The current situation in Indonesia is already having a huge impact on Australian producers in the north, and underlines an ongoing failure by Australia to understand how Indonesia, and Asia in general, works, writes Dr Michael Patching in this opinoin piece for Beef Central. ..Read More
The way Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the Australian Government are approaching cattle methane does not align with how the natural world functions, writes farmer and Carbon Grazing principle author Alan Lauder. ..Read More
Alan Lauder, 30/08/2023
A lack of collection of retail price data means producers have no information on what consumers are paying and what should be a fair price for their livestock, writes NSW producer Andrew Dunlop in this opinion piece…Read More
Andrew Dunlop, 04/07/2023
The green policy is illogically limiting the amount of food available to civilisation in an environmentally destructive way, and the mathematics of their policies are even more concerning, NSW cattle producer George King writes in this contributed opinion piece. ..Read More
George King, 09/06/2023
As the season has changed so has the feel around pricing, Chris Howie writes in this month’s wrap of cattle and sheep market trends from around Australia…Read More
Chris Howie , 04/04/2023
As protein producers, we have 98 percent of the population who we should be engaging with…Read More
George King, 23/03/2023
FORTY-three years of history as Australia’s national grassfed cattle producer representative body formally ended with a simple vote of the members of Cattle Council of Australia present at its final annual general meeting this morning…Read More
James Nason, 12/12/2022
Despite his work with the livestock industry to reduce environmental impacts, Professor Frank Mitloehner has recently been singled out for attack in “coordinated hit pieces” by the New York Times and Greenpeace…Read More
James Nason, 24/11/2022
Northern Australian cattle producer, LSD AUSVETPLAN writing group member and former CCA president Markus Rathsmann warns that more work is needed to develop pre-incursion strategies to minimise the risk posed by an outbreak of lumpy skin disease, and why an immediate vaccine supply for LSD is needed…Read More
Markus Rathsmann, 07/11/2022
The key to achieving what we need is greater democracy, and Cattle Australia will deliver this – Once it becomes the new peak industry body, it will have a model where any Australian grass-fed cattle levy-paying producer can join, vote, and run to be on the board, writes Cattle Council of Australia president Lloyd Hick…Read More
Lloyd Hick, president, Cattle Council of Australia, 01/09/2022
The new Agriculture Minister needs to intervene to ensure the grassfed cattle industry reform process gets back on track to deliver the united, democratically elected and properly resourced peak body grass fed producers need, writes former CCA president Markus Rathsmann in an opinion piece today…Read More
Markus Rathsmann, 31/08/2022
The High Court of Australia has provided some overdue guidance in relation to whether animal rights activists are entitled to use hidden cameras to expose alleged cruelty on farms and other facilities in NSW…Read More
Trent Thorne, Hamilton Locke, 12/08/2022
