Lotfeeding

Feeder cattle market: British X in demand as all grids rise

It seems a rising tide is lifting all boats in the feeder market, with grids increasing across most categories over the past fortnight…Read More

Eric Barker, 07/07/2025

Feedgrain Focus: Mixed ideas about Vic, SA hold sway

Mixed conditions for crops and grazing in south-eastern Australia are weighing on ideas about new-crop pricing and volume. ..Read More

Liz Wells, 07/07/2025

Rising construction costs delay new Mort & Co CQ feedlot

Rising construction costs have delayed Australia’s second largest lotfeeder’s plans to build a world class new feedlot in Central Queensland…Read More

Lydia Burton, 01/07/2025

Lotfeeders developing best practise guidelines for managing extra cattle during drought  

Australian feedlots have prided themselves for decades on providing a vital drought mitigation tool during tough seasons, but they now operate permanently near capacity. What happens the next time seasons turn? Lotfeeders have been working on this topic behind the scenes. ..Read More

Jon Condon, 30/06/2025

Feedgrain Focus: Cautious optimism builds in south

Amid ongoing drought-feeding demand, bright prospects for the northern crop and cautious optimism for the south, prices are largely unchanged this week…Read More

Liz Wells, 30/06/2025

Feeder cattle market: Tight supply driving southern feedlots to lighter cattle

Two speeds have emerged in Australia’s feeder cattle market, with prices increasing in the south pushing some lotfeeders towards lighter cattle to fill pens and a steady flow of cattle contiuing in the north…Read More

Eric Barker and Lydia Burton, 23/06/2025

Grainfed beef showcase reflects industry’s surging momentum

The first of a series of grainfed beef showcases held at a top Brisbane restaurant last week underlined the momentum in grainfed beef production and export that’s happened in recent times.  Here’s what people at the event had to say  ..Read More

Jon Condon, 23/06/2025

Feedgrain Focus: Wheat kicks on offshore rally

A rally in offshore wheat prices has spread to local values and boosted traded volumes amid cautious optimism about south-eastern Australia’s season…Read More

Liz Wells, 22/06/2025

Modest $10 loss in grainfed trading budget, latest breakeven shows

Typical flatback feeder steers entering a shortfed program this week and closing in early October would deliver a small $10 loss, Beef Central’s latest 100-day grainfed trading budget calculation suggests…Read More

Jon Condon, 19/06/2025

Feedgrain Focus: Prices ease on southern break

The much-anticipated arrival of rain in SA and Vic over the weekend has seen prices soften and the southern new-crop market kick into gear…Read More

Liz Wells, 16/06/2025

Grainfed cattle carbon emissions 56pc lower than previous estimates

THE Federal Government has revised the feedlot industry’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, following the release of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report 2023. In a landmark moment for the..Read More

Beef Central, 12/06/2025

SA feedlot for sale after China live export plans dissolve

A South Australian feedlot previously part-owned by a Singaporean company with a bold, but ultimately unsuccessful vision to live export grainfed cattle to China for slaughter, has been placed on the market…Read More

Lydia Burton, 10/06/2025

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