Take a look around the 100-odd commercial trade displays at the grainfed industry’s BeefEX conference held recently, and it was clearly evident that permanent shade structures are now big business across the feedlot sector…Read More
Jon Condon and Eric Barker, 05/11/2026
Analysis highlights how the cost of servicing rural debt has increased in the space of a single year…Read More
James Nason, 05/11/2026
This episode looks at the sale of 4000 Brahman cattle from the NT to the domestic market, concerns about the Bureau of Meteorology’s long-range forecasting and whether the new environmental laws make grazing cattle on grass a form of land clearing…Read More
Eric Barker and Lydia Burton, 05/11/2026
Livestock exporters have backed a package of reforms designed to strengthen the industry’s capacity to respond to changing global markets, regulatory demands and emerging opportunities…Read More
Beef Central, 05/11/2026
The Graeme Acton Beef Connections group toured Tasmania at the end of October, visiting dairy-beef projects, grass-finishing, processing, aquaculture, horticulture, cropping and seedstock businesses. For the participants, it was a masterclass in how to turn grass and water into food and income…Read More
Millie Unthank, 05/11/2026
Australian agtech company AirAgri believes that every person deserves to go home safely at the end of the day. This simple objective is what is driving its latest approach of farm safety integration of the familiar WhatsApp platform with its established safety and compliance platform, with the potential to extend access through emerging satellite-to-mobile services. ..Read More
Sponsored Content, 02/11/2026
JBS Australia’s Southern division is hosting an industry-first cattle performance challenge, tracking 600 Angus steers from grass backgrounding through grain finishing to carcase performance and eating quality in the chillers…Read More
Beef Central, 05/11/2026
An increase in the supply has resulted in two sales being held this week. Today a prime-only sale attracted 2187 head. The regular buyer panel plus two live exporters were operating in a stronger market throughout. ..Read More
Beef Central, 05/11/2026
Recent rain and the resultant lift in cattle prices has lifted seasonal confidence across large areas of eastern Australia, but rural property agents say the approaching Christmas break could delay much of the resulting listing activity until early 2027…Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, 04/11/2026
Below the NSW/Queensland border, property agents are anticipating a rise in listings and sales activity either side of Christmas, in response to recent solid rain and a lift in the cattle market..Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, 04/11/2026
If you looked at the above map earlier this year and expected a dry Spring across the Eastern Seaboard, than you should have known that it is still giving 20-40 percent chance of exceeding the median rainfall…Read More
New research into the nutritional composition of beef is revealing enormous differences between individual steaks, challenging conventional assumptions about grassfed and grainfed production and raising the prospect of a new way to measure and reward beef quality…Read More
James Nason, 04/11/2026