May 29, 2024
Blessing or burden?
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. Blessing or burden? - We are doing a story on Sam Van Assche, through The Farmers Club platform tomorrow. Sam…
May 28, 2024
Securing Victoria Food supply
Urban sprawl and population pressures on food production at the fringe of our state’s major cities and towns to be addressed by a Lower House inquiry seeking public input. The Legislative Assembly Environment and Planning Committee…
May 28, 2024
Does the global Wheat market need to ration demand?
By Peter McMeekin The current dynamic driving global wheat markets higher has been the ongoing dry conditions across much of Russia's winter wheat belt. This has prompted local analysts to cut their production forecasts aggressively…
May 26, 2024
Get ready Danny
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. Get ready Danny - Danny Thomas, the leading Rural Property Agent for LAWD, spoke at our last 2 Farmer Tender events, and…
May 25, 2024
Economies of scale
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. Economies of scale - Most Farmers live on their Farms, but most of the businesses they use to buy and or sell things are…
May 24, 2024
Feast follows famine
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. Feast follows famine - The domestic Hay market is off-tap right now. All of a sudden, there is a huge demand…
May 24, 2024
A bounce in the right direction at Wagga Wagga
Yarding - 66,950 Lamb supply lifted to 45,500 head to be up nearly 10,000 on a week ago. But even with these bigger numbers quality pens of trade and heavy lambs remained limited, and buyers…
May 23, 2024
Flipping Burgers
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. Flipping Burgers - You know how McDonald's says they are a Real Estate business disguised as a Burger company. Well,…
May 22, 2024
Prices kick nicely at Ballarat
Yarding: 29,476 Lamb numbers dropped to 17,557 penned, quality was mixed with an excellent run of extra heavy export lambs, but numbers were limited. Trade weights ranged from plain to very good, also…
May 22, 2024
The big rain watch
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May 21, 2024
Farmers turn to BNPL
By Giuseppe Tauriello from the Adelaide Advertiser Innovative funding set to grow in Ag sector. A group of South Australian investors is backing the emergence of the buy now pay later financing model in Australia's agricultural…
May 21, 2024
Russia is the gorilla in global Wheat markets…
By Brendan Dart In the mid 1980's, Russia and the USSR were major importers of wheat. The average seasonal imports were around 18mmt prior to the collapse of the USSR, peaking in the 1984/85 season at a touch over 28 million…
May 21, 2024
Flat old market at Bendigo
Yarding - 20,050 More numbers came in at 12200 lambs and 7870 sheep to take the yarding above 20,000 head again. Lamb quality was very mixed with more wintery clean-up lots starting to appear, and good lines…
May 19, 2024
Drought can floor the best
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May 18, 2024
That's what we do in the bush
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. That's what we do in the bush - Just changing to tone a little bit as you can get caught up in alot of heavy stuff…
May 17, 2024
Large Sheep yarding at Wagga Wagga
Yarding - 59,050 Bigger numbers of 36,100 lambs and a notable increase to nearly 23,000 sheep took today’s yarding to just over 59,000 head. The make-up of the offering remained similar, featuring an impressive…
May 17, 2024
Mick the Farmhand
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson. Mick the Farmhand - We have had plenty of replies on our Clarkson's Farm equivalent for Australia article…
May 15, 2024
Farmers - No Food and Fibre Week
By Dwain Duxson Farmers - No Food and Fibre Week - As Farmers, we are getting belted from pillar to post by the Government and the anti-Farming brigade. I have an idea of how we can wrestle some power back. What if…
May 15, 2024
Hay Report - Supply concerns a talking point
For the fortnight up to the 15th of May 2024. By Dwain Duxson The cooler months are here, and many in the South are now resigned to the fact that they are going to be feeding at least until the Spring time. This is…
May 15, 2024
A dearer Mutton market at Ballarat
Yarding: 35,100 Lamb supply dropped back to 23,400 head, around 6000 less than a week ago. Fewer extra heavy lambs over 30kg cwt were yarded, while quality trade lambs were limited in a mostly good to average line-up…
