A weakening Australian dollar and more hot and dry weather for North America’s northern wheat regions have lifted export bids for nearby and new-crop grain this week…Read More
Liz Wells, 23/07/2021
Commercial feedlots across eastern Australia are reporting particularly poor cattle feeding performance this winter, as persistent wet and cold conditions weigh heavily on average daily gains and rates of ration consumption…Read More
Jon Condon, 22/07/2021
A record 19 entries have been received for the Australian Lot Feeders Association’s Young Lot Feeder of the Year 2021 Award, to be announced at the upcoming ALFA SmartBeef conference to be held at Dalby in October…Read More
Beef Central, 20/07/2021
Markets have softened in the past week with traders more active on selling than growers who are busy spreading urea and booking new-crop canola…Read More
Liz Wells, 19/07/2021
A group of 35 agriculture curriculum teachers and their assistants got a better appreciation of how a typical Australian grainfeeding business operates during a visit to Smithfield feedlot near Proston in southern Queensland this morning…Read More
Beef Central, 15/07/2021
New-crop wheat and barley prices have softened in the past week and grower selling has increased as its yield prospects consolidate.
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Workplace Health and Safety Queensland is investigating an incident involving phosphine gas which resulted in the hospitalisation of a truck driver…Read More
Liz Wells, 09/07/2021
Three imported mules from the US are about to go to work in a pilot program at Mort & Co’s Grassdale Feedlot in an unconventional approach to improving safety outcomes for pen riding and cattle movement duties…Read More
Feedgrain markets have traded steady to softer in the past week, with rain in northern NSW tightening logistics and helping to support values…Read More
Liz Wells, 05/07/2021
Nearby northern barley bucked the softening trend this week in values as widespread rain and weakening offshore markets allowed the feedgrain market to fall…Read More
Liz Wells, 25/06/2021
Downgraded sorghum is pushing its way into some northern feed rations as barley values firm, and trucks remain hard to get for domestic consumers amid rain which has made on-farm access difficult…Read More
Liz Wells and Henry Wells, 18/06/2021
Pens should start to fill in Australia’s latest ‘greenfield’ commercial feedlot in the NSW Southern Riverina region within the next two months. Victorian Wagyu beef producers Nick and Vicki Sher are behind the new venture – the first commercial feedlot to be established from scratch in NSW since the construction of the 5000-head Conargo feedlot in 2018…Read More
Jon Condon, 17/06/2021