Supply and price for broad merino
Longer run trends, by their nature, tend to be overlooked in the week to week or month to month discussion of markets because they are generally not material to short term fluctuations in price. However longer term trends tend to be cumulative in their effect on price, with enough time, and so become material to […]
Heavy trade and export lambs in demand
Test cricket is over for the summer, so it’s back to watching the markets for us. That said, there’s still headers in the paddocks, and everyone else is still at the beach, meaning there’s not too much to look at just yet. With weaner cattle sales filling up the first two weeks of January, there’s […]
Grains rally over the break
The unusually wet year in 2022 has seen a very late harvest across the eastern states. Harvest is winding up in some areas, while others still going flat chat, or as fast as you can go in rain and flood affected ground. To open 2023 we’ll do a quick update on price movements over the […]
Cautious weaner steer buying on a falling market.
It’s that time of year when cattle producers cut short their beach holidays and head home to sort up cattle for the annual southern weaner sales. After the extreme highs of 2022 the expectation was for lower values, but by some estimations weaners are looking as cheap as they’ve been for many a year. The […]
