Beef Central produced more than 1500 articles about the Australian beef and cattle industry in 2012, ranging from daily news updates to opinion pieces from industry experts and in-depth analysis.
Here we have drafted-out 100 that generated particular interest, reader comment and feedback throughout the year.
In the past 12 months Jon, James, Roger, Cath and the team have worked hard to establish Beef Central as the leading source of reliable, accurate and relevant news for Australia’s beef and cattle industry, and as the most targeted and cost-effective advertising platform for companies that service the industry.
In 2012 we have expanded our editorial resources to include regular contributions from respected industry journalists including Tom Dawkins in Southern Australia and Steve Kay in the United States, and have introduced several new initiatives including a recruitment section and a mobile version of the website to make our news more accessible to people on the move (click here to learn more)
We take this opportunity to wish our valued readers a Happy Christmas and hopefully wet new year, and look forward to keeping all industry stakeholders up to date and well-informed with our free daily industry news service in 2013.
Beef Central will take a short publishing break over the Christmas/New Year period. Our daily news emails will resume from Monday, January 7, however our website will continue to be updated with breaking news over the next two weeks.
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Cattle production
Grassdale’s record breakers bend the ADG curve
Does pen shade, coat colour matter in summer?
2012 bull buying season: It’s a numbers game
From claypan to green feed: carbon flows in action
Putting Victoria’s Hopkins River beef brand on the map
UltraBlacks form basis for ‘third generation’ Lake Nash outcross
Key role for Santas remains in an evolving Kidman business
Measuring Angus genetic progress
World’s largest composite program delivers for NAPco
Newly identified traits key to future northern profitability
Brahmans could become ‘hardy foot soldiers’ for meat quality genetics
Carcase merit, profit in young bull meat better than expected
Lotfeeding
Host of factors contribute to high feedlot gain performance
Veteran lotfeeder’s achievements saluted with live membership
Angus high-performers under JBS feedlot program KPIs
Has the tide turned on grainfed profitability?
Prime City feedlot closure sign of the times
Processing
T&R rides-out southern supply cycle bumps
Calm cattle have a dark side, researchers find
Bindaree departures signal unrest
Carbon tax burden sweeps across the beef supply chain
Small country abattoirs making a comeback
Big get bigger in global processing consolidation
Technology: Very Fast Chill process adds product flexibility
Productivity: Cootamundra’s robotic carcase cutter wins innovation award
Sous vide offers great potential to re-value secondary beef cuts
US grinder collapses under weight of LFTB
Former Innisfail meatworks to be ‘exported’
Gympie a snapshot of a changing industry
Domestic markets
Woolworths warns over industry’s MSA segmentation claims
McDonald’s counter-cyclical growth presents beef supply challenge
Supplier, customer relationships key to Coles’ retail strategy
Opinion: are supermarkets making cattle producers pay for retail price wars?
DR Johnston’s Sydney cattle centre takes meat wholesaling to an epic scale
MSA grading cracks two million head milestone
Packaging: ‘eco-friendly’ trays hit retail mainstream
Butchers fight back in latest retail market survey
Woolworths retail share grows under MSA momentum
Comment: is there a future for warehouse retailing?
Export diversion pressure looms in domestic beef market
Export markets
‘Other’ export customers increasingly shaping export picture
Satisfying US consumers craving for indulgence on the cheap
Export to US lift, as big hole emerges in US beef production
The Batistas' canny buying touch
MAC Asia Pacific’s role in filling insatiable global burger demand role
Australia seen as key McDonald’s beef source during tight global supply
New players lead global trade in 2012
Long term beef demand picture positive: global analyst
Mexico’s drought impacts on Australian lean trim prices
Major non-packer exporters announce merger
Breakthrough in EU grainfed quota distribution process
Live export
Santori builds China’s largest feedlot
Indonesian lotfeeders rebuild after export ban
Why northern abattoirs can’t replace live exports
Indo FMD-risk: scare mongering or genuine biosecurity threat?
Tapping Indonesia’s market potential
Govt must act to avoid northern crisis: Warriner
Indonesia tests “breedlots” as a self-sufficiency solution
Import cuts trigger crossbred push in Indonesia
Indonesia one year on: a stunning change
Budget papers reveal live export legal action
Industry
Opinion: 10 key challenges facing northern beef industry
Anyone for a Reuben Junior sandwich for lunch?
RSPCA should applaud saleyards: agents
Saleyards, fire-branding, dehorning on RSPCA hit list
Cattle producers face nervous wait after Qld BJD detection
Former Cattle Council chief calls for MLA changes
Higher global meat prices likely over next decade: report
Super Butcher saga ends in liquidation
Can beef warm up Australia’s coldest relationship?
Processors on alert for $1m worth of stolen cattle
Northern debt burden unlikely to ignite fire sales
Grassfed producers want bigger slice of MLA pie
Industry wary over US E.coli claim
How will CSG manage the salt time-bomb?
Aussie farmers apply Hadrick’s social media message
Northern financial management issues exposed
Meatless Mondays and baseless claims
Sustainable beef on menu at roundtable seminar
Droughtmasters dominate Beef 2012 trade show
Getting social all about cost-effective promotion
MLA’s mission to ‘sell the sizzle’ on secondary cuts
Last ditch effort to save Super Butcher from collapse
The cost of promoting a positive public image
Oversupply signals prompt word of caution from meat chief
New foreign minister strong advocate for Voiceless
Forum gives endorsement for grinding meat futures
Thames Pastoral signs contract on Tanumbirini
Moray sale heightens “two-speed economy” claims
What is a living area these days?
Govt says foreign investment controls adequate
Rural life
Beef industry’s rally-call for the Foodbank cause
Ag’s inspiring generation next
Irony of blood disorder not lost on Wagyu beef producer
Year of the Farmer – reaffirmation or requiem?
Stock squad legend hangs up his spurs
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