Cheeky offal price rises keep co-product returns at historical highs

Co-products are a key profit margin indicator for processors, especially when inputs are as high as they currently are, and luckily for the processors they are continuing to offer strong returns in many categories. Using a 500kg liveweight cow as our starting point, most recent price data has co-products returning $328.67 per head in September. […]

It’s a bit wet for crops

It’s a bit wet is phrase often heard at the moment. It’s a typical massive understatement from farmers being impacted by rain and flooding. Today the focus is on grain crops and markets. It’s impossible to know how rain has shifted yields yet, but markets will give us an idea of grower sentiment. A really […]

Long merino wool prices

Wool in mill

In an article last week Mecardo looked at the increasing supply of long staple merino wool, as a function of circumstances this season (and last season). This week we take a look at the price effect of long staple length in merino wool. As the article last week showed there is a natural range of […]