laws that end the export of live sheep by sea in 2028 was fierce and furious, but the issue that brought us here has been a slow burn. The federal government says it has delivered on an election promise, animal welfare groups say it's a relief, but Queensland's farmers are worried about what is not being said, what about cattle?

Legislation passes parliament to end Australia's live sheep exports by May 2028, the opposition calls on SA to do more to ensure avian flu stays out of the state, and Grain Producers SA explores options for recycling grain silo bags.

A petition signed by thousands of New Zealanders calling for the government to keep its ban on live animal exports has been handed over to Parliament, Nick James reports.

An inquiry recommends the passage of the Federal Government's bill to end the live sheep trade by sea, Australia's first integrated green manufacturing facility planned for Tailem Bend, and the plant nursery industry disappointed that big retailers like Bunnings won't come under a new mandatory code of conduct.

The Inspector-General of Water Compliance calls for greater powers to enforce laws and conduct audits of the Murray-Darling Basin, South Australia's grain growers back the fight to retain live sheep export by sea from Australia, and questions raised around the licensing system for overseas-trained truck drivers and road safety.

On the show today: National are reinstating live exports. Dr John Hellstrom was the chief veterinary officer for the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries back when live exports started in NZ, and he says it's not only cruel, but reinstating could lead to a huge reputational demise of this country.  John Day on sport and how crap the Blackcaps were. Holly Bennett from 3 Gals 1 Beehive wraps the week in politics. And we Mediawatch RNZ's very own Mediawatch...they critiqued us, so we critique them. And also, RNZ, are you still 'boucin' on his booty cheeks'? Have a listen to find out why... If you would like to sign Dr John Hellstrom's petition, click here: https://bit.ly/3VvPjHs See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Federal Government officially introduces legislation to formalise the end of live sheep exports by sea, Australian researchers develop world-first technology to detect fruit fly with AI, and a young South Australian heads to Paris to compete in the World Young Shepherds competition.

Charles O'Donnell, Aisling O'Brien and Rubina Freiberg  bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:Agriland readers share views ahead of European elections Farmers to lose €1,000 calf rearing paymentBritain bans export of live animalsWhat does the future hold for small farms?Up to €130/MWh for farmers exporting renewable energyKildare farmer named student of the year Don't forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland's weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.ie for more.

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show a record number of people are not employed due to long term sickness. The Government's launching a new task force with the aim of getting people who are off work and on benefits, back on the payroll. The Prime Minister has suggested they could they be persuaded to get out into the fields to pick fruit and veg.The wet weather is impacting farmers across the country - and flower growers are being hit too. For many of those exhibiting this week at the Chelsea Flower Show, the heavy rain has meant losses of precious stock. Some haven't been able to exhibit this year at all. And animal welfare organisations have welcomed a ban on exports of some live animals from Great Britain for slaughter and fattening, which has come into law this week. Cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and horses are covered by the ban - but animals can still be exported live, for breeding and competitions.Presented by Anna Hill Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

The UK government says it received 11,395 responses to its consultation on laws, with 87% of them agreeing that livestock should not be exported for slaughter and fattening. As the law banning the trade came into effect, farmers are still digesting what it means for them, and Australia's role in the discussion.  

Livestock SA condemns the announcement of a 2028 phase-out of Australia's live exports of sheep by sea, a new toxic paste to deal with wild dogs and fox numbers enters the market, and Citrus SA welcomes the start of the season with favourable weather producing plenty of bright coloured, high quality fruit.

Polishing a turd is how one farmer's described the government's plan to resume live animal exports under a "gold standard" regime. Associate Agriculture Minister, Andrew Hoggard speaks to Lisa Owen

Animal rights in Aotearoa have been called into question once again with tensions rising between agricultural industry players and animal rights activists in light of coalition government agreements that outline a reversal of the recent ban on live animal export. In 2021, Aotearoa took a world-leading stance in banning live animal exports by sea, phasing out the practice this time last year. The proposed repeal signals a wider conversation around animal rights in Aotearoa, from political responsibility to public knowledge and transparent practice.  Producer Jasmine Gray spoke to Tara Jackson, Executive Director of New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society, to gain insight into the broader current state of animal rights in Aotearoa and to get her comments on the Live Export bill. NZAVS is Aotearoa's only registered charity dedicated to ending animal experimentation. To learn more about their mahi, and access the resources Tara mentioned, head to NZAVS.org.nz  

Federal Trade Minister Don Farrell visits the Riverland to meet with growers and winemakers amid an industry crisis, south east sheep producers discuss concerns around the proposed phase-out of live exports from Australia, and a survey of 300 SA grain producers finds around one third are in the process of succession.

The Federal Department of Agriculture investigates the deaths of more than 100 Australian cattle on board an export ship, Darling River residents angered by the State Government's decision to change the plans for the proposed rebuild of Wilcannia's weir, and Nikki Atkinson from the Flinders Ranges named SA's 2024 Agrifutures Rural Women Award winner for promoting the use of sustainable merino wool.

Industry group the Australian Livestock Exporters' Council suggested botulism, a rare disease spread via bacteria, could be the cause for the cattle deaths.

For Dear Science this week, Professor Alan Blackman chatted to us about daylight savings, handwriting for students, and a strange development for ladybugs.  Wire host Castor spoke to CEO of SAFE, Debra Ashton, about the organisation and their recent petition against the potential repeal of the Live Export ban.  Castor also spoke to Dr Rob Beaglehole, a spokesperson for the New Zealand Dental Association about sugary drinks in schools going into world oral health day. Producer Sofia spoke to haka expert and University of Auckland Professional Teaching Fellow of Māori Studies, Paora Sharples, about political expression through haka.  Sofia also spoke to Co-President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, Professor Troy Baisden, about the impending expiry of National Science Challenges and the future of science research funding. 

The previous Labour government introduced a ban on the live export of animals, with former agriculture minister Damien O' Connor claiming the ban upheld New Zealand's reputation for animal welfare standards. The current National led government has been pressured by several lobbying groups to overturn the ban, including a million dollar campaign by Livestock Export New Zealand.  Wire host Castor spoke to SAFE for Animals CEO, Debra Ashton, about SAFE, the possible repeal, and consequences for animals.

SA sheep producers worry for their industry's future over plans to phase out live exports, a QLD Fruit Fly outbreak in northern Adelaide causes headaches for farmers in the city's food bowl, and South East fishing groups call for changes to the current management of a lethal abalone virus outbreak.

It's being described as a major leap backwards in animal welfare in New Zealand, that is the resumption of live animal exports by sea. The SPCA is urging the Government to rethink its election promise to reverse the ban introduced by the previous government and bring back the export of live, farmed animals on ships. Just last month, a ship carrying 16,000 sheep and cattle en route from Australia to Israel, was turned back because of the risk of coming under attack in the Red Sea. The animals have been stranded for over a week in intense heat in Western Australia. Dr Arnja Dale, Chief Scientific Officer for the SPCA, speaks to Jimmy Ellingham. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6346711808112

Thousands of Australian sheep and cattle remain on board a ship after the federal regulator refuses an export application, exotic invasive snails are being turned into 3D models as an educational tool for grain producers, and the SA Greens call for a state-based inquiry into supermarket food prices and farmgate prices.

Live export ships from Australia will take a different route to Israel as a a result of Houthi rebel attacks. The return of live export ship MV Bahijah has put the live export in the spotlight with critics ramping up their attacks on trade. 

Key players in the agriculture industry have begun a one-million dollar lobbying campaign to persuade the government to restart live animal exports. A ban by the previous Labour government began in April 2023. National's coalition agreements with both ACT and New Zealand First promise to reverse the ban. But Livestock Export New Zealand believes that without a major lobbying and PR campaign, the government's pledge could stall or even fail. Investigative Journalist Guyon Espiner has the story.

The Government has intervened in an increasingly furious row between British Sugar and the National Farmers' Union over the price farmers will be paid for sugar beet next year. Some turkey farmers are bringing forward their Christmas plans in an effort to beat bird flu. As we reported, this time last year many were dealing with outbreaks on their farms and though this year (so far) there have been fewer cases, turkey farmers are taking extra measures to protect flocks. We hear a warning of the impact of the Government's decision to ban the export of live animals for slaughter. This was proposed but then dropped by the Government back in May. It's now been revived and appeared in the King's speech earlier this week. The Farmers' Union of Wales says it is not good news for farmers. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.