After a tougher trend from February to April, Australia’s beef processing sector experienced a welcome rebound in trading conditions during May. Following a seasonal lull in April, the Beef Processor Trading Conditions (BPTC) index has staged a solid recovery, offering some respite for an industry under pressure from high livestock procurement costs and mixed export returns.
After a tougher trend from February to April, Australia’s beef processing sector experienced a welcome rebound in trading condi...
As we have entered winter the Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) Heavy Lamb Indicator as surged past $10 on a carcass weight ...
The Sheep Turnoff Ratio (STR), a key metric in monitoring the national flock cycle of rebuild and liquidation phases, has now f...
A surge in US beef imports in the early part of 2025, driven by concerns over looming tariffs, has reshaped global trade dynami...
In our last instalment we undertook pricing analysis on the F1 Wagyu sector. This piece moves to the supply side of the equatio...
Hot on the heels of the Wagyu Edge 2025 annual conference held in Perth undertaken by the Australian Wagyu Association we take ...
In recent weeks, the dynamics of the sheep and lamb markets in New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria have undergone significant ch...
Annual average numbers of cattle on feed in Australia have grown from around 623,000 head in the early 2000s to record levels o...
Australia’s sheep industry has been navigating a delicate balance between flock rebuilding and liquidation throughout 2024, wit...
In the final quarter of 2024, the national trade lamb indicator (NTLI) exhibited unusual seasonal price movements that deviated...
The Australian sheep meat export market continues to demonstrate a complex interplay between destination-specific preferences a...
The Australian beef industry relies heavily on tools and analysis to navigate its complex market environment, where prices are ...
The global beef market is poised to experience significant tightening in 2025, creating opportunities and challenges for the Au...
Recently we took a look at inflation adjusted p...
Australian mutton exports are booming. Lamb exports are running above average levels too but are not as robust as mutton. At th...
The female slaughter ratio (FSR), which is a measure of the percentage of female cattle processed versus total cattle slaughter...
This article provides an analysis of the current F1 Wagyu cattle prices in Australia for heifers and steers, that weigh between...
Shedding sheep varieties continue to gain in popularity among the nation’s sheep producers due to their lower labour requiremen...
Over the last five-years, on average, Australia has exported 71% of the beef it has produced and the ratio of beef exported ver...
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) now publish a selection of young cattle price indicators measuring different segments of the...
The rise of a premium branded beef sector in Australia that focuses on grass-finished cattle as opposed to traditional grain-fi...
The global sheep population is an important component of agriculture and food production across many ...
May 2024 saw a new monthly trade volume record set for Aussie lamb exports with 36,703 tonnes swt reported shipped ...
Western Australian (WA) sheep producers have two primary alternatives to live export: channeling their livestock in...
Episode 3 aren’t in favour of a live sheep export phaseout as the science and the data doesn’t support the decision. However, i...
April 2024 beef export volumes from Australia remain solid with 105,367 tonnes swt reported as sent offshore for the month. The...
Total Australian mutton exports are holding up well, especially considering the demand from the two top destinations, China &am...
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...
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