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Red ink eveywhere in dry-weather impacted 16914 head AuctionsPlus offering

Dry weather in many cattle producing areas and a pessimistic BOM forecast continued to drive prices lower in AuctionsPlus online trading this week…Read More

Beef Central, 25/09/2026

Lotfeeding

Innovation packed into massive new 200,000 head Nebraska feedyard

Imagine a 200,000 head cattle feedyard processing more than 500,000t of corn each year, where the heavily-automated feedmill is manned by just a single employee. It sounds like a piece of fiction speculating about the grainfed industry’s distant future, but in reality its already exists, on the sweeping plains of Nebraska in the US, as explained by project co-founder Kee Jim…Read More

Jon Condon, 25/09/2026

Lotfeeding

Christopher Pyne’s two tried and true methods for surviving a crisis

‘Complacency is poison’: the beef industry has a good story to tell, invest in that reputation and get out there and sell it, former Federal minister Chris Pyne tells BeefEx 2026. ..Read More

Lydia Burton, 25/09/2026

Lotfeeding

BeefEx 2026: The serious worry Canberra is struggling to understand

Feedlot operators received the shock their lives earlier this year, when the Strait of Hormuz was shut and fuel distributors told them they were unable to fill their tanks…Read More

Eric Barker, 25/09/2026

The Weekly Grill

S6 EP31: North American lotfeeder Kee Jim on the design, innovation and execution behind Nebraska’s new 200,000 head feedlot

In today’s episode of The Weekly Grill host Kerry Lonergan sits down with big-thinking US lotfeeder, Dr Kee Jim, a keynote speaker at BeefEx 2026, who outlined his company’s massive greenfield feedlot development in Nebraska will will accommodate 200,000 head when the final stage is completed next year…Read More

Beef Central, 25/09/2026

Market Check launches first-of-its-kind grain marketing academy for growers and agribusiness

Grain marketing advisory firm Market Check has launched a new education platform aimed at demystifying grain markets for anyone involved in the ag industry, from growers through to bankers, agronomists, feedlotters and graduates just starting out in agribusiness…Read More

Recruitment: How one-on-one meetings with staff can boost performance

Effective management stems from quality relationships and open communication with staff. Yet so many managers and employers avoid regular one-on-one sit-downs and meetings with their personnel, blaming factors such as not enough time, not finding them beneficial or having to discuss complaints or sensitive topics that they would prefer not to…Read More

Beef Central, 25/09/2026

Markets

Dubbo sale 24 September 2026: Dry conditions lift yarding to 6000

Numbers rose by 300 with large supplies of plainer cattle from the far west. Most feeder steers and heifers fell 12–18c/kg, while cows eased by up to 18c/kg…Read More

David Monk, NLRS, 25/09/2026

Lotfeeding

Politics shoots down any chance of Aussie live cattle imports into the US – despite its beef herd at 70-year lows

Jon Condon, 24/09/2026

Lotfeeding

2026 Young Lot Feeder of the Year and Australian Feedlot’s of the Year winners named

Lydia Burton, 24/09/2026

The Week in Beef - Podcast

Podcast: BeefEx Special | Award winners share success | Why these newcomers built a feedlot

Lydia Burton and Eric Barker, 24/09/2026

Lotfeeding

ALFA awards new Life Membership at BeefEx 2026

Beef Central, 24/09/2026

News

Meet the producers taking local beef straight to customers

Roger Desailly, 24/09/2026

Markets

Dalby sale 23 September 2026: Price trends erratic in larger 7195 head yarding

Beef Central, 24/09/2026

Industry Dashboard

Carbon Trading Market

Aust. Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) - $/tonne of CO2 equiv.

Today

38.20

Source: Jarden

$A / $US

Updated 7am daily

Today

0.7013

Source: NAB

ASX Market Index

26 Sep 2026 (updated 10am daily)

Company	Price	Trending
Elders	$8.96
Australian Agricultural Co	$1.52
Graincorp	$7.29
Ridley	$2.12
Woolworths	$36.64
Wellard	$0.06

Source: ASX

Beef Kill

Eastern States, weekly

Last Week

150172

Source: MLA's NLRS

EYCI

Eastern Young Cattle Indicator, c/kg

Today

918.3

Source: MLA's NLRS

90CL Cow

Imported 90CL cow beef price. Landed US, Ac/kg CIF

Today

988

Source: Steiner Consulting, MLA

Live Export

Live export feeder steer prices ex Darwin (c/kg liveweight)

Today

450

Source: Trade contacts

SOI

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Today

-13.89

Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Feeder Steer

NLRS-reported yards (feedlot buyers only); 0-600kg, 0-2T, c/kg LW

Today

521

Source: Feeder Steer

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Christopher Pyne’s two tried and true methods for surviving a crisis

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Flat-rate levy vs percentage-based: Which producers would pay more?

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Recruitment: How one-on-one meetings with staff can boost performance

Beef Central, 25/09/2026

Podcast: BeefEx Special | Award winners share success | Why these newcomers built a feedlot

In this episode: We head to BeefEx on the Gold Coast to talk about the role of feedlots in national security, catch up with some of the industry’s award winners and talk to sme new entrants into the lotfeeding industry…Read More

Lydia Burton and Eric Barker, 24/09/2026

Meet the producers taking local beef straight to customers

A consumer appetite for locally raised beef is creating growing opportunities for small family farming beef brands, but the market segment is facing a shared challenge – securing reliable access to meat processing to enable the growth continue…Read More

Roger Desailly, 24/09/2026

EPBC Roadshow: AgForce says uncertainty placing unfair burden and legal risk on producers

Rural landowners are being forced to carry too much legal and financial risk when making routine property-management decisions under the Federal Government’s recently reformed environmental laws, AgForce says…Read More

James Nason, 23/09/2026

Markets

Red ink eveywhere in dry-weather impacted 16914 head AuctionsPlus offering

Dry weather in many cattle producing areas and a pessimistic BOM forecast continued to drive prices lower in AuctionsPlus online trading this week…Read More

Beef Central, 25/09/2026

Dubbo sale 24 September 2026: Dry conditions lift yarding to 6000

Numbers rose by 300 with large supplies of plainer cattle from the far west. Most feeder steers and heifers fell 12–18c/kg, while cows eased by up to 18c/kg…Read More

David Monk, NLRS, 25/09/2026

Dalby sale 23 September 2026: Price trends erratic in larger 7195 head yarding

Prices and demand was erratic depending on type and quality. Most of the yearling steers could not maintain the levels of the previous sale…Read More

Beef Central, 24/09/2026

Roma sale 22 September 2026: Numbers drop by 3000 head

While an increase in the number of heavy grown steers saw extra competition from all the usual exporters, a reduction in the number of feeder steers over 400kg and a plainer yarding of yearlings, saw prices for younger cattle ease on last week…Read More

Beef Central, 23/09/2026

A new transport pathway for MSA will now allow more grassfed cattle to access the world-leading grading system, with eligible cattle still MSA-compliant after journeys of up to five days…Read More

Lydia Burton, 22/09/2026

Iconic wool operation cashes in on premium grassfed beef market

From Western Queensland to Northern Victoria – Lansdowne Pastoral Company has been supplying a high-end grassfed program in Victoria for three years. ..Read More

Lydia Burton, 17/09/2026

Are your phosphorus decisions delivering profit?

Are you getting the best value out of your fertiliser? Producers can take the guesswork out of soil testing and fertiliser decision making on pastures with a five-step phosphorus (P) tool…Read More

Beef Central, 10/09/2026

Processing

Weekly kill: Fuel and transport price rises curbing southern buyer interest in the north

Rapidly elevating fuel prices are now having a significant effect on slaughter cattle buying patterns, with the sharply rising transport cost keeping some southern Australian buyers out of the Queensland market…Read More

Jon Condon, 22/09/2026

New MSA transport pathway opens opportunities for grassfed cattle

A new transport pathway for MSA will now allow more grassfed cattle to access the world-leading grading system, with eligible cattle still MSA-compliant after journeys of up to five days…Read More

Lydia Burton, 22/09/2026

Iconic wool operation cashes in on premium grassfed beef market

From Western Queensland to Northern Victoria – Lansdowne Pastoral Company has been supplying a high-end grassfed program in Victoria for three years. ..Read More

Lydia Burton, 17/09/2026

Tallow’s smooth path through Gulf conflict

Australia’s world-leading trade in animal tallow is unlikely to be threatened by clashes in the Gulf, and could even be boosted by the conflict, according to an industry leader speaking ahead of the Australian Renderers’ Association’s International Symposium which started in Melbourne on Tuesday. ..Read More

Sue Webster, 16/09/2026

Lotfeeding

Innovation packed into massive new 200,000 head Nebraska feedyard

Jon Condon, 25/09/2026

Christopher Pyne’s two tried and true methods for surviving a crisis

‘Complacency is poison’: the beef industry has a good story to tell, invest in that reputation and get out there and sell it, former Federal minister Chris Pyne tells BeefEx 2026. ..Read More

Lydia Burton, 25/09/2026

BeefEx 2026: The serious worry Canberra is struggling to understand

Feedlot operators received the shock their lives earlier this year, when the Strait of Hormuz was shut and fuel distributors told them they were unable to fill their tanks…Read More

Eric Barker, 25/09/2026

Politics shoots down any chance of Aussie live cattle imports into the US – despite its beef herd at 70-year lows

Politics is the biggest hurdle ahead of any prospect of Australian feeder or breeder cattle being live exported to the US to help fill the void left by a US beef herd at 70-year lows, a speaker at yesterday’s BeefEx conference says. ..Read More

Jon Condon, 24/09/2026

Live Export

SE Asia Report: Thailand working on plan to ship 100,000 cattle per month to China

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 cattle back in 2015…Read More

Dr Michael Patching, 16/09/2026

Cattle shipments and prices rise, defying Indonesia’s headwinds

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?..Read More

James Nason, 11/09/2026

SE Asia Report: An early flicker of life in a stalled market

First-half Australian cattle exports fell 29 per cent and the squeeze is now biting downstream as Indonesian feedlots discount stock and ask for extended payment terms, while exports to another market in July represent potential green shoots in a previously large market…Read More

Dr Michael Patching, 01/09/2026

Nominations open for 2026 Livestock Export Young Achiever of the Year

The search is on for the next generation of leaders who will help shape the future of Australia’s livestock export industry…Read More

Beef Central, 28/08/2026

Trade

Wagyu entries dominate 2026 Sydney Show Fine Foods branded beef competition

Queensland’s Stockyard Beef has been recognised at the 2026 Sydney Royal Fine Food Awards, with its premium Wagyu brand, Stockyard Black, earning the grand champion beef title for the fourth consecutive year…Read More

Beef Central, 17/09/2026

August beef exports at 128,000t bear signs of tariff impacts

Recent imported beef tariff impacts in China and the United States are clearly evident in Australia’s August beef export statistics…Read More

Jon Condon, 04/09/2026

Retail red meat prices strongly impacted by livestock value, report suggests

Australian retail red and white meat prices have taken two very different directions between 2025 and 2026, with beef and lamb recording strong increases at both the livestock and retail levels, while pork and chicken prices have barely moved, a recent report has found…Read More

Beef Central, 02/09/2026

Trade restrictions starting to reshape global beef flows – Rabobank

The triggering of a range of trade restrictions – primarily from China – is beginning to reshape beef flows around the world, rural lender Rabobank says in its latest quarterly Global beef Report…Read More

Beef Central, 31/08/2026

Genetics

Weekly genetics review: Are you buying the bulls you planned to buy, or the bulls the sale persuaded you to buy?

This week’s genetics review divides typical bull buyers into six distinct categories. Which do you fall into?..Read More

Genetics editor Alastair Rayner, 22/09/2026

Weekly genetics review: Larger catalogues test the depth of the spring bull market

While there are still plenty of significant bull sales to be held over the next few weeks, there is now enough data on hand to draw some conclusions on a bull selling season that has in general been more rewarding than what many expected when it opened…Read More

Genetics editor Alastair Rayner, 15/09/2026

Moving beyond breed boundaries – what could multibreed evaluation change?

What does MLA’s proposed multibreed genetic evaluation mean for traditional breed societies? It’s one of the questions explored by genetics editor Al Rayner in this week’s genetics column ..Read More

Genetics editor Alastair Rayner, 15/09/2026

Information hub launched for next-gen multibreed beef genetic evaluation

Beef producers, bull breeders and other industry stakeholders can now access a dedicated online resource explaining the development of one of the most significant advancements in the nation’s livestock genetics system with the launch of MLA’s new Multibreed Beef Genetic Evaluation Information Hub…Read More

Beef Central, 15/09/2026

Ag Tech

User-friendly drone technology targeting weeds hovers into view

Land managers are closer to harnessing the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to help them manage Australia’s large and diverse exotic weed pest challenge…Read More

Beef Central, 28/08/2026

Technology to bolster on-farm biosecurity compliance

For biosecurity plans to be successful, they must be followed by everyone who enters a property. Technology has been developed to help make this easier…Read More

Lydia Burton, 07/08/2026

Virtual fencing delivers 99pc sheep, 96pc cattle compliance in US grazing trial

A year-long grazing trial in the United States has demonstrated high rates of compliance for cattle and sheep managed with virtual fencing technology…Read More

James Nason, 08/07/2026

High-tech simulator boosting safety on Queensland farms

A machinery simulation unit will be deployed to schools and feedlots across Qld as AgForce Training works to boost farm safety…Read More

Beef Central, 08/07/2026

AgProperty Central

Weekly property review: Recently completed sales

Meldora expands with Riverina aggregation | Willow Tree grazing makes $7m..Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, 23/09/2026

Ogilvies relaunch Te Angie Station and Forest Lodge with expectations around $30-$35m

A new expressions of interest campaign will launch next week for the Ogilvie family’s two highly developed grazing properties in the New England region of northern New South Wales…Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, 23/09/2026

Movement at the station: Properties for sale in Qld

Stuart Ramsey’s Channel Country station heads to auction | Campbells list dress circle Augathella country | $13.5m for CQ calf factory | The Bluff lists for $30m+..Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, 23/09/2026

Movement at the station: Properties for sale in NSW

$50m for historic Eastern Riverina holding | $9m for Wellington’s Warrengunyah | Scale and versatility in NSW’s CW | $11m for blue ribbon Yass property | Multi-million dollar sale tipped for Sydney’s Echo Vale..Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, 23/09/2026

AgCarbon Central

Opinion: A bad time to be a tree in Queensland

James Henderson is a producer from Monto in Central Queensland and a co-founder of carbon and natural capital advisory IsidoreAg. In this contributed article, he argues that the Federal Government’s new environmental laws combined with a tightening of carbon and natural capital opportunities is pushing landholders to clear more trees than necessary…Read More

James Henderson, 08/09/2026