FULL SHOW 10th MARCH 2026

0:00Good morning and welcome to Rural Queensland. Today, Ben Dolvin with you this morning and it is the 10th of March across Rural Queensland. Rain, rain, rain, big rain throughout different parts of Queensland and our thoughts are with everybody through the South Burnett and even in Bunderburg as they brace for disaster this morning. A state of emergency has been declared as the Burnett River threatens to surpass the 2010 flood levels. Huge, 500 roads closed across Queensland. The long-term pitch will be okay, but the devastation at the moment is very real. A very good morning to everybody through 4SB, 4ZR, 4VL, 4HI, 4LM, 4LG, 4GC charters, towers and the hot country network. Good morning to you all. Ben Dolvin with you this morning on Rural Queensland today and a lot to get through. We will talk about what has happened overnight with the Iran Women's Soccer team, quite unbelievable. The fuel crisis is very real.

1:00Ben Hymash from Jim Hymash and Suns will join us on a Southern update. We'll talk with Brendan Taylor from AgForce, Grains, Sean Dillon as well and much, much more. There's a lot to get through. It's a big show. This is Rural Queensland today. You're with Ben Dolvin and it is the 10th of March on Rural Queensland today across the Resident April Cast Network. Good morning. Welcome back to Rural Queensland today and gee whiz, the message from Australia has been very clear. The Iran Women's National Football Team have separated from their delegation at the hotel on the Gold Coast and it has been a real talking point throughout Australia. And overnight Donald Trump intervened and rang Anthony Albusnese and asked him to make sure that Anthony Albusnese grant team asylum after they were branded wartime traders

2:01by the Iranian State Media for refusing to sing the National Anthem at a match last week. Mr. Trump wrote, Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Women's Team to be forced back to Iran. Do not do it, Mr. Prime Minister. Give asylum. The US will take them if you won't. An hour later, Mr. Trump revealed that he'd personally spoken to Mr. Albusnese and received assurances that women would not be forced back to Iran. He's on it. Five have already been taken care of Trump wrote. Some however feel they must go back because they're worried for the safety of their families, including the threats of those family members if they don't return. In any event, the Prime Minister is doing a very good job. God bless Australia. They are the words from Donald Trump. Now, this morning, Tony Burke with the Iran war entering its 10th day has intervened.

3:08He has offered the Australian players a bridging and they will have a safe location and have been moved by the Australian federal police. This is a huge, huge, breaking story. That Tony Burke, who has never had the back of his own country, has looked after these Iranian women's soccer team and I'm pleased he has. And it only came after Donald Trump intervened because the response had been absolutely pretty much pathetic. Now, Tony Burke has come out this morning and made some pretty big statements about what he believes in and what is going to happen moving forward. He said, the five Iranian, that what's happened is the federal government has confirmed that the five Iranian football players will remain Australia after seeking asylum.

4:11He said, he met with the women last night and told them they were welcome to stay in Australia. Albanese was called by Trump at 2 a.m. this morning. Well, I can tell you, this is a huge, huge story making national news. This war isn't going away. And off the back of that, we have a few crosses which we're going to talk about. But I am pleased that the federal government has confirmed that these poor ladies who represented their country of seeking asylum can stay here. What I will say is that there needs to be some background checks regardless. And that's not being unfair. There needs to be some background checks regardless. Now, before I talk with Sean Dillon, this joke of a human being, and I say that with the deepest respect in Chris Bowen who says there shouldn't be panic. No need for panic buying a fuel.

5:11The energy minister Chris Bowen also provided an update seeking to reassure it remains at this point secure. We have as much diesel in Australia today as we've had before the crisis began. Well, why is the crisis going up? Why are people lining up and why can't people get fuel? Chris Bowen is delusional when it comes to these kind of issues. Now, the Australians stuck in the Middle East at the present moment. Most of them have returned. Foreign Minister Penny Wong has also given us an update on the situation. 2600 Australians have now returned by commercial flights. There is more schedule. The first flight from Qatar lander back in Australia yesterday and there is hope more flights will be able to return. She is spoken with people in Qatar. There is bus transportation getting Australians out of Q8 where the airport remains closed. There is a lot of Australians stuck in the Middle East.

6:13She was Chris Bowen, Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong making the seasons for this country at the moment. You don't tell me I'm worried, I'm petrified. I am pleased though about these women and being a remaining here and that was able to be done. And I'm actually pleased that Donald Trump has stepped in and made it very clear that this is the way forward. It had to happen and Anthony Albanese rolled over like we expected once this was done. It's important to know that we were umming and airing and then finally once the pressure got put on, Tony Burke granted the five Iranian football as a asylum after the Australian Federal Police helped the women flee minders. This is an important moment. But it does put us in the headlines.

7:17We got some problems at the moment. We're going to take a break. Sean Dylan joins us next. This is Rural Queensland today. Welcome back to Rural Queensland today. As I said at the top of the show, some serious flooding throughout Queensland at the moment, but the long term play is that it is wonderful rain. We obviously worry about livestock losses and we look at you know, how thousands of inundation of water. But when you talk about some of the water that has been fallen and throughout different parts that was extremely dry, this will set up Queensland better than it has been for some time. As we go to air today, over 30%, 31% for Fairburn Dam, which has not seen that for some time. The member for Gregory is Sean Dylan. He is trapped from his property at the moment. He's obviously in Emerald as we speak to him this morning. Good morning, Sean. Thanks so much for being with us. He's wonderful rain. I understand Gimpy and I understand Bunderburg and the inundations there and even parts of Chinchilla

8:18and some of the highways are cut. But gee, was it a good situation to be in it? And some of the best rain I've seen in some many years, how it fell. Yeah, good morning, Dave. Good morning to you, Lister. Certainly through the Central Highlands, absolutely fantastic rain. Unfortunately, we had at least one property that was severely inundated with water yesterday, but definitely from north of, you know, my advice from a text to people and there's been included in the premier about the rain was that from virtually Rolston to Marabara, which is sort of bi-sex, my electorate diagonally and half consistent falls of between 100 and 200 millimetres. And that's just terrific rain. Certainly that western area now going to have a major flood go through parts of Longreach. And yeah, as you've mentioned, lots of roads were cut yesterday in and around Emerald, starting to free up today. I think we'll see road access in the next day. Too close to Claremontas, Teresa Creek comes down in really big way in a big way.

9:18But certainly I think the Capricorn Highway will return to full access if it hasn't already by the time you go to where it certainly will later in the day. And I think really this is the shot in the arm. This gives the full moisture profile for farmers looking at winter. It gives us a little bit of growing time for some grass. But the other thing is the region needed the rain, but so did the other Queensland. And it's right, it's reached to room. It's reached again to Mandabra. And yeah, certainly our thoughts are those with those who had a little bit too much rain, but given everyone needed rain, I think we're in a better spot than we were two days ago. Well, we will see, you know, obviously some flooding and some damage. But the long-term play for the agricultural sector is obviously far outweighs it. The concern we've got, we will talk to Brendan Taylor a little later, is the conflict going on in Iran and the effect that that has here, and I talk about diesel reserves.

10:20Now, I know this is a federally issue, but never have I felt more angst towards Chris Bowen with some of the comments that he's made, completely informed and completely dismissive of just the severity if we don't have the diesel supply. And I don't want to put panic stations into people, but this is an issue at the moment. And it's one that we're focusing heavily on on this show because of just the need. I mean, minute it dries out, people will be burning diesel planting. We need to get crops in the ground. There's oats, crops, there's wheat crops in the central. There is a lot to apply. And if we don't have diesel reserves here, we're in big, big trouble. I mean, that is the food bowl of the nation and we're putting ourselves at serious risk. Yeah, certainly, I mean, I guess even in terms of the summer crops, don't forget we still have harvest for our sorghum to go. Look, certainly our distance is certainly us.

11:22The Minister for Energy, David Genetski, the Treasurer has definitely taken up this course very clearly with the Federal Government. We've called, he has called on Minister Bound to meet with him to receive a briefing and to give a briefing as to where we're at with fuel, but also to where people on the ground are at with lack of fuel. We certainly, certainly understand that it's critical. And it's, you know, farming cannot farm without diesel, but there are some of the other elements of our economy. You know, we can't resupply our grocery shops have been speaking to me as in Western Queensland who are concerned about the ability for their grocery shops to be resupplied if fuel shortages happen because we all live on the end of a supply chain. We, we needed for people who live on remote calisations who have a diesel power generator. We needed for the mining industry, which is, you know, the backbone of the Central Queensland economy alongside agriculture. So that nothing happens in Australia without diesel, without petrol, without aviation fuel.

12:25So all of these things are things that we're, you know, are calling on the Federal Government to be transparent about where the situation's at. I do, I do, I guess, implore people who may be in town or, you know, may not have an immediate need for fuel to try to limit their panic buying of it, but certainly in my heart, with those people who've been ringing their fuel retailers or their fuel distributors and ordering their normal, you know, expect to a grazer at the gym field yesterday, in normally orders 10,000 litres of diesel at a time. And unfortunately, he's been waiting now week for them to get back to him. They can't even tell him when it'll turn up and what the price will be when it does. So, you know, these are the phone calls that we're having and certainly we're very, very keen to appraise the Federal Government of the situation. I'm also looking forward to our own time. I know right now most of our fertiliser supplies will be secure for the planting in the wind crop,

13:26but unlike fuel, where a fair percentage of our fuel, well, most of our fuel is actually distilled in Singapore, not in the Middle East, over half of the, you read that in poor to Australia, it's actually produced in the Middle East. So, I'm looking, you know, looking out and doing some homework to help. What do you read for the stomach pop? Yeah, that's a big issue, but you know where we can go? Charlie Mort, Mort fertilises. And this is the issue because the urea at the moment is just gone through the roof and there's businesses here in Australia where there is actually some tried and true alternatives. And this is the kind of thing that's going to have to happen. We need to look within our own backyard because at this present moment, urea is just, that could be a bigger issue than the fuel shorn. And that's, and it's been brewing for some time. Well, I think, I think we're very hopeful that the federal government will today or in the coming days, ease the situation on fuel and I certainly call on them

14:28to be very transparent about the situation in terms of where our reserves are at, what our daily imports are. We're literally, you know, ripped the band-aid off and explained to Australia what the situation is about fuel. That's certainly, we're certainly calling on them to do and to listen to people on the ground and they're saying that there's no fuel crisis yet. There's people who go to a fuel bales and they're limited in places like Bluff to two hundred dollars where the diesel. Now I can tell you that's not a lot of diesel and it's over two dollars a liter. The urea situation, however long-term, has a massive impact on Australia's security on the profitability and productivity of farming and it's something that I'm certainly trying to draw attention to in terms of, or draw the facts together and draw attention to, we understand right now, in short-term scenario issue. Other than prices, you say, prices are big issue, but availability is there. It's my concern is when we get to the back end of this year, if Australia hasn't saw alternative markets to source the urea from and the Middle East conflict is still under way or has still seen supply interrupted,

15:32then where are we at for a summer crop? And look, this season's going to be good season. Would he be? So we'd hate for farmers to be adversely affected in the back end of it. Yeah, and that's a really good flag as well. Sean, obviously a lot going on with the biosecurity and I just want to touch on this tick line quickly. I mean, I understand this is not in your remit, we talk about it a lot. It is something that probably is gone to the back blocks just a fraction at the moment, but we will see off the back of this rain and things heat up, another outbreak at the end of the year, is sure or sure, and we all know that. So how do we try in the short term to sort of a pee, some of the people, because the amount of phone calls I'm getting, I mean, renewables and tick lines at the moment are the two biggest things, right, for me. I'm hearing it now throw in fuel and urea. They're big issues at the present moment, but this tick line sort of, and you get it more than anybody,

16:33but are there discussions at least happening that would sort of resonate with people that we might see some sort of resolution or some sort of change. It's not going to happen overnight, but that could happen potentially in time. Look, there certainly is a lot of discussion to understand, and I think when we spoke last, we talked about this two separate issues. One is helping people deal with the immediate fallout, and I certainly, my heart goes out to those people who were on the free side of the line and have fallen over as ticky, getting them back on their feet and restoring them to clean is certainly something that should be prioritised and providing the necessary support to them, because they have a big job, and the whether it stays the harder you're right, the harder it'll be to eradicate the tick simply because mastering deadlines can be missed, Catholic can be missed, and the season to support the growth of ticks, you know, humid, wet environment, green grass, beautiful for breeding ticks. So I certainly do that.

17:34As we look long-term, I certainly had discussions with the Chairman of AgForce from a perspective of what do we do in terms of regulation, in terms of support. I know in serious conversations that I've had with the Minister, he's very keen to understand not only the impacts, but where the science is at with things like tick resistance, and what role if that plays so that we can ensure that we're using the right chemicals, that there is a number of conversations underway to look at the tick line issue, and I'm certainly received all manner of representations and phone calls myself about that. Dobbo and I still really advocate to ensure the integrity of the tick lines maintained for a host of reasons, and the number one is for the welfare of animals that are on the free side of the tick line, and the number two is to maintain market access for those people who live where they do, and should have the inherent right to be able to market their catalyst free with confidence.

18:36Yeah, it's so true. Sean, we appreciate it. Hope you get home today, mate. Obviously, and a lot going on across your electorate as well. No doubt you'll be out and about through that as well in the coming weeks. Thanks so much for being with us this morning, as usual, a big part of this show. Thanks, Dobbo. Good on you. We're going to take a break. This is Rural Queensland today across the Resonate Broadcast Network. Rural Queensland today on the Resonate Broadcast Network, plenty of rain throughout Queensland. Some serious flooding in different parts of Queensland, and that will obviously drive prices here at Roma and throughout the central. There won't be a lot of cattle moving this week considering just the weather. We're going ahead to New South Wales, and a great friend of this show has been high marsh from Jim Highmarsh and Sunsy. Join me this morning, where obviously to try and get a price update and seasonal update, Ben Highmarsh, a very good morning to you. Thanks for joining us for the first time in 2026 on Rural Queensland today. Morning, Dobbo.

19:37How are you? Good mate. Okay, snapshot on the weather. Obviously you'll be witnessing a lot of what is going on here in Rural and Regional Queensland. What's the season like in New South Wales? Southern New South Wales had a good break a week or 10 days ago, and pretty positive from sort of Sydney just directly west south of there, pretty good at the moment. Yeah, so obviously, and you know, that will bode well going into winter because the majority of your feed starts to come now with herbages and stuff like that, so it's ideal. Is there still warmth in the air or you are starting to see the change? The ground temperature and is pretty good, really good. So a lot of people are talking about doing grazing crops this year. So, but obviously that will depend on fertilizer and fuel and all those other factors I'm sure you've been talking about a fair bit recently. But yeah, it does seem to be a hint

20:37of a lot more grazing crops going in this year. Diesel is a huge issue we talked about it earlier today. How is that being, and what's the reaction of people lining up in New South Wales as is a panic like there is here in Queensland? Oh, look at the topic of everyone's conversation at the moment. I think every area is a little bit different with what's going on and their supply. Obviously, for more directly the cost of it, if you can get it, is there something that we're going to have to factor into? Yeah, it's going to be interesting and is something I hope that can get resolved sooner rather than later. We'll start with the storage of in New South Wales. We are going to see numbers sort of start to dry up a little because of just the flooding through the Mariner and the Western Downs. Where are we at with the store price in New South Wales at the moment? We'll start with Mossvale and through Yasson and Down to Walker in that market there.

21:38Look, the last 10 days have been very, very positive. Dobbo as far as the market has lifted and an inconsiderable amount in that restocking job. The prime job has been steady. It's a slow moving beast. It's pretty calculated. Whereas with the season, and as I mentioned earlier, that grazing crop and that sort of stuff, people, the fear of missing out, is you're on everyone's mind at the moment. Yeah, and that's the big thing. A lot of people don't just fully understand the enormity of this. But the numbers just, when they come, there is a real demand now with season that people will be chasing them. So, I mean, you've had a lot of Wiener sales. Are there still Wieners there at the present moment? Look, the Victorian Wieners have gone. Our start, sort of April May, a lot of our Wiener sales. I think the first one is Carcels got a pretty big one and they go second week, so they've advertised $35,000 cattle over the months for those Wiener sales there.

22:42We've got one in Yasson Friday as well with four, I think four or five thousand in that one. So, the supply is there, it's short term, but a lot of people have, with what was a pretty tough summer, a lot of people said, well, the market has been pretty solid all the way through and have gone early with it. Yeah, we've been out yardings on a weekly sales have been pretty consistent all the way through and market has been pretty strong even when it was dry. So, look, the Wiener sales will get going. They're sort of all quoting, well, anywhere from $5, $20 to $6 for Angus Wieners at the moment and heft is sort of $4 to $5 is where Angus effort, depending on weight and type, obviously pretty broad quote there, but that's sort of where most people are rolling in the yards expecting to pay and that's pretty early on. That's before any crop or grazing crops out of the ground or anything else. So, that's just, yeah, so to me, it's pretty positive, pretty potent.

23:43And a line's very much with this Southern Queensland market. I will ask about the feeder job because that's been the real shining light here in Queensland over the last eight to 12 weeks. Where is that job, is the demand for a feeder in your neck of the woods still very strong? Yeah, look, it was always out there, but I think the north was probably stronger or things being relative. You know, we were hovering that 470s, 480s for feeders there, yeah, three, four weeks to go. It's into the fives now. Yeah, the five-time, that's an Angus feeder, I quote. They're your heifers of the one, your feeder heifers of the ones that have really kicked, you know, they're high forwards, high forward, you know, four 60s to four 80s for a proper, you know, 50 Angus heifer feeder. And that's a tough one. That's a lot of money. We've seen a lot of the store job role

24:44and but the prime job, the cow job has been unbelievable. Where is that at in New South Wales? Because a lot of southern buyers coming, you know, and there is a lot, there is a lot of cattle heading to the south. What's your prime job like? And obviously off the back of what was a pretty, pretty horrific drought last year in Victoria and southern parts of New South Wales, I would have thought the numbers might have dried up from a prime perspective at the moment. Yeah, look there, you've prime steers and heavy heifers have been, you know, they're very limited in supply and they're pretty short, still hovering, you know, a carcass rate, carcass price to either side of $9. Just sub-9s at the moment. Cow jobs very strong. Say a strong is the strongest market for them at the moment. They're sort of, you're good prime cows making $4 just anywhere from $3.90 to $405, most quotes for a good heavy cow.

25:47The other, you know, really good indicator for these that the bulls are selling very well. Yeah, and that bodes well. What's this going to do? I mean, is there going to be the belief and you get an idea that southerners will go to Roma, will go chasing cattle up there or do you think there'll be enough over the next couple of months to sort out through there? Short term, it seems to be Northern New South Wales. Dubbo, you know, you're Tamworth, Gunnard-Hars, you know, pretty tight season there from all reports and yarding some solid numbers there. So they're just heading there, but, you know, with, as you said, once, once Southern Queensland gets, gets going again and things like that, it'll, I don't expect it to fall in the line with the rest of the rest of the New South Walesers market. Yeah, it's quite unbelievable where this job is at. We're going to see it, obviously, in the next couple of weeks. Obviously, when things start to dry out and we just know the enormity, there will be demand everywhere.

26:49It bodes well for the beef industry, despite the fact that there is well pressure coming from different angles, whether it's tariff or the crisis in Iran, that it would think the short term, things are going to go very, very strongly in the right direction, and that's obviously going to be some serious demand for prime cattle and for stool cattle heading into the winter. Ben, hi, Marsh, we really appreciate your time, mate. Thank you so much for giving us an update. Obviously, a lot of sales taking place in New South Wales at the moment after the dried out. We'll catch up again shortly. Thanks for being with us. Thanks, Dalai. Good on you. We're going to take a break. Come back 10th of March, Tuesday morning. This is Rural Queensland today with Ben Dolan. Rain are plenty. And as we said with Sean Dylan a little earlier, the big issues are the concern around Urea and obviously looking at the diesel situation. Ag for Scrains, President Brendan Taylor, who's a regular on the show, joins us this morning. Firstly, mate, you're a bit waterlogged, I'd suspect.

27:51In your neck of the woods, southern downs and western downs, very, very handy falls. Yeah, some big falls, mate. Yeah, and sure. A bunch of geese to Dalai, it takes it off, but less to Dalai, and then over through the south burnt. And there's an north burnt, possibly, a bit much up there. Since I'm pretty sure you're giving it flooding and some regions up there, which, unfortunately, we were done some damage. But in those dry patches to the south, but sort of got that 150 amazing, you know, fell over a big patch of pretty patched land. So that's changed the scenario for them looking out a bit. Obviously, we run some water inducing dams and we still want them enough to get a bit of pasture growth. But yeah, we're only six weeks out of sail from the start of the Winnicorp planning for all of those regions. So that's, that has changed our outlook dramatically. Yeah, but still being dry patched down, sort of going near the end of Texas and back towards Warwick, that's basically what nothing is trying. So fingers crossed for them down there

28:53because there's a big patch that's still pretty dry. What will this do for the industry? Just, you know, obviously, there'll be oats and there'll be early planning. But, you know, subsoil moisture in places, this has got a boat well. It does. It does. The elephant in the room or the wiring in the end, the concern and the uncertainty is one supply of affordable urea. I don't know what start of fertilizer and obviously the fuel suck is weighing out right in front of our eyes. And both of those are creating so much. I'm certainly, you know, people are really throwing balls in the air in the moment and going, or what does this actually mean? We could well be looking at urea. That's it for if it shows up in supply, and we really hope that it does. But we could be looking at urea in that $1,200 of ton range. That's the number that's been thrown about. That's not a concrete number, but that's a number I've heard.

29:53That's extraordinary high. We're seeing servos running out of fuel here and everywhere, which is a project. It's a very difficult. It's a bit of a minister balance keeps growing about all this supply while I'm not sure where it is because if it's there, we need to get it moving to the places it needed because, you know, we've got mung bean harvests probably three weeks to a month away and my part of the world is gotten up in the CQ. The cotton pick hasn't even started on the down. So cotton picking probably a month away or three weeks to a month away. And then six weeks into the, you know, the earliest of the winter sowing. So, yeah, questions need to be asked. And they are being asked. And I think the minister's been found wanting here. Oh, I might, there's no question about it. So what a rag force. Obviously, you would have written in and we spoke with Sean Dillon, but the concern around the diesel is a massive issue. So I'll get to the area and there's some alternatives and I mean that with Charlie Moritz, fertiliser and a few other things that are taking place.

30:54But can I just ask around what is a rag force as positioned with these little shorties? Because that's a huge, huge impact on a lot of your members. Yeah, it is. I look forward to meeting with minister today. Later on, the staff's an in and that is top of the agenda. But I can't come back to minister balance comments, this fuel supply here. And look, email will be right, the fuel here. But yes, there's been panic buying that's probably exacerbated what we're saying. But we've set ourselves up for this. Like we're just in time on a lot of fertiliser and fuel and a whole bunch of other stuff that we use and medical stuff, whatever, the boats coming in, the boats coming in. The industry's been saying for years and years and years that what if the boats stop? What if the boats stop? What if there's conflict here? What if there's an interruption in the shipping somewhere? And here we are.

31:55We've been banging on about this for years and years and we've just got to get really serious about one manufacturing here, two refining here. We've got all the resources to make this stuff here, but ridiculous energy policies have just been that so expensive that no one wants to do it here because it's too expensive. So we can't refine it, but we can't refine it and have fuel here on this shore and we're not going to store it as well. This is the, this is the Armageddon that everybody's been talking about, correct? Yeah, the industry's been talking about this for years and the what if the boats stop? What if this happens? What if the boats stop? What if there's conflict between whoever and whoever and the shipping chat and we're just so vulnerable to massive price influxes of like $1,200, that is not sustainable for a cropping business tip to work on? If we get no, yeah, like this is the worst case scenario,

32:56if we get no, yeah, whatever crop anyone's going, but in a cropping sense, you yield the fall by conservatively half, like you literally yield potential of what we should be going and we normally would grow under a reasonable season, would fall by half. What's a fair price on, what's a fair price on you, either? What's a fair price on you, Reed? Look, 7,800 bucks a ton, even, yeah. Even historically, historically you look back, you know, you were, was, you know, $4,500 a ton, but I don't, you get too much objection if we could get you, on a regular basis of, and that 7,700, 100 bucks a ton. You know, even before this went down overseas, we were looking at, you were here, you know, just above $900 and about $900 a ton, and that's a big number, too, like, but, you know, nitrogen is a building block alive, although one of the building blocks alive and without it, nothing bloody grows.

33:56You take it out of the equation and you literally, it cut yields in half in one year. You know, there's a million plus set of cattle, pigs, chicks, whatever that each grain, that will be grow, and supply that we're lucky to have such a vibrant domestic market for a grain in the feedlot and the feeding sector, if we can't produce enough white grain, well, they're in strife, too, like, it's the flow on effects of not having an affordable nitrogen source for us to grow, what we grow is massive. It's really massive. And it's a game changer for what we do and what we believe in here. So the likes, like, more fertiliser that's being produced, all these kinds of things, that's the alternative now, isn't it, Brendan? And like, you know, there's taken some time, it's not the equivalent to a rear, but there's going to be these other products that come into the market because it's just being priced out.

34:57Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, the more products are amazing. Don't have, or the ones that I'm saying, yeah, they don't have that, you know, that 48% in in them yet. That's, you know, that's the way, if you have, if you were to get in harder, some earlier, you know, 90% in, but yes, we've got some alternatives, but I know the time. But yeah, the one option we've got, and this goes back to what I said before, the one option we've got in Queensland in New Guinea is we can grow chickpeas, which are a legume that don't require an nitrogen to grow because they fix their own. But that doesn't solve the problem of the people that we generally supply wheat and barley to in a feed sense or into our bread, you know, milling markets for bread and parsley. But if we all grow chickpeas, well, there won't be any wheat and barley for the, for the markets that we generally supply. So it gets, it gets shit,

35:59no matter which way you look at it. If we just, you know, if nitrogen become none of oil or all cost prohibitive to that point because you would be producing a product that you can't make any money out of, if you were buying 12 or 14 hundred dollars a ton for the product to make it grow. Yeah, it's such an interesting decision to make as a grazier and as a farmer and farmers are obviously looking at everything at the moment with fuel. Price wise quickly. She was, something's got to change there. I know how frustrated you guys are at with it. We've talked about it a lot. Can you see anything on the horizon? In relation to urea? No, price of grain. Oh, got, look. Well, that's an urea I just painted out before. If we, you know, chickpeas are pretty flat. Right, chickpeas have been training about that $600 a ton, right? If everyone switched over to grow chickpeas, well, you would see a huge rally in the price of wheat and barley

37:00because it would become, ensure it's flying a little bit that might be grown would be, would be intense demand for it. Or if, in the end of it's not getting what a urea at all, yields are going to be sabotaged by not having available nitrogen. So, you assume there will be a shorter supply putting pressure on the market upwards. So that flows on into everyone that buys by their wheat and barley. But yeah, look, Sorgan market's been really strong in the last bit. Again, that's another story that's down the track by that's our next summer crop, but there's still a lot of Sorgan to come off yet. But Sorgan's been training in their 370 into Brisbane. So the export demand for Sorgan's really good. Farley's sort of, I think, training in a 320 or 330 expound at the moment, they're not big numbers, but they're solid numbers. But yeah, there's much bigger potential now

38:00across the growing regions after this good fall or rain. But we're going to need some follow-up and, but I think yeah, voices, one thing everyone was worried about and yes, there is still some big dry spots for this house. But yeah, the fuel and urea thing, that's the thing that my phone is ringing about at the moment. They're just having a huge impact on the cost of production. Whether and or whether we can get it at all. And the longer this Friday conflict goes on overseas, the worse it likely to get. I appreciate you giving me some time this morning. Thank you, Brendan Taylor from Agforce Cranes. There are some worrying circumstances going on with the industry and some of the key factors that keep it sustainable, but appreciate your time this morning and we'll stay in contact. Thanks, Josh. We're going to take a break. This is Rural Queensland today. Well, that's it from us here this morning at Rural Queensland today. Hope you've enjoyed the show.

39:01Certainly have. Jesus of worrying times. Chris Bowen has got a deliver. Jason Matthews will join you next. We'll keep you updated over the next couple of days with the disaster and our thoughts with everybody through the Burnett, the South Burnett and also around Bunderburg and the North Burnett as well. Our thoughts will be with everybody through our Queensland as well as the water subsides. A lot to get through in the next couple of days. Have a great day. Stay safe on the roads for God's sake. If it's flooded, forget it. And remember when the weed is ripe, keep the headers rolling in the paddock. Jason Matthews to join you next. Rural Queensland today will be back from 9am to morning. We'll see you later.