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It has been about four months since we took a look at the Meat & Livestock Online Young Cattle Indicator (OYCI) versus the saleyard Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) and thin markets over the Christmas break saw spread behaviour get a little erratic, but prices and spreads have normalised somewhat as the year has progressed.

During the first quarter of 2024 Australian beef export flows totalled 275,992 tonnes. Q1 2024 has seen beef export volumes run...

An analysis of AuctionsPlus transactions against the MLA’s National Feeder Steer Indicator show when premiums and discoun...

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) published their first cattle producer intentions survey results this week. There is a great ...

The recent release to the Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) cattle projections and baseline forecasts for the US beef indust...

Updated sheep industry projections from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) allow us to re-calculate our National Trade Lamb I...

Lamb pricing moved higher through December and January, recovering well from the market lull seen in late 2023. However, some m...

According to a 2023 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report, livestock is a significant source of greenhouse ga...

The strong start to 2024 continues for Aussie beef exports registering the best trade outcome for February since 2019.

There was 31,052 tonnes of Aussie lamb product exported during February 2024, pushing the current month to a new February...

Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released their quarterly livestock slaughter data for the final quarter of ...

The first three weeks of February have seen some very solid throughput numbers presented at east coast saleyards, particularly ...

Scanned-in-lamb (SIL) ewes understandably achieve price premiums over regular ewes, but how much does this premium spread vary ...

The 2024 season has opened in fine fashion for Aussie beef export flows with total beef export volumes at 75,585 tonnes s...

January 2024 saw the strongest opening to the Aussie lamb export season on record with 25,173 tonnes swt reported shipped...

During quarter four of 2023 average PTIC Cow pricing per head on AuctionsPlus saw a 15% increase from $1,285 per head to $1,474...

As we begin 2024, the Australian sheep and cattle producers are treading a path markedly different from the stellar heights of ...

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) have begun reporting daily price information on online young cattle sales with reference t...

The 2023 season has been a strong one for Australian goat exports with monthly volumes running above average for much of the ye...

Meat & Livestock Australia have released a new Online Lamb Indicator termed the OLI, which presently exclusively uses onlin...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics have released their livestock slaughter and meat production volumes for the third quarter o...

There was a very slight increase to cattle on feed numbers over the September quarter in 2023, according to the ALFA feed...

Anyone that follows the cattle market knows that prices have pretty much halved from the peaks seen last year. Analysis of the ...

Total Australian lamb export volumes eased by nearly 3% over October 2023, but still managed to post trade levels in excess of ...

Total Australian beef exports rose by 6.5% over October 2023 to hit 105,131 tonnes swt.

Total live cattle exports lifted nearly 11% during September 2023 to see 60,451 head transported offshore from Australia.

United States Department of Agriculture cattle slaughter data as at the end of the September quarter highlights that the US rem...

In his regular fortnightly assessment of price spreads between AuctionsPlus indicators and saleyard indicators, Episode3's Matt...

It has been a while since we took a look at the EP3 Beef Processor Profitability Index (BPPI) and how times have changed for th...

Prices for young cattle on the AuctionsPlus platform have been increasingly outperforming the sale yard prices being achieved f...

There has been a noticeable lift in weekly lamb processing volumes across east coast abattoirs in the past two months.

The recent slide in Australian Heavy Steer pricing has seen the spread between the Aussie and US equivalent heavy steer widen t...

Q1 beef exports are the highest they have been since 2015 with the USA accounting for 24.7% of the total beef trade from Australia.
An analysis of AuctionsPlus transactions against the MLA’s National Feeder Steer Indicator shows when premiums and discounts are most likely.
An analysis of MLA data has revealed what breeds are most popular across the country.
Episode 3's National Heavy Steer model suggests finished cattle prices will improve 30% on last year. 2025 and 2026 are also looking up.
Stay informed about the latest sheep industry projections and fair value models for lamb pricing in 2024 and beyond. Explore insights from Meat & Livestock Australia and forecasts by Matt Dalgleish.
The price gap in c/kg between online and physical markets has hit the highest premium since early August 2023.
The UN's food agency has proposed key ag interventions to reduce livestock emissions without major dietary changes.
February was a record for cattle exports with America up a whopping 83% over this time last year.
February was a record for lamb exports and is a third higher than the five year average. All top four trade destinations are at above average demand.

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