In this two part episode, we start by hearing from Annie Pumpa a Beef Sales Rep and the Beef InFocus Supply Chain Manager in Australia and Fletch Kelly a Key Strategic Account Manager in the Southern Australia Region. These two really crack open the Australia production conversation. We talk controversies, feed availability, what producers need to sustain, and how beef and beef on dairy strategies will continue to change for the future. Annie, Fletch, and other team member's stories are really cool to listen to.
Hang on for the ride, this episode is a longer one - but the conversations had so much quality I couldn't stand to edit out any more time than I already had.
Segment Two follows with a U.S and Californian native, Ryan Person. Having lived in Australia for over seven years, the Texas A&M grad's insights into how he applied what he learned in Australian production to his cattle operation is quite a story. Person works in the international meat trade and is currently a beef production professor at Fresno State. We talk the realities of California cattle production, how historically we've changed types and kinds of cattle, and what he hopes to see for the future of the industry and his up and coming students going into the industry. Towards the end of the episode, we talk exports in China, South America, India, Indonesia, Western Asia, and the US.
You won't want to miss it!