RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness Australia/NZ

Charlie Clack and Wes Lefroy review the latest prospects for the sugar market as our domestic crush gets underway. After a turbulent start to the year, the team attempts to put an uncertain 2020 outlook into perspective – drought, deficits, and dealing with Covid-19 are just the start!

Michael Harvey asks Tom Bailey to provide insights on the fundamentals impacting the US dairy industry, with a keen focus on where to go from here. We hope you enjoy.

Last November, Wes Lefroy and Lachlan Monsbourgh attended AgriTechnica – the world's leading machinery and AgTechnology field days in Germany. In our latest podcast, Wes and Lachlan review their key takeways, share what has happened since, and share their views on how these key trends will impact farmers in the future.

The 2020 season is soon coming to a close, raising the question: how could the new 2021 season shake out amid Covid-19? Andrew Tasker joins Charlie Clack from St Louis, Missouri to depict a somewhat uncertain cotton outlook, where US acres, Chinese buying, and Brazilian logistics could all play a part.

Tim Hunt and Dennis Voznesenski review the first four months of the crisis and its impact on Australian farmers.

Australian winter crop production is set to surge from last year’s lows. With that in mind, Cheryl Kalisch Gordon joins Oscar Tjakra to find out about post-Covid-19 grain demand in SE Asia. Could SE Asia be in need of extra feed grain? How will wheat-based consumption fare among Covid-19 disruptions? And can growth in Thailand’s feed barley imports continue? This episode also appears on our sister podcast RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness Asia

Following very strong pricing in recent seasons, NZ venison producers are facing some challenging times ahead. Blake Holgate and Hayden Higgins take a look at the outlook for the next 12 months, including just how much Covid-19 will impact the sector.

What is important for getting farm succession right and keeping businesses viable and families happy? Rabobank Succession Facilitator Kim Lee joins RaboResearch Senior Analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon to share her experience in the area and her insights into how families can get on the front foot in succession planning.

The US beef industry has seen a tumultuous start to 2020 as a result of Covid-19, with dramatic drops in futures prices, the closure of the restaurant trade, and more recently, a number of plant closures. US analyst Don Close talks with Angus Gidley-Baird and Blake Holgate about the situation and how this might affect Australian and NZ beef exports.   This episode has also been released on our sister podcast, RaboResearch F&A North America

Roland Fumasi joins Hayden Higgins to discuss the almond sector over the balance of 2020. Since Rabobank released US almond pricing forecasts in early January 2020, the landscape has altered. Key talking points include how the increased US almond crop for 2020 combined with the impacts of Covid-19 on global economies influence both the US and Australian almond sectors, as can be ascertained today. This episode has also been released on our sister podcast, RaboResearch F&A North America

Michael Every, Global Strategist, talks to Tim Hunt about the outlook for the global economy, currency, and interest rates in a Covid-19 world.

Hayden Higgins is joined by Cindy van Rijswick to discuss core sustainability themes that fresh produce sector participants from across the globe highlighted in late 2019. Hayden and Cindy talk about the top five segments and discuss how relevant they may be in a post-Covid-19 environment.

Hayden Higgins is joined by Michael Harvey to digest the global dairy fundamentals that underpin RaboResearch’s milk price forecast ahead of the 2020/21 season.

Increased uncertainty in the usual supply chains of global agrochemicals and fertilizers has raised worries for domestic growers, including in the sugar sector. Wes Lefroy joins Charles Clack to chew the fat on recent supply disruptions and what our growers can expect in the coming months.

Angus Gidley-Baird and Charles Clack discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the Australian wool and cotton markets and what it means for the short-term outlook.

Sam Chambers, Associate Director, Markets for Rabobank Australia and New Zealand, joins RaboResearch Senior Grains & Oilseeds Analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon to discuss swaps strategies in the context of Q1 volatility in global wheat pricing, the lower Aussie dollar, prospects for improved local production in 2020, and what should be on the radar for risk management as 2020/21 plays out.

Covid-19 has introduced uncertainty and downside in many agricultural markets. RaboResearch Senior Grains & Oilseeds Analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon and Agriculture Analyst Wes Lefroy discuss our revised outlook for grain and oilseed markets in 2020 amid the spread of Covid-19 and OPEC+ supply uncertainty.

Covid-19 prevented Steve Nicholson, our US-based grain & oilseed analyst, from joining us in Australia in March, but that won’t stop the messages getting through! He joins Cheryl Kalisch Gordon, our Australia-based grain & oilseed analyst, in the podcast for a discussion of the ten-year grain margin outlook and what strategies grain farmers should consider to pursue profitability.

Angus Gidley-Baird and Blake Holgate talk about the impact Covid-19 is having on the Australian and New Zealand red meat industries.

Global dairy markets have experienced a volatile start to 2020. Despite the elevated levels of uncertainty, Emma Higgins and Michael Harvey take a look at the global dairy market fundamentals and how things might play out through the rest of 2020.