We are back, and in this episode of This is Aussie Ag we are heading from conception to consumption in Western Australia. We’ve been invited along by Harvest Road Group, a diversified agribusiness covering various land types, locations and environments from the Kimberly in the north to Albany in the south. We’re here to meet the team to understand the role of people within their vertically integrated gate to plate beef business, an established and growing aquaculture brand and emerging horticulture operations. Harvest Road are on a mission to take Western Australia's most sustainable produce to the world and we're here to find out what it takes. 00:00 Introduction 00:42 Mark Wiedermann 01:11 Who is Harvest Road 02:30 Minderoo Station 05:30 Ben Dwyer 06:52 Building team culture at Harvest Road 07:50 The Minderoo livestock team 08:48 Brickhouse Station Horticulture 11:10 Koojan Downs Feeding Facility 13:07 Livestock Supply chain movements 14:45 Harvey Beef 18:25 Blair Stubna 19:58 Aquaculture operation in Albany 21:16 Justin Welsh 22:16 Carnarvon Oyster Nursery 23:53 Jobs in Aquaculture 24:36 Carbon Neutral Sustainable Aquaculture 26:04 Paul Slaughter, CEO Harvest Road 27:29 Summary of the episode This video series is part of a paid partnership between Humans of Agriculture and Harvest Road. Subscribe To Our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszk... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humansofagri... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humansofagr... Twitter: https://twitter.com/humans_of_ag Harvest Road Group is on a mission to take Western Australia's most sustina

In this episode we meet up with the team from Mort & Co to get a first-hand look at what is involved in Lot Feeding cattle here in Australia. Mort & Co is the vision of founder, Charlie Mort. Today, they are a vertically integrated Beef business selling their beef products throughout Australia and around the world. Their feedlot 'Grassdale' is Australia's largest feedlot with capacity for more than 78,000 head of cattle on feed at one time. We catch up with Charlie and his team to learn from them what happens in their day to day, why are cattle put in feedlots, what's involved from an animal welfare perspective, what are they fed, how do they manage the environment and why people are so important to them and the broader sector. You're joining us on location across Southern Queensland as we catch up with Charlie, Stephen, Marcus, Caitlyn, Chelsea and Brad, to understand a little bit more about how, why and what's involved in feedlotting cattle. Chapters: 00:00 - introduction 00:48 - Meet Founder Charlie Mort 02:38 - Arrival at Grassdale Feedlot 02:58: About the Feedlot 03:42 - Meet Livestock Buyer and Logistics Coordinator 05:50 - Feed and nutrition for cattle 07:05 - Approach to Animal Welfare 07:28 - Meet Pen Rider Chelsea 09:22 - Recycling waste into fertiliser 12:20 - Why feedlotting exists This episode is in Partnership with Mort & Co to showcase Beef Feedlotting in Australian agriculture. Subscribe To Our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszkahF53ac54sAv_IkKENA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humansofagricultureofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humansofagriculture_ Twitter: https://twitter.com/humans_of_ag Get in touch: hello@humansofagriculture.com

Australians love their chickens, so much so that each Australia eats on average about 50 kilograms of chicken every year. That means that nearly 690 million meat chickens are raised every year for Aussie consumers. One thing that these consumers deeply care about is animal welfare. We were invited by the RSPCA Australia, to look at the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme, to understand what higher animal welfare standards look like on the farm through to the supermarket shelf. In this video we met with both Ingham's and Baiada to look at both barn raised and free range farming, as well as traditional genetics and the new slow-grown variety of birds. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:38 The team at Inghams 01:14 Are there hormones in Chicken? 01:56 First thoughts in a chicken shed 02:13 Meet Wy the Chicken Farmer 04:28 First thoughts of this type of farming 05:30 The use of Technology on farm 08:23 RSPCA Approved Farming 10:00 Why farming this way is important 11:40 Free Range Chicken Farming 12:50 What happens in Free Range? 13:50 Animal Welfare at Baiada 15:20 Slow Grown chickens 16:22 How the majority of chickens are farmed in Australia 18:20 Coles Supermarket Chickens Subscribe To Our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCszkahF53ac54sAv_IkKENA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humansofagricultureofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humansofagriculture_ Twitter: https://twitter.com/humans_of_ag This video is part of a paid partnership between Humans of Agriculture and RSPCA.