No one likes extra taxes but Australian farmers are major beneficiaries of a robust well funded Biosecurity system…Read More
We should not face the rest of this fire season, and the ones yet to come, with rules and regulations that prevent communities from being able to properly prepare to defend themselves from the harsh realities of life in the bush, writes Lachlan Clark from the Insitute of Public Affairs…Read More
Lachlan Clark, 10/11/2023As custodians of 51% of Australia’s agricultural landmass, and the single largest contributor to the nation’s $95 billion farm sector, the grass-fed cattle industry is an economic and social powerhouse that has, for too long, had its voice muffled and diluted through its own inability to work collaboratively in advocacy and representation…Read More
Cattle Australia Director and Interim CEO, Adam Coffey, 16/10/2023The release of Australia’s defence strategic review in April was a defining moment. But for a document that points squarely at the need for every part of Australia to pitch in, it was disappointing that the unclassified version didn’t mention food or agriculture, contributor Andrew Henderson says…Read More
Andrew Henderson, 13/10/2023The current situation in Indonesia is already having a huge impact on Australian producers in the north, and underlines an ongoing failure by Australia to understand how Indonesia, and Asia in general, works, writes Dr Michael Patching in this opinoin piece for Beef Central. ..Read More
Dr Michael Patching, 06/09/2023The way Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the Australian Government are approaching cattle methane does not align with how the natural world functions, writes farmer and Carbon Grazing principle author Alan Lauder. ..Read More
Alan Lauder, 30/08/2023A lack of collection of retail price data means producers have no information on what consumers are paying and what should be a fair price for their livestock, writes NSW producer Andrew Dunlop in this opinion piece…Read More
Andrew Dunlop, 04/07/2023The green policy is illogically limiting the amount of food available to civilisation in an environmentally destructive way, and the mathematics of their policies are even more concerning, NSW cattle producer George King writes in this contributed opinion piece. ..Read More
George King, 09/06/2023As the season has changed so has the feel around pricing, Chris Howie writes in this month’s wrap of cattle and sheep market trends from around Australia…Read More
Chris Howie , 04/04/2023As protein producers, we have 98 percent of the population who we should be engaging with…Read More
George King, 23/03/2023FORTY-three years of history as Australia’s national grassfed cattle producer representative body formally ended with a simple vote of the members of Cattle Council of Australia present at its final annual general meeting this morning…Read More
James Nason, 12/12/2022Despite his work with the livestock industry to reduce environmental impacts, Professor Frank Mitloehner has recently been singled out for attack in “coordinated hit pieces” by the New York Times and Greenpeace…Read More
James Nason, 24/11/2022