From his quad bike on a farm track with his dog Rufus by his side, Sukma Bowling sees kilometres of pristine coastline and hectares of lush pasture. There’s not another person in sight. He helps run a remote farm on the southern tip of King Island in Bass Strait, halfway between Tasmania and Victoria. The […]
Record livestock prices are forcing some abattoirs in New South Wales to cancel shifts or shut down operations in the short term. JBS shut down its plant in Scone last Friday due to a shortage of livestock while Southern Meats in Goulburn has shut down its plant this week. The Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) […]
Australia’s red meat industry is well positioned to respond to a global demand for protein, according to Meat and Livestock Australia manager Graeme Yardy. Mr Yardy said while there had been a greater discussion around meat substitutes, Australians still enjoyed meat. the population in Australia continues to buy red meat and enjoy it as part […]
T’s the Australian red meat industry’s big, bold promise to the world. To be carbon neutral by 2030. Through its own initiatives, offset its significant methane production – 129.3 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents – by the end of the decade. But is what’s become known in the livestock industry as CN30 achievable? According to […]
Australia’s sheepmeat exports hit a record 465,351 tonnes in 2019 headed by a 42 per cent hike in shipments to China. China dwarfed the United States as our major overseas sheepmeat customer last year taking 71,223 tonnes of lamb (up 35pc) and 81,460 tonnes of mutton (up 48pc). The US lifted its lamb imports by […]
Consumers across the country can now buy premium grassfed lamb from Tasmania in a deal which supermarket giant, Coles, says is a first for an Australian retailer. Coles will offer the premium lamb under its Graze label in more than 800 supermarkets for 10 months of the year and expects to buy 100,000 lambs from […]
Lamb prices pushed through the $300 barrier this week despite fears about the impact of coronovirus on sheepmeat exports to China. Extra heavy lambs fetched $305 (estimated to dress 40kg) at Bendigo on Monday but that price was beaten the next day at Ballarat when heavy shorn lambs sold for $310. The Eastern States Trade […]
THE strength of global demand for beef and the fact Australia exports three quarters of its production means trade access and market diversity will be a key agripolitical goal for cattle producers this year. However, it is only one of many moving parts and big challenges that producers and their representative organisations will have to […]
AS supermarkets continue to increase their dominance of retail beef and lamb sales, agrifood marketing experts say understanding the dynamics driving that places producers in the best position to identify opportunities. The latest survey data shows supermarkets now account for 70.2 per cent of the fresh meat market. Prominent market research company Roy Morgan’s January-released […]
RAIN will rule supreme in terms of dictating the cattle market story and the shift to herd rebuilding in 2020, despite international factors including extremely robust demand packing a big punch. This is the picture painted by the latest outlook from key provider of market information, Meat & Livestock Australia. In what would arguably be […]
