Cattle

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Limousin cattle
Market Comment

Cows jump against the trend

Despite a sea of red ink on the National categories, medium cows notched up a solid increment of 9% this week. The Eastern Young Cattle

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Cattle on Feed
Market Analysis

Herd rebuilding a bit slower

January is when Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) update their projections, and there have been a few interesting changes made, especially on the supply front.

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Market Analysis

Percentiles – January 2022

Mecardo’s Percentiles update for January 2022. Click below to view the latest report Grains Oilseeds Sheep and lambs Cattle Wool Dairy Fuel Percentiles are an important

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cattle saleyards
Market Comment

Slower start to the year

The saleyards have opened the year slightly softer overall, although demand is still very strong and all indicators are still historically very high. The story

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Cattle on feed
Market Analysis

Quantifying Omicron Impacts

It seems like this is the hundredth article we’ve written on Covid-19 impacts on livestock slaughter, but here we are again. This time it’s not

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Research: Analysis of the Australian sheep flock

In this report for LiveCorp and MLA, we analysed the historical trends in the demographics of the Australian sheep flock, examining domestic factors that influence farm-level enterprise decision making. 

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