State farm organisations have backed the first major review of the $5-per-head cattle transaction levy in two decades, but say any proposed changes must be backed by detailed business cases demonstrating clear benefits for levy payers…Read More
James Nason, 10/09/2026
More than eight in 10 producers have maintained the same herd intentions they reported in April, signalling ongoing confidence across the beef industry…Read More
Beef Central, 10/09/2026
In this episode: Climate mate VIcki Mayne talks about what she is looking at this wet season; Colliers Agribusiness Rawdon Briggs explains the rush of sales in the northern property market and Howard Yelland Award winner Pete McGilchrist reflects on his career…Read More
Eric Barker and Lydia Burton, 10/09/2026
The University of Oxford this month announced that international trade in cattle products – beef and dairy – accounted for 29 pecrcent of global carbon loss. However, a drill-down shows that Australia is a very small part of that tally…Read More
Sue Webster, 10/09/2026
Cattle Australia has completed a constitutional review with several changes to its constitution passed at an extraordinary general meeting on September 1…Read More
James Nason, 09/09/2026
Why has Australia never properly measured or paid for carcase yield? There is potentially $375 million a year on the table, hidden inside carcases that nobody is measuring.
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Nationals leader Matt Canavan is calling on the Labor Government to support Senator Ross Cadell’s motion today to investigate the impacts of large-scale renewables on agricultural landholders and rural, regional and First Nations communities…Read More
Beef Central, 09/09/2026
Australia’s Angus and Red Angus breed organisations will come together from 1 January, creating one unified organisation representing Angus cattle and breeders across Australia…Read More
Beef Central, 09/09/2026
From land ownership models to farm safety, Nuffield Australia’s latest crop of scholarship recipients have officially been announced. ..Read More
Beef Central, 09/09/2026
“Someone out there should know or have seen something, which will lead us eventually to the location of where these sheep have gone and the culprits responsible.”..Read More
Lydia Burton, 08/09/2026
James Henderson is a producer from Monto in Central Queensland and a co-founder of carbon and natural capital advisory IsidoreAg. In this contributed article, he argues that the Federal Government’s new environmental laws combined with a tightening of carbon and natural capital opportunities is pushing landholders to clear more trees than necessary…Read More
James Henderson, 08/09/2026
Why do beef producers adopt – or reject – agtech? Graeme Acton Beef Connections program member Millie Unthank this month launches a national producer survey as part of her research project, to find out.
This month marks the official launch of my national producer survey as part of it.
The survey is the centrepiece of my project titled Is Agtech Worth It? How Values Define Value…Read More
Millie Unthank, 08/09/2026