Continuing to import Australian cattle into Indonesia makes no sense until adequate vaccine supplies are available to protect them immediately on arrival, Dr Ross Ainsworth writes in this month’s South East Asia report…Read More
Beef Central has pulled out five major accounting considerations with carbon projects…Read More
A safeguard that studs should seriously consider as FMD stalks Aus | Heifers come off the boil | The value of processor grass programs | 3G phase out repeating bad old days of analogue shutdown for country areas | Disease concerns add to pressure for national sheep EID rollout | Bull and ram sales are here already | A day out at the Hawker races..Read More
With confirmation of the 2022 Federal election result and a new Ministry sworn in this morning, Beef Central looks at six key issues of pressing importance to the agriculture sector as the Albanese Government takes up the reins in Canberra’s corridors of power. ..Read More
Australian livestock producers should be ‘alert, but not alarmed’ over the looming threat of FMD and/or Lumpy Skin Disease, but all should consider developing a comprehensive biosecurity plan, RMAC chair John McKillop told a Brisbane gathering on Friday. Mr McKillop provided a sobering account of the growing potential risk and financial impact ‘in the billions’ on Australia from an LSD/FMD incursion out of Indonesia…Read More
Australia’s chief vet Dr Mark Schipp and his deputy will visit Indonesia again this week to meet with senior government officials and discuss animal health and biosecurity issues. The recent detection of FMD in Indonesia, following on from an earlier outbreak of Lumpy Skin Disease highlighted increasing animal disease risks in our region and the importance of biosecurity cooperation to protect Australia…Read More
Experts say further research is needed to understand the potential role Australia’s large feral pig population could play in spreading a disease such as Foot and Mouth Disease if an outbreak occurs here…Read More
With multiple biosecurity threats in neighbouring countires, Cattle Council of Australia is urging all producers to make sure they are alert and have an up to date farm biosecurity plan…Read More
The Australian beef industry has been urged to “get its house in order” around timely decisions to sell livestock as Foot & Mouth Disease sweeps through the Indonesian archipelago…Read More
Australia exported 37,913 cattle in April, according to latest DAWE data, taking total numbers shipped so far in 2022 to 164,107 head, 47 percent below the five-year-average for the first four months of the year…Read More
