Production down, but values still to rise
The latest ABARES outlook for livestock products has sheepmeat production dropping for the 2025–26 financial year, pushing prices higher and potentially boosting global demand even further. Changing seasonal conditions are expected to have meant lower lambing numbers leading into the year, but also more ewe retention later in the season, with flock numbers set to […]
The New Zealand wool clip
In Australia, we tend to focus on our domestic wool production and changes to it in terms of volume and quality. Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand has traditionally been the great carpet wool producer, and they too have been experiencing major changes in wool production in recent decades, which this article takes a look […]
Weaner sales upside hanging on northern rain
We are still a month away from the annual January weaner sales, so it is a little difficult to make any bold statements about how prices might play out this year. We can, however, outline how the market is situated at the moment and what might drive rates in the new year. The annual run […]
A good WA spring driving crop production
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) released its December Crop Report last week, and it came with some serious bumping of production figures. The headline numbers make for good reading, at least for consumers looking for some harvest pressure to come on prices. ABARES increased forecast wheat production by 5.4%, […]