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The Angus Table

The Angus Table

著者： Scott Wright CEO Angus Australia
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 Welcome to the new look Angus Australia podcast. This season we'll be bringing you conversations designed to add real value to your business. As members of Angus Australia, you'll hear from the people across the breed and the wider beef industry sharing insights, stories, and ideas that really matter.Copyright © 2025, Angus Australia, All rights reserved.
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  • Episode 42 | Building Resilience in Family Farming Operations, with Frank Archer (Landfall Angus) and Ram Savana (Enable Ag)

    Episode 42 | Building Resilience in Family Farming Operations, with Frank Archer (Landfall Angus) and Ram Savana (Enable Ag)
    2026/09/07
    Episode Summary: In this episode of The Angus Table, Scott Wright sits down with Frank Archer of Landfall Angus, and Ram Savana from Enable Ag, for a conversion about business resilience, building systems, and transforming overwhelm into opportunities.Frank shares his 150-year old six-generation family operation, Landfall Angus, and how they became Australia’s largest registered Angus seed stock breeder. Ram shares his career pivot from biotech medical devices into farming, from farmhand work to consulting and building Enable Ag. Frank, Ram and Scott discuss how the CREW framework has helped Frank invest in the development of his team and also his own leadership, and led to a strategic reallocation of Frank’s time from 75% farmhand work to now a 25/75 hands on/leadership split. This enabled Frank to take a three-month caravan trip with is family to test the systems they’ve built and see the farm and his staff thrive. Frank and Ram share the key business outcomes this achieved, like reduced winter feeding and improved pasture management, as well as the importance of measuring growth internally (people, career progression) versus only looking at external indicators (bull sales).Ram shares how other farmers can get started with this process, as well as ideas for small farms to look at community resources rather than full-time staff.So pull up a chair at the Angus Table for this conversation about systems, culture, delegation and building a farming business that can thrive without you.Key topics covered:Frank’s 150-year old six-generation family operation, Landfall Angus, and how they became Australia’s largest registered Angus seed stock breederRam’s background in biotechnology and medical device innovation, and how he pivoted into farming and eventually built Enable Ag The time analysis that revealed Frank spent spent 75% of his time as farm hand, prompting a shift to 25% hands-on/75% leadership splitImplementing Ram’s CREW framework so that Frank could take a three month holiday to test the systems and enable his staff to act without himCreating sustainable business resilience and both tangible outcomes (reduced winter feeding, improved pasture management) and intangible outcomes (stronger team, personal development, time freedom)Measuring growth internally (people, career progression) versus only looking at external indicators (bull sales).Breaking the Archer surname dependency, with non-family staff offering equal client valueIntentional investment in people and systems creating lower profit but long-term sustainability Ram's personal story taking 4 months off for parental leave and then a 6 week holiday within the same year, while his business independence grewHow small farms can use community resources instead of full-time staff to build team cultureThe need for continued hard conversations about future direction and family involvement when succession planning for the sixth generation Contact details:Connect with Ram via https://enableag.com.au/Connect with Frank via https://www.landfall.com.au/This podcast is proudly brought to you by Angus Australia https://www.angusaustralia.com.au/+Follow Angus Australia on + Facebook + Instagram + X + LinkedIn + +Follow Angus Youth Australia on + Facebook + Instagram + X + CREDITS:Host: Scott Wright, CEO. Get in touch via email ceo@angusaustralia.com.auProducer: Mel Strasburg mel.strasburg@angusaustralia.com.auAudio editing and post-production: Ellen Ronalds Keene at https://perkdigital.com.au
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    54 分
  • Episode 41 | Data-Driven Cattle Breeding in the North, with Darryl Savage, NAPCo

    Episode 41 | Data-Driven Cattle Breeding in the North, with Darryl Savage, NAPCo
    2026/08/31
    In this episode of The Angus Table, Scott Wright sits down with Darryl Savage, GM Programs and Innovation at North Australian Pastoral Company for a conversation about long-term strategy, data-driven modernisation, and leading complex breeding programs at scale.Darryl shares his 30-year meandering career journey from jackaroo to GM across Australia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He explains NAPCo’s 150-year history as a privately-owned company with 6.1M hectares, 215,000 cattle and two stabilised composite breeds. Scott and Darryl discuss the three main markets of NAPCo’s core business, the modernisation process they have undertaken to capture data and apply AI to analyse herd performance, and the two-week carcass data feedback loop that has enabled meat quality improvements. They explore how NAPCo maintains its remarkable company culture that has underpinned their success, the importance of scale and deliberate family-line diversity in maintaining their closed breeding program, and what Darryl views as the greatest existential threats and unprecedented opportunities for Australia’s livestock industry.So pull up a chair at the Angus Table for this conversation about long term strategy, data-driven innovation, and defending livestock’s future.Key topics covered:Darryls’ 30-year career journey from jackaroo through roles with MLA, UNE and now NAPCo and his work in the Middle East, Africa and AsiaNAPCo's 150-year history as a privately-owned company with 6.1M hectares, 215,000 cattle, two stabilised composite breeds (Alexandria and Kynuna).The three markets NAPCo’s core business focuses on: 100-day JBS bullocks, Woolworths grain-fed, and the 5 Founders branded product reaching 12 countriesThe modernisation process NAPCo has undertaken capturing data and applying AI to analyse herd performance with three main objectives (extract more value, provide ownership insights and enable sustainability transparency)Why NAPCo’s breeding objectives have remained the same (fertility, growth, meat quality) for 30+ yearsThe ‘days to cash’ key metric that measures efficiency from birth to payment, MSA carcass feedback within two weeks to inform breeding selections, and the Polled Accelerator program targets eliminating dehorning by 2032How NAPCo maintains its remarkable company culture that has underpinned their successThe importance of scale and deliberate family-line diversity in maintaining NAPCo’s closed breeding program for 30 years with 0.5% inbreeding rateWhat Darryl views as the greatest existential threats facing livestock industries todayPositioning Australia’s grazing-based production as a competitive advantage for biodiversity preservation and the WHO One Health approachDarryl’s advice to young people entering the agriculture industry: be patient, be practical and never forget the energy that comes from learningContact details:This podcast is proudly brought to you by Angus Australia https://www.angusaustralia.com.au/+Follow Angus Australia on + Facebook + Instagram + X + LinkedIn + +Follow Angus Youth Australia on + Facebook + Instagram + X + CREDITS:Host: Scott Wright, CEO. Get in touch via email ceo@angusaustralia.com.auProducer: Mel Strasburg mel.strasburg@angusaustralia.com.auAudio editing and post-production: Ellen Ronalds Keene at https://perkdigital.com.au
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    1 時間 7 分
  • Episode 40 | People-First Leadership through Crisis, with Angus Street

    Episode 40 | People-First Leadership through Crisis, with Angus Street
    2026/08/24
    In this episode of The Angus Table, Scott Wright sits down with Angus Street, CEO of Zentera Wool Company, for a conversation about career journey, crisis leadership, people-focused management, and brand value-building in agriculture.Angus shares his journey from NSW bush kid to CEO of AuctionsPlus during COVID, via a GFC-era journalism redundancy and a stint at MLA during the live-export crisis.Angus describes the explosive AuctionsPlus growth story during COVID—jumping from 4,000 cattle listings to 30,000 within weeks as season turned, restocking market activated, and uncertainty around auctions being essential services drove online adoption 10-15 years ahead of natural trajectory.He emphasises that team execution and foundational work on systems, processes, culture, and people prior to COVID positioned them to manage the explosive growth and completely rebuild the platform after a critical ‘D-Day’ moment of near-failure.Angus outlines his leadership principles and core values including curiosity, accepting failure, and honesty. He shares his personal journey during COVID involving mental health support, addressing imposter syndrome and developing a people-focused rather than command-and-control leadership style.Now at Zentera Wool Company (formerly New Zealand Merino Company), Angus discusses the rebrand and expansion reflecting company evolution from pure Merino differentiation to value-add certification, digital traceability, and sustainability standards (ZQ and ZQ+ certification).Angus attributes leadership effectiveness to good people and team culture, advocates for one-page strategic plans and warns Angus Australia against complacency to maintain their leadership position.So pull up a chair at the Angus Table for this conversation about creating luck through mentorship, leading through crisis with purpose, and building consumer-driven branded businesses in commodity agriculture.Key topics covered:How Angus progressed from journalism aspirations through GFC redundancy at Fairfax to finding meaningful work at MLA during the Indonesian live export crisisThe importance of mentorship and people reaching out with opportunities during tough times, and how it led Angus to some instrumental career turning pointsThe explosive growth of AuctionsPlus during COVID, from 4,000 listings to 30,000 within weeks driven by season turn, restocking market, and online adoption accelerationThe Critical D-Day crisis that nearly caused platform failure, how the team handled it and how they approached the rebuild decisionWhy the foundation work on systems, processes, culture, and people prior to COVID positioned AuctionsPlus to manage the explosive growth and "not drop the ball."Angus’ leadership principles of linking decisions to meaningful purpose, continuous alignment and feedback loops (weekly/monthly not yearly), and keeping people at heart of decision-makingThe personal mental health journey Angus went on during COVID, and moving away from command-and-control leadership toward a people-focused approachCore values of curiosity, accepting failure, honesty, and operating with diversity of thought rather than command-and-answer approachRebranding New Zealand Merino Company to Zentera Wool Company, a value-add wool business built on certification (ZQ, ZQ+), digital traceability, long-term contracts and the consumer shift from synthetics to natural fibresZentera’s geographic expansion from New Zealand to Australia and South Africa driven by demand for animal welfare certification and sustainability standardsLong-term offtake agreements (5-10 years) providing price certainty and 15-20% premium versus commodity wool market volatilityThe power of a one-page strategic plan to force clarity and consistency, and building in regular review cycles (6-12 months for fast-moving sectors, 3 years for stable industry bodies)The warning against complacency for the Angus industry, using Jim Collins' How the Mighty Have Fallen framing leadership as maintaining position not defending turf.Contact details:Contact Angus or Zentera Wool via the website https://www.zenterawool.com/This podcast is proudly brought to you by Angus Australia https://www.angusaustralia.com.au/+Follow Angus Australia on + Facebook + Instagram + X + LinkedIn ++Follow Angus Youth Australia on + Facebook + Instagram + X +CREDITS:Host: Scott Wright, CEO. Get in touch via email ceo@angusaustralia.com.auProducer: Mel Strasburg mel.strasburg@angusaustralia.com.auAudio editing and post-production: Ellen Ronalds Keene at https://perkdigital.com.au
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    1 時間 6 分
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