Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic a team of 35 staff members has been working in complete lockdown in Bali to ensure full traceability and animal welfare standards are maintained for Australian cattle exported to key supply chains…Read More
Melbourne lamb, mutton and veal exporter Cedar Meats is expecting most of its staff will have been cleared from COVID-19 quarantine before its scheduled re-opening on 18 May…Read More
The cancellation of this year’s Royal Queensland Show has prompted some unusual changes, including plans announced today to run the event’s popular led steer competition – the largest in Australia – as a carcase-only event this year…Read More
Market uncertainty and instability brought on by COVID-19 was clearly evident in Beef Central’s latest 100-day grainfed trading budget calculated this morning. The end result is a record forecast loss of $212 for our typical flatback heavy feeder steer entering a Downs feedlot today, and closing-out in early August…Read More
Demand will be driven mainly by the course of the viral infection across Indonesia but the current situation appears from relatively encouraging, Dr Ross Ainsworth reports in this month’s South East Asia report…Read More
Red meat industry stakeholders and agriculture students will have access to latest insights into the development of new technologies for the evaluation of meat eating-quality, in a new webinar series being launched next week…Read More
Victorian abattoir Cedar Meats was not initially considered an exposure site for COVID-19 until late last month, despite its first worker being diagnosed with coronavirus on 2 April…Read More
Banks are juggling tightened lending parameters, drought’s legacy and COVID-19 as credit is sought to buy and run properties in northern NSW amid a buoyant outlook for agriculture…Read More
Brooklyn (VIC) sheepmeat, goat and veal abattoir Cedar Meats is planning to resume operations on May 18, despite battling the biggest COVID-19 cluster in the nation, currently numbering 45 cases among staff…Read More
Australia’s April beef exports to all markets declined somewhat – but not as much as what some trade identities anticipated, in the wake of COVID-19 market and logistics disruptions…Read More
