After trading within a steady 300-310c/kg liveweight range for four months, live export steer prices at Darwin are moving higher as tightening late-dry season supply coincides with rebuilding new season..Read More
James Nason, 02/10/2024
The future of publicly-listed Wellard Limited, once Australia’s largest livestock exporting company, will be decided by a strategic review, the company announced today…Read More
James Nason, 23/09/2024
Incoming Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious pledge to provide free milk and lunches to all school children is shaping as a catalyst for Brazil to gain long-awaited access to the country’s large import market for live cattle…Read More
129th Edition: September 2024: Vietnam’s beef prices are falling due to increased imports, with local farmers facing challenges from low-quality cattle and poor feed | Indonesia’s demand for live cattle exports remains strong, with heightened competition for shipping space | The Philippines has temporarily suspended beef imports from the UK due to concerns over mad cow disease (BSE), aiming to protect local cattle and public health…Read More
Dr Michael Patching, 13/09/2024
The chair of Australian livestock shipping company Wellard has urged livestock industry participants to actively stand up for the live cattle trade, which he says is now only “one catalyst” away from the same outcome as the live sheep export trade…Read More
James Nason, 03/09/2024
Export feeder steer prices have firmed slightly in recent weeks, as the trade sails into a quieter period with supply and demand in relative balance following a busier first half of 2024..Read More
James Nason, 28/08/2024
The Keep the Sheep campaign to reverse the legislated phaseout of live sheep exports by sea will hold its first national rally outside Parliament House in Canberra next month…Read More
Beef Central, 22/08/2024
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been called on to explain comments last night in which he appeared to denigrate the entire live export sector in front of more than 500 agricultural industry stakeholders, and to recognise the importance of agricutlure to Australia’s crucial relationship with Indonesia and it’s new incoming President…Read More
James Nason, 21/08/2024
About 80 breeding sheep in a small air freight shipment to Indonesia’s capital Jakarta have reportedly died en route over the weekend, the Australian Livestock Exporters Council has reported…Read More
Beef Central, 19/08/2024
Australian cattle exports for the first seven months of 2024 are 21 percent higher than during the same period last year, export data from the Department of Agriculture shows…Read More
Beef Central, 15/08/2024
Northern Territory Livestock Exporters Association (NTLEA) members have already shipped more than A$260 million worth of cattle this year from their home port of Darwin, reflecting improving supply and demand conditions across the northern Australia cattle export trade in 2024…Read More
James Nason, 14/08/2024
128th Edition: August 2024: Anticipation and planning builds as the Indonesian Free Lunch program looks to increase local milk production by importing live dairy cattle | Philippines looks into local production of FMD vaccines | Demand for live export in key markets remains strong…Read More
Dr Michael Patching, 13/08/2024