Flying cows riding on welcome subsidy
Airfreight is an essential link in the beef supply chain to enable fast access to international markets and discerning customers that insist on the highest standards of freshness. Grounded international passenger planes caused airfreight prices to skyrocket for the export of fresh premium Australian beef, and without government assistance, such exports would be uneconomical. Here […]
Increases in Australian production matched by consumption.
The December Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARES) Crop Report added fodder for the bears, while the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), gave a bit of hope for the bulls. World and local wheat supplies are still flush however, and domestic prices seem to be responding accordingly. ABARES released their […]
Flock figures to fire in 2021
Grass fever and high prices looks to be enough to encourage plenty of confidence in the sheep industry, despite uncertainty surrounding export markets due to Covid-19 and trade tensions, both for sheepmeat and wool. The national flock rebuild is now underway and looks set to pick up more steam next year. This is according to […]