Australia’s beef export opportunity to the United States in coming years would be more like a ‘slow-moving storm,’ rather than a ‘tsunami,’ a leading US beef industry analyst told a Beef 2024 breakfast audience last week. Rabobank’s Kansas-based US beef and cattle analyst Lance Zimmermann told a packed room in Rockhampton that the weather analogy might suggest that to a ‘slow moving storm’ might be kinder, and less impactful…Read More
Australia’s beef exports during April continued to surge, despite the impact of holiday-shortened working weeks and weather disruptions to processing during the month…Read More
Jon Condon, 02/05/2024
Following the Chinese Government’s official removal of the hefty tariffs imposed on Australian barley and wine, Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism Kevin Hogan has called for the focus to..Read More
Beef Central, 23/04/2024
After a tough 2023, Australian consumer confidence is on the rise, however it remains patchy, a new consumer survey has found…Read More
Beef Central, 22/04/2024
Some of the beef industry’s brightest young minds have been encouraged to pay attention to global trade trends with Australia’s most important partners starting to change their priorities…Read More
Eric Barker, 08/04/2024
Momentum being seen this year in slaughter activity is being carried through with dramatically higher Australian beef exports during March, and the full first quarter. Despite the early Easter holiday impact this year, March exports to all markets reached 106,573t, more than 14pc higher than the previous month, and 7pc higher than March last year…Read More
Jon Condon, 05/04/2024
The number of Americans who describe themselves as meat eaters (80pc) and the number of households that purchase meat (98pc) remain steady from last year, while the number seeking to decrease meat consumption has declined by 20pc since 2020, according to an important annual consumer survey released yesterday. Many of the findings are equally relevant to the Australian consumer market ..Read More
Beef Central, 20/03/2024
There’s been a solid rise in domestic wholesale beef prices recently, with many popular cuts and grinding meat now 15-20pc higher in value than they were in December. That’s come despite a sharp rise in production during February and early March, with some recent weekly national beef kills hitting four-year highs above 128,000 head…Read More
Jon Condon, 07/03/2024
Brazil and a group of other smaller exporter countries servicing the US export beef market under the US’s ‘Other Country’ beef quota have in recent days filled their tariff-free entitlement for the 2024 year. It means that in order to continue to service the US market for the remainder of 2024, Brazil will have to pay an out-of-quota tariff of 26.4pc on all shipments, reducing their competitiveness against other exporters like Australia and NZ…Read More
Jon Condon, 06/03/2024
Australia’s expanding beef production this year is reflected in February exports, which were up more than 23,000t or 33pc on the same period last year…Read More
Beef Central, 04/03/2024
Two red meat items are included in the latest round of retail price cuts made on more than 400 food and grocery items by national supermarket giant, Woolworths. ..Read More
Beef Central, 01/03/2024
After considerable delays, Australian beef exporters have started loading frozen beef and offal consignments for Indonesia this week, following the issuance of 2024 import permits by the Indonesian Government on Thursday,..Read More
Jon Condon, 29/02/2024
