TAKE a look in any supermarket retail chilled cabinet, and it's evident that value-added meat products are rapidly soaking up space previously devoted to basic chilled, packaged beef and lamb.
Around the world, time-poor householders are increasingly looking at more convenient heat-and-serve and ready-to-eat meals.
One of the pioneers in the value-added further processing industry in Australia, David Beak, sits down with the Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week.
His Sydney-based food manufacturing business, Beak & Johnston, employs 1200 staff, and is in the process of opening an enormous new state-of the-art facility to keep up with booming domestic and international demand.
What does it mean for the Australian beef and lamb industries?
As an aside, David has a close family connection with pastoral industry legends, the Vestey family, and recounts some of his memories with Kerry.
S2 Ep 23: Chris Howie & Matt Dalgleish on the rapidly changing cattle market
S2 Ep 22: Kimberley Meat Co chief, David Larkin
S2 Ep 21: Beef Central’s ’Man on the ground’ in Indonesia, Ross Ainsworth
S2 Ep 20: Queensland beef processor, Trevor Lee
S2 Ep 19: Working dog legend, Frank Finger
S2 Ep 18: New Federal Agriculture Minister, Murray Watt
S2 Ep 17: Wagyu Association president and Zanda McDonald award winner, Charlie Perry
S2 Ep 16: Markets update, with Chris Howie and Matt Dalgleish
S2 Ep 15: Cattle baron Peter Hughes
S2 Ep 14: ALFA president Barb Madden
S2 Ep 13: Sally Warriner - ”Not just the wife of the general manager”
S2 Ep 12: Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef president, Ian McConnell
S2 Ep 11: Lumpy Skin Disease and biosecurity issues, with Australia’s chief vet, Dr Mark Schipp
S2 Ep 10: Whats in store for rural property market values in 2022?
S2 Ep9: Understanding the increasingly complex carbon market, with Terry McCosker
S2 Ep 8: Is there a future for stud cattle showing? We ask RAS’s Al Rayner and RNA’s Gary Noller
S2 Ep 7: Wagyu industry pioneer, David Blackmore
S2 Ep 6: The bottom-to-the-top story of beef processing plant manager, Wasa Mudannayake
S2 Ep 5: Grazing industry identity Jock Whittle
S2 Ep 4: Veteran red meat industry leader, David Crombie
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