Australian meat processors are working to minimise the risk of abattoirs being forced to close in the event of one or more employees testing positive to COVID-19…Read More
Meat & Livestock Australia’s proposed 2020 genetics forum, which was to have taken place in Adelaide on 25-26 March, has been postponed due to coronavirus…Read More
The rapidly spreading economic and trade impact from coronavirus will be a story of two hemispheres, global meat analyst Simon Quilty suggests…Read More
Saleyards around the country have started limiting access to livestock auctions under new measures aimed at curbing the potential spread of the coronavirus or COVID-19…Read More
Uncertainty over the impact that coronavirus will have on international meat demand is contributing to a dramatic 20-30c/kg decline on Queensland direct consignment grid offers this week, and up to 50c/kg in parts of NSW…Read More
Domestic red meat retailers including butchers and supermarkets are experiencing an unprecedented boom in sales turnover, as the latest impacts of coronavirus work their way through the community. The trend is being driven by two main factors, contacts are telling Beef Central..Read More
The Northern Territory Cattlemens’ Association has made the tough decision to postpone its popular annual conference amid increasing national efforts to limit the potential spread of coronavirus…Read More
Meat processors and retailers have welcomed the Federal Government’s coronavirus stimulus package announced yesterday, emphasising the impact that it will have on the already struggling post farm-gate meat industry…Read More
As the World Health Organisation overnight declared the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, export beef supply channels into China are showing encouraging signs of freeing-up this week – but the disease impact is now being seen more broadly in Australia’s other export beef customer countries…Read More
PROTEIN 2020: The fallout from the African Swine Fever epidemic could result in longer lasting gains for Australian beef when current impacts to pork production subside, MLA market information manager Scott Tolmie told last week’s Protein 2020 conference in Dalby…Read More
