Canola slips on Indonesian palm oil
Palm oil prices have continued falling this week on the news that Indonesia will cut export taxes, reaching the lowest point since April, dragging canola prices down with it. Indonesia, which typically accounts for over 60% of global palm oil exports recently instigated a three week ban on palm oil exports which was reversed on […]
Is a weaner in the hand worth a feeder in bush?
It’s a horrible mangling of the saying, but this week we tackle a subscriber query and a question confronting spring calving cow/calf producers. Should steers and heifer which have been weaned recently be sold into a record market, or grown out to feeders The subscriber in question is from Jingellic, and has 250kg steer which […]
RWS volumes by country
In recent weeks Mecardo has published articles, using excellent information from the IWTO, showing where the supply of RWS accredited wool stems from internationally and also the estimated fibre diameter distribution of RWS accredited merino wool, also from an international perspective. A reader has asked Mecardo to simply show the proportion of wool produced by […]
