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The Thai agriculture ministry announced on 17 June that it is targeting the collection of Thai beef cattle for export by ship to China at 100,000 head a month, or 1.2 million head a year, through a quarantine hub to be built at Bang Saphan - a privately owned deep-sea port that Australian exporters used to discharge ca
Global trade is facing further disruption with another major shipping route putting restrictions in place, which could have a significant impact on Australia’s export of red meat to the east coast of the United States and Canada.
Higher supply often correlates with lower prices, yet despite monthly cattle export volumes climbing to a year-high in August, the price of live export steers ex-Darwin climbed to 440c–450c/kg for good lines. So what is driving the apparent contradiction?
With an El Nino shaping up to be one of the strongest on record and the Southern Oscillation Index taking a sharp dive into the negative, it is fair to say the talk of dry weather is starting to heat up. Southern Qld producer Vicki Mayne runs through some of the indicators she is looking at.
Nestled between the Expedition and Carnarvon Ranges, the Arcadia Valley certainly lives up to the Greek origins of its name, ‘ideal paradise’.
Palgrove expand with CQ’s Panhandle | Macka’s secures flagship Liverpool Plains holding | $23.75m for far west NSW’s Borrona Downs | Capella family expands with NQ’s Sayah Park | Jackson Ag offloads NSW’s King Ranch
With Middle Eastern conflict again causing fuel prices to skyrocket, livestock transporters are calling on the Federal Government to ensure its proposed Australian Fuel Security Reserve delivers diesel where it is actually needed - in regional, rural and remote Australia.
A 101,600ha Central Queensland cattle enterprise with almost a century of operating history has been brought to market, with the sale of Laglan Pastoral Co's assets near Clermont.
Wheat and barley prices have fallen in the south in the past week, while northern rates have firmed as quality and production prospects deteriorate for the southern Qld crop.
Prices in virtually all young cattle and breeding female categories lost ground in online trading this week, where listing numbers surged 67pc to 17,500 head.
A North Queensland livestock transporter is calling for big changes to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) after his fleet was recently grounded for two weeks.
The appointment by Australian Country Choice of a full-time Agriculture Education and Engagement Officer is an industry-first initiative that Chief Executive Officer Anthony Lee is urging other corporate beef and agriculture businesses to adopt within their own organisational structures.
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