Illegal trespass by 120 activists on a Queensland feedlot property on the weekend raises serious questions for the beef industry and agriculture in general, the Australian Lot Feeders Association said in a statement this morning…Read More
Despite rain in the north and big tonnages of grain arriving from the west, feedgrain markets from southern Queensland to Melbourne were paying as much or more for grain this week as they were last week…Read More
Liz and Henry Wells, March 22, 2019
Continuing dry conditions in summer-cropping areas, increased grazier demand and firming free-on-truck markets in Brisbane and Newcastle have lifted wheat, barley and sorghum markets by up to $10 per tonne in the past week…Read More
Henry and Liz Wells, March 18, 2019
In our second projection for the 2019 year, our latest 100-day grainfed trading budget has produced a negative $60 result on a typical 450kg flatback feeder steer, entering a Darling Downs feedlot today and closing-out after 105 days on feed in late June. Higher weightgain cattle are at, or very close to breakeven. Here’s how we arrived at the figures ..Read More
Jon Condon, March 12, 2019
Limited grower selling has helped the sorghum market maintain values in the past week, but wheat and barley prices had a turbulent week as millers and traders worked through stocks…Read More
Henry and Liz Wells, March 11, 2019
A Melbourne-based investor family with strong business connections in North Asia has taken a strategic stake in the Rodgers Creek feedlot, which operates under the name B Feeders, near Warwick on Queensland’s southern Darling Downs…Read More
Jon Condon, March 7, 2019
Cattle on feed across Australia during the October-to-December 2018 quarter decreased by 15,977 head or 1.4pc from the record set in the September quarter, according to the latest quarterly grainfed industry survey…Read More
Beef Central, March 7, 2019
Southern wheat values were $15/t lower this week on trade liquidating longs, while the southern Queensland sorghum harvest passed two-thirds and cattle feeders await cotton picking to alleviate extreme high cottonseed prices…Read More
Liz Wells and Henry Wells, March 4, 2019
While sorghum’s harvest reality turns grimmer, transhipments of Western Australian grain arriving at every east coast port from Geelong to Brisbane continue to secure supply to livestock, weakened world prices allowing feedgrain values to drift lower this week…Read More
Guest Author, February 22, 2019
A Victorian company has been fined $30,000 for constructing an unauthorised cattle feedlot at Warradarge in Western Australia’s Mid-West region…Read More
Beef Central, February 15, 2019
Continuing hot and dry conditions are dimming yield prospects for sorghum in New South Wales and southern Queensland, where WA grain is supplying much of the feed market’s needs. ..Read More
Liz and Henry Wells, February 1, 2019
A softer feeder cattle market since early January has contributed to an improved – albeit still loss-making – result in Beef Central’s latest 100-day grainfed trading budget calculated this morning…Read More
Jon Condon, January 31, 2019