A somewhat educated guesstimate
Each December we save the last article of the year for a bit of a crystal ball gaze, as we try to bring together market fundamentals and work out where prices are going in the New Year. We didn’t do sheep last year, so we can’t say if we were right or wrong, but 2025 […]
Global protein demand underpins Australia’s rising cattle market
Australian cattle prices have made significant year on year gains in 2025 despite ample supply, as global protein demand, led by the US, created a demand led market. This meant historically strong pricing regardless of extreme variability in seasonal conditions across the country. It bodes well for 2026, as we head back into the northern […]
2025 in wool
With the last wool auction sales being held this week in Australia, and South Africa auctions already in recess, it is timely to look at how the greasy wool market finished 2025 compared to a year ago. For merino wool, there was little movement in price for the first half of 2025, with an abrupt […]
Canola cops international plunge
For southern canola growers, the timing of last week’s decline couldn’t have been much worse. Here we take a look at harvest pricing and whether we can expect a bounce as harvest winds up. As the southern harvest finally got a run on, canola prices crashed. It wasn’t harvest pressure; it was falling international markets, […]