Digital cattle sales
Widespread Covid-19 restrictions in 2020 saw producers look at alternate methods of marketing their stock to the traditional physical saleyard, creating a surge in buyers and sellers entering digital marketplaces. Yardings figures from AuctionsPlus indicate that the digital space has capitalized on that momentum, with cattle volumes again growing strongly in FY2020/21. AuctionsPlus recently released […]
Sheep ships lose more momentum
It has been 12 months since we last looked into live sheep export volumes, and the market has continued to shrink. In the calendar year of 2020, Australian live sheep exports fell to their lowest figure on record – below 1 million for the first time. Thankfully, this 27% drop in year-on-year volume only equated […]
Barley off the rollercoaster
Despite the rises and falls seen in international grain markets over the last year, local barley and feed grain markets have been remarkably steady. Looking at international spreads, Australian grain consumers might have one of the cheapest feed grain supplies in the world this harvest. Figure 1 shows that over the last 12 months Chicago […]
