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Indian Ocean Dipole warms heading out of Summer

The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) has continued to warm heading into Autumn, rising to +0.05 for the week of February 24, through to March 2, 2025. This is off the back of increasing warming periods in November 2024, December 2024 and January 2025.

Indian Ocean Dipole warms heading out of Summer

The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) has continued to warm heading into Autu...

Trading PTIC Cows is not a new opportunity – calving down the cow and split the articles, taking the cow into either a breeder ...

Australian destocking phase – ABS

September 2024 Quarter data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggests...

Cattle market remains strong for now

After a flurry of activity and strong prices throughout the opening of 2025 at S...

The Victorian and South Australian weaner sales are in full swing, with over 13,000 head yarded at Barnawartha (NVLX), VIC, fro...

2024 has come and all but gone, and Australian agricultures finds itself poised with opportunity. So with this in mind I though...

US beef and lamb at record levels

After easing in to 811c in October, the US Beef Retail value according to USDA has ...

The Australian Feedlot industry has been on significant growth across the past 20 years. BeefEx 2024, reiterated that the lot f...

Cattle market working through Spring

The cattle market took a step back last week (week ending November 8). Online on...

With the US election done and dusted, we take a look at potential impacts from the new government. Across 31 years, from 1989 t...

Large volumes of cattle across the county continue to flow both online and into saleyards, and are testing markets.

Today marks one year since the MLA Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) fell to its lowest point when the cattle market collap...

Wool market rallies after Chinese stimulus package

The wool market has seen its most significant rise in several mont...

In 2024 the Australian livestock market has regained much of the ground lost in 2023, and more importantly the industry a level...

New Zealand lamb slaughter hits 12m head

With Australia and New Zealand making up between 80%-90% of the global lamb ...

Trading PTIC Cows is not a new opportunity. However, with a strong baseline of the processor cow market, it has recently risen in popularity.
Tom Rookyard musters the latest livestock market data in his weekly wrap for APlus News.
Tom Rookyard discusses the impact of Germany's FMD outbreak, strong cattle markets, rising Argentinian beef prices, and the boost in the Australian wool market.
Tom Rookyard provides his latest insights into Australia's livestock markets; Southern weaner sales heat up, record lamb exports, and trends in carcase weights and retail meat prices.
Tom Rookyard offers some “bold and daring predictions” for livestock markets in 2025.
Tom Rookyard noted some interesting insights about the US red meat market when visiting there recently. Check out this week's Tom's Market Muster for the details plus updates on the domestic restocker and wool markets.
Tom Rookyard reviews Australia's feedlot industry growth, export markets, and future trends, highlighting 2024 records and expectations for 2025.
In this week's Tom's Market Muster, the cattle market is working through Spring and mutton is holding its ground. Plus cull cows, US feeders and Merino ewes in the spotlight.
Tom Rookyard takes a look at potential impacts from a new US Government under the leadership of Donald Trump.

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