Oct 09, 2018
Mecardo Update - Regional Rainfall Update - October 2018
By Matt Dalgleish | Source: BOM, Mecardo. Mecardo have created a series of regional rainfall charts across the nation in order to compare the current seasonal rainfall on a monthly basis to the long term average levels and the normal/extreme…
Oct 09, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Urea & Gas: A strong relationship
By Andrew Whitelaw | Source: USDA, Mecardo. The industry spends a lot of time examining the output price of our crops and livestock, however, it is also important to examine the cost of the inputs that are required to produce our…
Oct 09, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - The drought hasn’t broken, but its showing some cracks
By Angus Brown | Source: BOM, MLA, Mecardo. There is always risk when looking at where prices might go if the drought breaks. It is the risk of calling it too early, as the dripping tap is turned off, rather than fully on, and the…
Oct 09, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Fine wool volumes rising
By Andrew Woods | Source: AWEX, ICS. Two weeks ago Mecardo looked at ultra-fine merino prices, finishing the article with a comment that rising supply would most likely put downward pressure on prices. The latest AWTA volume data…
Oct 08, 2018
Sheep slightly dearer at Bendigo Market on Monday
New season lamb supply continued to flow in at Bendigo, although there was a drop of approximately 6,209 lambs, with 21,791 head sold. Quality was mixed from good heavyweight young lambs, many trade weights to some plainer lambs showing…
Oct 08, 2018
Australians are eating more Eggs - 16.9 million a day
Australia's egg production, in the fiscal year 2017-2018, reached 6.2 billion eggs, approximately 16.9 million eggs/day. That represents a 54% increase in production from 10 years ago and also signals an increase in consumption per…
Oct 08, 2018
Fixed Time Artificial Insemination (FTAI) demonstration at Te Mania Angus
The yards are where technology is taking AI in large-scale beef cattle herds to new levels of breeding efficiency.In 2018 Te Mania Angus has 2000 cows in its stud herd and 70 per cent of those will conceive through AI using FTAI (Fixed…
Oct 08, 2018
Kyvalley Dairy Group ups payments to help suppliers through the dry period
As one of Australia’s largest family owned dairy company’s Kyvalley Dairy understand the impact the drought is having across regional Australia and it’s farming families.Last week Kyvalley Dairy Group CEO, Alastair McCredden contacted…
Oct 08, 2018
SA Farmers visit Coopers Brewery to see where their Barley Harvest went
It’s not often that Coopers Brewery hosts barley farmers during a bottling run, so everyone was excited last month when Seed Force hosted three RGT Planet farming families as they saw the results of last season‘s harvest come of the…
Oct 08, 2018
Setting the facts straight on glyphosate
Tonight the ABC's Four Corners program will air a story which questions the safety of glyphosate - possibly the world's most important agricultural chemical.Glyphosate (or RoundUp as it is commonly sold) is in the spotlight following…
Oct 07, 2018
When the small stuff bites, think big.
By Caroline Welsh - BGC ChairmanNot a single drop.That’s what fell at our place for September.In August I was pleased to see we passed our worst ever year according to our farm records, the 95mm we received in 1982. However since…
Oct 07, 2018
Farm in Focus – Simon Goode, St Arnaud, Vic
By Louisa Ferrier - BCGSimon Goode farms north of St Arnaud at Gooroc and Sutherland with wife Naomi and parents Denis and Patricia. He and Naomi have two boys, Oliver, 4 and Oscar, 1.Their farming business comprises cropping, export…
Oct 07, 2018
The Acceptance Speech Concept - By Nathan Scott
Many of our clients struggle with the idea of celebrating where they have got to, as the truly progressive are always looking for the next achievement. In a sense, I have been responsible for fostering a perpetual state of unhappiness…
Oct 07, 2018
New CEO for NSW Farmers
The Board of NSW Farmers has appointed Pete Arkle as the Association’s new chief executive officer.Mr Arkle will join the Association next month following 12 years with agribusiness Syngenta in sustainable agriculture, corporate and…
Oct 06, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - Microsoft: "Great potential for AI in agriculture"
Making better decisions, being able to be more proactive and to see patterns that cannot be seen or figured out with a human brain capability. That is what artificial intelligence and data analytics in agriculture is all about. Claudia…
Oct 06, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - Ag Blockchain set to be worth over $400 million by 2023
The blockchain in agriculture and food supply chains market will be worth over $400 million in the next five years, according to a new report.Authored by Reportlinker, a report released this week “Blockchain: Agriculture Market Forecast…
Oct 05, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet
By Andrew Whitelaw | Source: Mecardo, ASX, ABARES, CSIRO. *On a side note, if you have a spare 5 minutes, please let us how we're going by filling in Mecardo's survey HERE.The drought continues to be the main talking point, with this…
Oct 05, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Weekly wool forwards- week ending 5th November 2018
By Nathan Denny | Source: Riemann, Mecardo. Activity on the wool forwards market remains muted with the current seasons supply challenges and the falling physical market. Overseas buyers are still graced by the Aussie dollar sitting…
Oct 05, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - After the falls, could we be finding support?
By Robert Herrmann | Source: AWEX, Mecardo. The wool market continued to retrace this week with most of the falls coming at the beginning of the selling before stabilising towards the end.The Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) fell 21…
Oct 05, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - The bottom for lamb or a dead cat bounce?
By Angus Brown | Source: MLA, Mecardo. The lamb market was following the trend of the last few weeks, until rain and an out of the blue bounce upset the market yesterday. The Thursday rally was felt across the categories, but was…
