MLA market information manager Ben Thomas in a statement said local cattle prices are currently "moving in a different direction to those globally." However, the reduction in slaughter rates will help ensure more calves are born next year, with increased beef production to follow in 2018. "All ...
” MLA analyst Adam Cheetham told Beef Central. “In fact the re-positioning in global beef prices is as much to do with lower US and South American cattle prices, as it is about price rises in Australia,” he said.
Nevertheless, South American suppliers have also benefited from currency shifts, with sharp drops in the Brazilian Real and the Argentinian Peso keeping cattle prices competitive and making low-cost beef accessible to global markets. The potential exists for the price spread between Australia and South...
Skin Demand is weak, and tanneries are not interested in higher prices. In the past few weeks, the pricing of raw leather has not changed. In Queensland, as in the past, the price of 35/37 kilograms of cow calf / bull skin without lice area (TFA) is stable at $1.93 per kilogram. ...
the cyclical nature of beef prices are well recognized (=-=Griffith and Alford, 2002-=-), while the removal of the wool Reserve Price Scheme in 1990 and the existence of the wool stockpile throughout the 1990s would also have had an impact on the stability of prices that wool growers mi...
"Mightn't be a big fan of the The Smiths, but I am a great fan of families in WA, NT and FNQ [Far North Queensland] who rely on our $2bn live export industry," Joyce wrote on Twitter on Monday afternoon. "Record cattle prices for families in regional Australia -- sorry I don'...
Australian Agricultural Company Limited is an Australia-based integrated cattle and beef producer. The Company’s principal activities include distribution of branded beef into global markets; breeding, growing, feedlotting and trading of its animals, and ownership, operation, and development of pastoral...
With farmers selling excess cattle over concerns that they cannot afford to feed them, beef retail prices have plunged from 19.5 Australian dollars (14.17 U.S. dollars) per kilogram (kg) to 19.17 Australian dollars (13.93 U.S. dollars) per kg, exacerbating the financial situation for struggling...
Beef, lamb and kangaroo Australia has an enviable reputation as one of the top beef producers in the world. Our cattle have plenty of space to graze and are often “finished” on grain to ensure the most tender and tasty meat possible. Look out for speciality varieties, such as Black Angu...
“Our cattle prices are now way out of step with overseas. Something has to give,” one beef trader told Beef Central this morning. “The international meat market outlook is as bad as we have seen it in years,” a large multi-site, multi-state processor told Beef Central. “Flat deman...