Canola premium to swing some hectares
We recently had a query which came across the desk, (so to speak – in an email to be exact), which asked if canola would take some acres off barley this year. In this article we will look at historical relationships between price and plantings and see if we can find a pointer. Figure 1 […]
Ovine slaughter down but is it enough?
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released it’s quarterly ‘Livestock Products’ data and statistics on Friday. There is plenty of data to dig through, but today we look at headline numbers and possible impacts on supply as we move into autumn. Long time readers will have heard the bemoaning from these pages around how the […]
A look at southern hemisphere merino wool production
The main southern hemisphere wool exporters (from west to east; South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Uruguay) are by default the major suppliers of merino wool to the supply chain. This article takes a look at the total supply of merino wool from these countries by micron, filtering the volumes for non-mulesed and RWS […]