As often happens in a rapidly-rising market like this, saleyards slaughter cattle prices have pulled ahead of direct consignment values in comparative terms for the time being – despite some hefty 30-40c kicks in over-the-hooks grids in Queensland last week. Some markets observers suggest slaughter cattle previously booked earlier with processors on space only (no price attached) have since been diverted into the saleyards channel to exploit the dramatic surge that has happened through the saleyards channel. ..Read More
Beef Central, 09/06/2026
Some of the biggest slaughter cattle price increases seen since the 2022-23 era when cattle supply was greatly hampered by herd rebuilding have been seen this week…Read More
Popular Queensland meat processing industry identity Tony Nolan, whose funeral service was held in Gympie this morning, is being remembered as a meat processing industry innovator, technology pioneer and a great local community leader…Read More
Jon Condon, 29/05/2026
Recent widespread and in places beneficial rain has forced direct consignment grid prices sharply higher across the eastern states this week. Queensland grids started to rise last Thursday in response to lower saleyards yardings and changing attitudes among direct-consignment cattle suppliers, with lifts of 20c/kg reasonably common…Read More
Jon Condon, 26/05/2026
Rain, or the prospect of it, again became a focus in slaughter cattle market psychology this week, with impacts being seen in some smaller saleyards yardings and a few logistical problems in delivery of direct-consignment cattle…Read More
Jon Condon, 19/05/2026
Horrific trading conditions for the company’s US beef division were offset by strong results in Australia and Brazil in JBS’s first quarter results posted overnight…Read More
Beef Central, 13/05/2026
Three or four key factors appear to be driving a sharp rise in direct consignment grid prices being offered by some Queensland export processors since Friday…Read More
Jon Condon, 12/05/2026
A recent truck rollover with cattle tick infested livestock in Queensland’s Tick Free Zone has reignited calls for stricter biosecurity protocols…Read More
Lydia Burton, 12/05/2026
The challenges, setbacks and just occasionally, rewards, so common in the red meat processing industry are captured in vivid detail in a new publication chronicling the past 25 years of ownership of Thomas Foods International’s Murray Bridge facility in South Australia. ..Read More
Beef Central, 11/05/2026
As the red meat processing sector invests millions into robotics and artificial intelligence, a conversation that keeps following the technology asks questions about who will service the machines, who will fix them when they are broken and who will install them? With a potential skills shortage looming in the increasingly sophisticated industry, AMPC has started courses for secondary school students interested science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)…Read More
Eric Barker, 08/05/2026
Rebecca Bennett never expected to have a career in the red meat industry, but ICMJ changed that – becoming one of the defining influences in her life…Read More
Beef Central, 07/05/2026
Some southern states direct consignment grids have risen this week following scattered local rain, and signs that the big turnoff cycle involving cattle from parched areas of northern NSW and southern Queensland may be coming to a close…Read More
Jon Condon, 05/05/2026