Emerging markets in North America and Korea are signalling an undeniable appetite for Australian lamb as consumption trends continue to grow for what was traditionally looked upon as a niche product. And according to the latest Meat and Livestock Australia figures sheepmeat exports to both Korea and North America are experiencing healthy growth despite the.
Constant wet falling across the Western Downs is solidifying an already excellent start to the grain growing season in the region. AgForce Grains president and Warra farmer Brendan Taylor said the more than 100mm of rain received in late June, early July had filled the 1.2 metre moisture profile on the deep black soils on.
Rural Bank has this week released its Australian agriculture mid-year outlook 2021 report, analysing the performance of six industries – cattle, cropping, dairy, horticulture, sheep, and wool, and the broader economy. Queensland has had a mostly favourable outlook, but the mouse plague spilling over the border and the pandemic induced labour shortage have been major.
For 19-year-old Anna McGuirk, an interest in repairing machines on the family farm has turned into a career as a trainee technician. Miss McGuirk’s family run an Angus cattle operation at Nangus in New South Wales’ Riverina region. “I grew up on a farm so I was always helping repair the machinery and I just.
A campaign to get Australians to buy from businesses in communities hit by drought has boosted sales by $5 million. The Buy from the Bush campaign connected Australians with select small businesses across the country that had felt the brunt of natural disasters. Businesses experienced a 300 per cent jump in sales, one in five.
Australia’s flock rebuild is speeding up, predicted to reach 68.1 million head after falling to its lowest on record in 2020 of 64 million head. And by 2023 the national flock is expected to be 75.4 million head. This is according to Meat and Livestock Australia’s (MLA) 2021 sheep industry projections half year update released.
The upwards movement in Australia’s wool market continued this week with the Eastern Market Indicator hitting its highest point of the season. The EMI gained 28 cents for the week, closing at 1343c per kilogram, clean, narrowly beating the previous high of 1342c/kg reached in April. The last time the EMI was at a higher.
Tight supply across many cattle-producing regions combined with red hot demand for animal protein is pushing both cattle and beef prices internationally to records. While the local drivers creating that situation will eventually correct, Rabobank’s team of experienced analysts believe the market has seen a permanent step-up. The big volumes now needed by China on.
Cotton is set to become a major crop across northern Australia, with landholders gearing up to invest in fibre production, and deliver significant nutritional benefits to the long-established cattle industry. Speaking at the hugely successful Northern Australia Food Futures conference in Darwin last week, Tipperary Group general manager David Connolly said the construction of a.
The Canadian-backed NSW family farming company Australian Food and Fibre has won the tender to buy pioneering cotton farming and ginning business, Auscott. AFF, already a major cotton growing and ginning operation based at Moree in North West NSW, adds a further 40,000 hectares of country in the state’s Namoi, Macquarie and Murrumbidgee valley’s to.
