Agsolutely Fabulous

This week, don’t miss it as Katja and Gillian catch up on station and farm life, including renovations, recent cattle events, and travel to the NFF Leadership Forum and the Adelaide show, before previewing a live podcast recording and “activations” at Floriade tied to the International Year of Rural Women. They discuss encouraging youth into recreational shooting, emphasizing supervised training, safety, Australian licensing rules, and the discipline and life skills involved. The hosts then examine labor laws versus family farming, noting Australia lacks national data on children’s farm work, highlighting childcare and policy gaps, unpaid family labor (18% in 2016), women’s often-unrecognized contributions, and concerns about unpaid adult children and coercive control. They critique AI-generated regenerative-ag media imagery comparing perennial and annual wheat roots and promote Kim Storey’s What Does a Farmer Look Like? project. Finally, they outline HarvestHer Power fundraising webinars with Boyce Accounting on budget changes, working with accountants/banks, and succession planning, stressing advice is general.HHP webinar Collaboration with Boyce coming up!Wednesday 23rd September 2026 - Working Effectively with Your Accountant and Your BankWednesday 18th November 2026 - Preparing for the Next Generation to Take Over.Find out more, including speaker bios head to HarvestHer Powers website and socials.Links & ResourcesLandcare Australia: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/Find or Register a Group: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/find-a-group/Learn how to Get Involved with Landcare here: https://youtu.be/3s74Lvmlutk💕 Support Our PartnersTHANK YOU TO OUR PODCAST SPONSORS!Farm Table – Your online hub for all things ag, connecting farmers with resources, events, and opportunities. Check them out at https://farmtable.com.au/Book Box - Use code Fabulous15 for a special discount at checkout!Start your next chapter here → https://bookbox.au/

This week, don’t miss it as Katja and Gillian discuss the difficulty of sponsoring visas for a young couple to work in remote Australia, calling the process overly complex and asking listeners with agriculture sponsorship experience for tips, while suggesting dairy farmers and abattoirs may have relevant visa experience. Katya shares updates on her upcoming Australian fiction romance book, due before Christmas, the first in a six-part family series set out west, and encourages pre-orders via a waitlist with personalized signed copies. They criticize “Farmer Wants a Wife” for using non-farmers and staged filming that misrepresents agriculture and misses educational opportunities. The episode then introduces an interview with Cassie Andrews, a Coonamble Landcare coordinator, about a May horsemanship clinic with Texas Star Performance Horses, linking horse welfare and safety to land management practices like rotational grazing, weed control, waterway protection, and community engagement through Landcare events.HHP webinar Collaboration with Boyce coming up!Wednesday 23rd September 2026 - Working Effectively with Your Accountant and Your BankWednesday 18th November 2026 - Preparing for the Next Generation to Take Over.Find out more, including speaker bios head to HarvestHer Powers website and socials.Links & ResourcesLandcare Australia: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/Find or Register a Group: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/find-a-group/Learn how to Get Involved with Landcare here: https://youtu.be/3s74Lvmlutk💕 Support Our PartnersTHANK YOU TO OUR PODCAST SPONSORS!Farm Table – Your online hub for all things ag, connecting farmers with resources, events, and opportunities. Check them out at https://farmtable.com.au/Book Box - Use code Fabulous15 for a special discount at checkout!Start your next chapter here → https://bookbox.au/

Katja and Gillian celebrate two years of the Agsolutely Fabulous podcast, thank listeners, and discuss upcoming automation for a bare-bones website that will transcribe episodes into blog posts and schedule social posts. Katja promotes the upcoming Polldale bull sale in Dubbo on 26 August, highlighting QR-coded catalogs linking to YouTube bull videos and the extensive work behind stud sales.They preview and begin discussing key topics: a Dubbo Solar Recycling Hub proposal (supporting recycling but raising concerns about location on productive farmland, infrastructure/workforce needs, environmental risks like leaching, and better siting on existing industrial/contaminated coastal sites), a young listener’s “same sheep, zero waste” lanolin/wool question (not new, but lost urban knowledge; noting industry incentives for synthetics and advising ingredient checks and patch testing), and Channel 7 food shortage fears (expect bottlenecks and price rises, not running out of food, with suggestions for pantry backups and local producers).HHP webinar Collaboration with Boyce coming up!Wednesday 23rd September 2026 - Working Effectively with Your Accountant and Your BankWednesday 18th November 2026 - Preparing for the Next Generation to Take Over.Find out more including speaker bios head to Harvest Her Powers website and socials.Main website: https://www.gondwanamacadamias.com.au/Head straight to the skincare: https://www.gondwanamacadamias.com.au/collections/botanicals-skincare-rangeSavviMain Website: https://savvithelabel.com/Foundation: https://savvithelabel.com/pages/savvi-foundationFuture Her Event - 25th September 2026 6-8pm, Black Cat Cocktails, Wellington NSW.

In episode 87 of the Agsolutely Fabulous Podcast, Katja and Gillian share updates including merch shirts nearly selling out and how to buy remaining sizes; they preview topics such as the Cattle Australia levy review, Katja’s upcoming bull sale, and new product shout-outs.Katja recaps attending the Australian Women in Agriculture Conference with 250 women, sessions on AI, agrotourism, advocacy, and she co-facilitated a workshop identifying barriers to women’s leadership and developing advocacy pathways.Gillian explains the cattle transaction levy, where funds go (MLA marketing/R&D, Animal Health Australia, NRS), concerns about using compulsory levies for advocacy, transparency, and upcoming voting at MLA’s AGM. They promote Gondwana Macadamias, a Savvy event in Wellington, and HarvestHer Power planning and sponsorship needs, then criticize Telstra’s outage and accountability, and Gillian briefly recaps attending LambEx in Adelaide.HHP webinar Collaboration with Boyce coming up!Tuesday 18th August 10am - Tax Structure and Potential Impacts of the Federal BudgetWednesday 23rd September 2026 - Working Effectively with Your Accountant and Your BankWednesday 18th November 2026 - Preparing for the Next Generation to Take Over.Find out more including speaker bios head to Harvest Her Powers website and socials.Main website: https://www.gondwanamacadamias.com.au/Head straight to the skincare: https://www.gondwanamacadamias.com.au/collections/botanicals-skincare-rangeSavviMain Website: https://savvithelabel.com/Foundation: https://savvithelabel.com/pages/savvi-foundationFuture Her Event - 25th September 2026 6-8pm, Black Cat Cocktails, Wellington NSW.

In episode 86 of the Agsolutely Fabulous Podcast, it’s part 2 of the live discussion with Katja and Gillian. In this episode, Katja explains navigating male-dominated workplaces by listening, reflecting others’ language, and using structured tools like strong chairs and timed speaking limits in boardrooms to ensure all voices are heard. The group critiques agriculture’s tendency to elect poor leaders who block new talent and rely on “fight” tactics with government, emphasizing that boardrooms should be gender neutral and that governance matters.They discuss using DiSC/Myers-Briggs-style profiles to communicate in others’ “language” and how to motivate participation by framing it as business value. The conversation shifts to how appearance affects success only “to a point,” noting women receive conflicting judgments regardless of dress. They then address perimenopause/menopause, its early and insidious symptoms (brain fog, irritability, UTIs) and safety/family impacts in farming, and link it to succession stress, arguing succession should start early, be regularly reviewed, involve honest, age-appropriate family conversations, and consider business viability, fair pay, diversification, and vertical integration to support returning children.Links & ResourcesLandcare Australia: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/Find or Register a Group: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/find-a-group/Learn how to Get Involved with Landcare here: https://youtu.be/3s74Lvmlutk💕 Support Our PartnersTHANK YOU TO OUR PODCAST SPONSORS!Farm Table – Your online hub for all things ag, connecting farmers with resources, events, and opportunities. Check them out at https://farmtable.com.au/Book Box - Use code Fabulous15 for a special discount at checkout!Start your next chapter here → https://bookbox.au/