Australian farmer, live export and sheep sector leaders walked out on Minister for Agriculture Murray Watt at the CropLife agricultural industry budget breakfast in Canberra this morning in protest at the Albanese Government’s proposed phaseout of the live sheep trade by 2028…Read More
Terry Sim, 15/05/2024
Australian cattle exports have recorded the strongest start to a year in four years with 60,251 cattle exported in April bringing total volumes for 2024 to date to just over 207,400 head…Read More
Beef Central, 15/05/2024
125th Edition: May 2024 – Strong international representation at Beef Australia | Price differential between Australia live feeder price and Indonesian live feeder price maintains a wide gap |
Heatwave scorches Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines…Read More
Analysis of official data offers revealing insights into the size and makeup of Australian livestock export companies and their operations since 2005, including the fact that only 27pc of the 57 companies that have held export licences for sea freight since that time are still active today, as Dr Michael Patching reports…Read More
Dr Michael Patching, 14/05/2024
The Animal Justice Party has confirmed it did a preference deal with the Albanese Government to secure its policy to phase out live sheep exports by sea, just months after Agriculture Minister Murray Watt claimed at Senate Estimates he had no knowledge of such deals…Read More
The agriculture industry has united in outrage at the Federal Government’s four-year plan to phase out live sheep exports by sea – with many saying the Government has treated the industry with contempt and pandered to animal activists basing arguments on emotion rather than science…Read More
Eric Barker, 13/05/2024
The live export sector is enjoying its most optimistic trade outlook in years, but industry representatives are concerned about ongoing examples of lacking Federal Government support for the $1.3 billion sector…Read More
Beef Central, 10/05/2024
The livestock export industry has introduced a virtual reality (VR) training tool as the latest innovation in its support for animal welfare training in Indonesian and Vietnamese abattoirs…Read More
Beef Central, 02/05/2024
Australia recorded its biggest month of cattle exports to Indonesia almost four years in March, delivering 62,041 cattle to Indonesian lot feeders during the month…Read More
Beef Central, 16/04/2024
South East Asian countries are seeing the ramifications of government decisions which impact food staple flows as Indonesia experiences soaring beef and cattle prices in the aftermath of its early 2024 delay to release import permits for live cattle and beef imports, and the China pig and dairy industries struggle against increased imports and slowing consumer consumption…Read More
Dr Michael Patching, 12/04/2024
A point not widely reported following the deaths of about 150 Australian cattle on a livestock shipment to Indonesia last week is that about 50 cattle from the same property also died at the same time in the pre-export yards near Darwin…Read More
James Nason, 02/04/2024
The cause of the deaths of over 100 Australian cattle on a livestock shipment to Indonesia last weekend, and a further 50 cattle from the same cohort which simultaneously died at an export quarantine facility near Darwin, is still yet to be determined, officials say…Read More
James Nason, 28/03/2024
