Future breeders moving off farm?
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its quarterly Livestock Products report last week, and while we can get some indications from weekly data, the quarterly government data allows us to delve deeper. There were some significant records broken in September. Anyone who shows any interest in sheep and lamb markets will have known supply […]
Lotfed cattle spending more time on feed
Increased feeder cattle availability and lower prices have been enough to offset the increase of other inputs for lotfeeders, with cattle on feed numbers climbing higher in the September quarter. The modest increase of about 1500 head took the number of cattle on feed to 1.258 million head, making the July to September 2023 period […]
Goat and sheepmeat correlations
The drop in meat prices since mid-2022 has affected beef, lamb, mutton, and goat. This article investigates the relationship between goat meat prices and other extensively grown meats during the past two decades. In past Mecardo articles, we have looked at lamb as being the upper bound for goat meat prices and mutton as being […]
A halt to harvest
If you’re reading this, you’re interested in grain prices, and as such, you’ll likely have seen the weather forecast for the coming week. With rain forecast to fall all up and down the East Coast cropping zone, harvest is likely to pull up. What will this do to prices? Harvest grain pricing is inherently volatile, […]
