Dec 05, 2018
Part 1 - The importance of live cattle exports to regional Australia
By Matt Dalgleish - MecardoThis is the first instalment of a three-part blog series which summarises the importance of the live cattle trade to Australia. The information contained within this blog was sourced from a Mecardo report…
Dec 05, 2018
Why Australia needs to make soil sexy
By Sam Duncan - Founder at FarmLabToday is world soil day, so I thought I might get my hands dirty (ha-ha) and write about our most important agricultural resource, our soil.Soil is usually a boring subject, but I’ve made my goal…
Dec 04, 2018
Rebranding Set to Take Herefords Australia Into Genomics Era
Herefords Australia is rolling out new branding to cement the breed’s position within the genomic era.The new Herefords Australia logo incorporates a white stylised Hereford head on an ochre background.The makeup of the face is an…
Dec 04, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - AWTA volumes falling early and heavily
By Andrew Woods | Source: AWTA, ICS. While broad Merino production has been well below year-earlier levels from most of 2018, the core Merino categories are starting to fall. This article takes a look at the supply pattern around…
Dec 04, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Rain pushes restocker prices back to a premium
By Angus Brown | Source: MLA, Mecardo. November has come and gone, and while you couldn’t say the rain was drought-breaking, New South Wales received better than average rain across the entire state. Sheep and lamb markets are yet…
Dec 04, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Processor margins into the red
By Matt Dalgleish | Source: MLA, ABS, Steiner, ALIC, Trade, Mecardo. Updated monthly processor margin calculations from the Mecardo cut-out model indicate that processor margins have slipped into negative territory for the first…
Dec 04, 2018
The Farm Tender Hay Report – Hay Market settles with a slight easing in prices
Hay Market settles with a slight easing in pricesFor the fortnight up to the 4th of December 2018 - Volume 21.All our Farm Tender sales people reported a slight easing of Hay prices over the last two weeks in what looks like a pretty…
Dec 03, 2018
It's Your Fault! - By Nathan Scott
We all have faults, or shortfallings. Every single one of us. If we didn’t, then we certainly wouldn’t be human. But how aware of yours are you? Do you work to improve them? Do you look for indications of what they are?One of the…
Dec 03, 2018
Planning the feed budget for finishing the lambs
The ewes and their lambs have been grazing a ryegrass paddock since just after lambing with a view to cleaning it up ready for spraying and re-sowing. It is now close to 500 kg DM and time to move the stock.There are two goals that…
Dec 03, 2018
Agworld, Elders and the DPIRD demonstrate the value of data collaboration
In an industry-first collaborative effort, Agworld, Elders and Western Australia’s (WA) Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) are unlocking the value of collaboration for growers and industry advisors.…
Dec 03, 2018
Supply levels drop in what was a mixed bag in Bendigo this week
Yarding - 26,000 (-11,000).Lambs - 16,000 (-9,000).Sheep - 10,000 (-2,000).Lamb numbers decreased to 16,000 head, with mutton supply also easing down from the big yardings of recent weeks. Lamb quality declined again, with only a…
Dec 03, 2018
Reinventing retail in regional Australia
By Paul Dillon - Founder at Mallee Rising * $2 billion of sales shifting from bricks and mortar stores to online each year * Retail conditions "more challenging" than any point in past 25 years but (commercial) rental growth still…
Dec 03, 2018
GrainCorp Harvest Report - Harvest weather in NSW and Vic favourable
COMMENTARY - For the 7 days ending December 3• Final stages of harvest in Queensland with focus turning to sorghum• Sorghum planting still underway with further rain needed to encourage a full plant• Good summer rains will be required…
Dec 03, 2018
GrainCorp undertakes a portfolio review
As was recently outlined during the FY2018 results presentation on 15 November 2018, one of GrainCorp Limited’s (“GrainCorp”) strategic priorities has been an evaluation of capital management and portfolio optimisation opportunities.…
Dec 02, 2018
CBH Harvest Report - 50 percent of the WA Crop off
OPERATIONS UPDATE - Week ending the 30th November, 2018At the end of this week CBH expects to be closing in on 50 per cent of our estimated tonnes for 2018, and is currently sitting at around 7.2 million tonnes received. Shipping…
Dec 02, 2018
Australia’s revolutionary high-fibre Wheat
Wheat is a main component of many of life’s joys: from pizza bases to pastas and the blanket around your burrito. We’ve developed a way to make wheat, and in a small way pizza, better for you.We’ve created a type of wheat that’s high…
Dec 02, 2018
Positive outlook for Milk prices
Even though the near-term outlook does not look positive, we are closer to increasing prices now than we were at the beginning of the year. Recent cheese trading activity has shown a break from the pattern of the past few months.…
Dec 02, 2018
Meet the new MLA Directors
More than 800 producers and industry representatives are participating in a packed program of events as part of Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) Red Meat 2018 in Canberra, which has included the 2018 MLA Annual General Meeting (AGM).The…
Dec 01, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - Simple is best when it comes to Ag innovation
1. What is the innovation?We bought South West Stone in 2016, it had been selling pre-cast concrete troughs in the Young area for over 22 years. We had numerous customers telling us the problems they have with troughs. Number one…
Dec 01, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - The autonomous AutoCart gets a workout
The Smart Ag AutoCart tested at Altona this fall did not run over any people or standing corn, reports Mike Friesen. He says it’s a good, practical start down the path to useable driverless equipment.The autonomous AutoCart got a…
