Direct consignment price grids are largely unchanged across eastern and southern Australia this week, as country starts to dry out after earlier rain and the first glimpse of winter appears on the horizon…Read More
Jon Condon, 13/04/2021Faced by empty post-Easter kill slots, offers from some Queensland processors have lifted 20c/kg on heavy grass steers this week, while some slaughter cow rates have increased 10-15c/kg. Supply prospects look particularly bleak for processors for the next month, due to more widespread rain…Read More
Jon Condon, 07/04/2021After a six-week phase where direct consignment grid offers have trended downwards, a number of Queensland exporters have raised their offers significantly over the past few days, in response to acute slaughter cattle supply shortage. Best offers seen from competitors this week were up anywhere from 15-25c/kg, depending on the category…Read More
Jon Condon, 29/09/2020Falls of 25-75mm across substantial areas of southwestern and western Queensland, western NSW and eastern parts of South Australia in the past week have been enough to disrupt slaughter cattle supply to some processors this week…Read More
Jon Condon, 22/09/2020More adjustments were seen in slaughter cattle grid offers this week, in the face of listless export markets and a rising currency. Some Queensland processor competitors have dropped their offers a further 10c/kg since Friday, and most of the state’s grids have now dipped a combined 20-30c/kg over the past fortnight…Read More
While the international and domestic beef trade out of Australia continues to cop a buffeting from COVID-related demand factors and high rates of kill in competing exporter countries, currency movement has played a big role in recent slaughter cattle pricing trends…Read More
Jon Condon, 01/09/2020Rates of slaughter across eastern Australia appear to have steadied last week, after dramatic declines were reported the week before. There has been little or no change in direct consignment slaughter rates this week, despite the absence of couple of larger processors due to plant shutdowns…Read More
Jon Condon, 25/08/2020THE Eastern states weekly slaughter fell to almost unprecedented mid-season lows last week, in the face of sustained supply pressure caused by the past two years of drought-forced herd reduction. If the trend continues, a decline in national slaughter throughput of this scale will inevitably put considerable pressure on Australian beef’s ability to adequately service key export markets…Read More
Jon Condon, 18/08/2020Eastern States beef kills fell to a four-month low last week, as supply of slaughter-type cattle continued to tighten, and Victoria’s COVID-related plant closures took effect…Read More
Jon Condon, 28/07/2020Increasingly tough trading conditions and renewed COVID uncertainty in international markets has prompted major processors to drop rates by up to 20c/kg on direct consignment slaughter cattle in recent days, and it looks like there is more to come…Read More
Jon Condon, 21/07/2020Some processor grid offers in Queensland have risen this week, while southern Australian saleyards cow prices continue to fire on all cylinders. Flow of cattle into southern Queensland plants is looking tighter this week, and there are suggestions that at least one large export plant may skip days next week, as a result…Read More
Jon Condon, 26/05/2020A big price gap has emerged for better slaughter cows between southern states and Queensland since Easter, as southern processors jostle for limited supply…Read More
Jon Condon, 05/05/2020