The live-cattle export industry should be an example of how Australia and Indonesia can build extensive and mutually beneficial partnerships, however it is an example of what can go terribly wrong when international diplomacy is conducted on the run…Read More
Ross Taylor, 13/03/2013Very large numbers of cattle were drawn from across western Queensland, as good
competition pushed prices up by 8c/kg for better quality medium weight yearling steers, according to the NLRS…Read More
Australia’s national beef exposition, Beef 2012, is a step closer to delivering the cattle industry a valuable export trade boost, with the announcement today of a $2.2 million Federal Government grant.
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Public approval for Government financial support to agriculture in drought remains at high levels, according to the findings of the latest weekly independent opinion poll conducted by Essential Media…Read More
Beef Central, 12/02/2014Queensland producers can now access up to 75 per cent of eligible costs for water infrastructure activities with the Australian Government’s contribution of up to $7 million to the Queensland Government’s Drought Relief Assistance Scheme…Read More
Beef Central, 12/02/2014The committee established to drive the implementation of the 2010-2014 Australian Animal Welfare Strategy is one 16 advisory groups scrapped under cost-cutting measures by the Federal Government…Read More
Beef Central, 11/11/2013Australian Livestock Exporters Council chief executive officer Alison Penfold responds to independent MP Andrew Wilkie’s latest legislative push to ban live exports…Read More
Alison Penfold, chief executive officer, Australian Livestock Exporters Council, 17/05/2013The cost to industry of the widely-acknowledged rundown in sown pasture productivity across northern Australia has been estimated to be about $17b over the next 30 years…Read More
Russ Boadle, 28/05/2012An unexplained 10pc calf loss from when females are preg-tested in-calf through to weaning has been identified as a major cause of production inefficiency across northern Australia…Read More
Russ Boadle, 22/05/2012By putting in simple management practices including monitoring an animal’s body score condition, northern beef producers can tighten an inefficient 12-month calving pattern into a 7-month cost-effective breeder management system…Read More
Russ Boadle, 18/05/2012Despite spending $500m on improvements and upgrades since arriving in Australia in 2007, the cost of production of beef here, relative to major international competitors, has actually worsened rather than improved, a JBS spokesman told a Beef 2012 audienc..Read More
Jon Condon, 17/05/2012When you are a national identity and the owner of a livestock property, there is a certain inevitability about where conversation will lead when you wander into the judging ring of Australia’s largest stud cattle show. ..Read More
James Nason, 16/05/2012
