Weekly property review: Recently completed sales

Talwood’s Rangelands sells prior to auction | Heytesbury adds NT’s Carbeen Park to its portfolio | Richmond family purchases tightly held Gulf breeding country | NQ’s Springfield Station sells with 7000 cattle | NSW govt secures Broughton Vale Station for a national park..Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, 12/02/2025

Movement at the Station: Recent property listings

Tasmanian property owned by Foster family could raise $30m+ | Rapisarda Enterprises offloads NQ breeding country | Dawson Valley grazing powerhouse | High rainfall New England grazing | Gwydir Park’s offers value in NSW’s New England | Breeding & finishing country in northern NSW | NT’s Rocktear Park lists for $15m | Baldry’s The Wattles offers breeding, finishing & fodder cropping | NSW Western Land Lease offered for $3.3m..Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, 12/02/2025

Chris Howie: Southern dry bares its teeth

The markets are well poised to supply some price upside to those with quality and weight. However, sub soil moisture and surface water is now becoming an issue, Chris Howie writes in this month’s wrap up of cattle and sheep market developments and opportunities…Read More

Chris Howie , 12/02/2025

Teys launches new Cattle Connect paperless platform at Clermont producer day

Teys Australia will launch the company’s innovative Cattle Connect livestock platform during its upcoming Clermont Beef Producer Information Day in Central Queensland…Read More

Beef Central, 12/02/2025

Where will the EYCI be by year’s end? Join our reader competition

There’s major bragging rights and some fantastic prizes at stake for the winner of Beef Central’s Eastern Young Cattle Indicator guessing competition, asking readers to predict where the industry benchmark will sit at the end of 2025…Read More

Beef Central, 10/02/2025

Labor dumps its controversial biosecurity levy legislation, after industry backlash  

In a big win for Australian agriculture, the Federal Government has today fully withdrawn its legislation for a proposed Biosecurity Protection Levy that would have cost the industry another $50 million each year…Read More

Beef Central, 12/02/2025

The other livestock capacity issue no-one is talking about

A lot of attention has focused on whether Australia’s labour-constrained meat processing sector can handle the increased numbers of cattle expected to come forward in 2025, but another less-talked-about capacity issue is also raising its head as the year unfolds…Read More

James Nason, 12/02/2025

Aus red meat sector closely monitoring Trump tariffs: MLA MD

MLA managing director Michael Crowley told this week’s Armidale Feeder Steer School that the industry is keeping a close brief on the movements of the United States government, as President Donald Trump threatens tariffs to trading partners across the world…Read More

Eric Barker, 12/02/2025

Roma sale 11 Feb 2025: Market firm to dearer

The yarding was once again shaped by condition with several high-quality steer and heifer lines going under the hammer…Read More

Beef Central, 12/02/2025

Weekly genetics review: Setting your own critical mating weight – a key strategy for heifer development

In tighter-managed spring-calving herds, February is often the month where weaning and heifer selection decisions take place. In recent years there has been much more recognition of the variation within breeds and as result recommendations for heifer management have been realigned as a result. Part of that has focused on the concept of Critical Mating Weight (CMW). ..Read More

Genetics editor Alastair Rayner, 11/02/2025

Weekly kill: Most direct consignment grids steady, as supply and demand align

Recent monsoonal weather across areas of North and Northwest Qld has had little impact on cattle slaughter operations over the past week – with the exceptions of Townsville and Mackay which both lost days. With the return of hot weather, forward over-the-hooks cattle commitments in Qld are now well advanced, with some plants now accepting bookings from early March…Read More

Jon Condon, 11/02/2025

University study uses ‘sample of five’ to make sweeping claims about PALM meatworker conditions

A university research project suggesting overseas labourers working in Australian red meat processing are exploited  has been widely condemned by industry as being inaccurate, selective and agenda-driven…Read More

Jon Condon, 11/02/2025

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