The Pay Off with Sylvia Jeffreys

Charlie Blomfield: Fuel to Food Crisis?

May 19, 2026·29 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Are we sleepwalking into a national food crisis? A war in the Middle East, a global shipping bottleneck, blown-up fuel and LNG plants are contributing to a global fuel crisis. But beyond fuel, it's the effect on fertiliser supply that might shock Australians if the crisis isn't solved sometime soon. Farmer and social media star Charlie Blomfield joins Sylvia to talk about the massive geopolitical forces shifting the goalposts out in the bush. Plus, why the government’s latest headline-grabbing supply deals are just a "drop in the ocean".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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