Aug 18, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - MLA and HerdDogg pilot to improve overall animal health
HerdDogg, an innovator of precision livestock and remote animal health solutions, is partnering with Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) for the largest real- time cattle health pilot ever conducted. The MLA-funded pilot will install…
Aug 18, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - New app for maintenance for Farm Plant, Equipment and Vehicles
Along with his brother Peter, David farms more than 22,000 acres in northern New South Wales, growing wheat, chickpeas, faba beans, canola, barley and dryland cotton under a zero-till, controlled-traffic system.A NEW smartphone and…
Aug 18, 2018
Video - Two National Lamb records tumble at Griffith on Friday
Watch here the Spencer and Bennett footage of the Sale - https://www.facebook.com/spencerbennettypc/videos/2114468885538770/Congratulations to Mark Tabain for breaking the National Record with a whopping $318 for a pen of 58 lambs.…
Aug 18, 2018
Kedleston Park Merino's to $5000
Kedleston Park Merino Stud, Calivil, Vic held their Ram Sale on Friday.They offered up 44 Rams and sold 40 to an average of $2269. The top lot went for $5000 and the sale grossed $90,760 for the Humbert Family
Aug 18, 2018
Booroomooka Angus sell 218 to an average of $9036
The Munro family's Booroomooka Angus, Bingara, NSW, Bull Sale was held on Friday and what a Sale it wasThey offered up 218 Bulls and cleared the lot to a top of $28,000, lot 99, Booroomooka Marscay M570.The average for the Sale was…
Aug 18, 2018
Glenlea Park Merinos's average $2358 for 168 all sold
Glenlea Park Poll Merino Stud, Pinnaroo, SA, held their on-property on Friday. They offered 168 Rams and sold the lot to a top of $5800. The top lot was sold to Nareen Station, Coleraine, Vic.The average for the Sale was a very solid…
Aug 17, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Drop in throughput not enough to shore up EYCI
By Matt Dalgleish | Source: MLA, NLRS, Steiner, BOM, MecardoDeclining saleyard cattle volumes this week were not able to provide a floor to price movements for younger cattle with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) extending…
Aug 17, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Lamb bounces back to set another record
By Angus Brown | Source: MLA, MecardoAfter finding some solid resistance at 800¢ earlier in August, it looked like lambs stellar run was finished. This week the market came back to life, with new highs set in heavy and trade lamb…
Aug 17, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Perfect storm for wool market
By Robert Herrmann | Source: AWEX, MecardoA fall in the Au$, alongside a reduced offering and the prospect of a further reduction in the offerings into the future, conspired to create an almost frenzied wool market this week.The Eastern…
Aug 17, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Weekly Wool Forwards – Week ending 17th August 2018
By Olivia Agar | Source: Mecardo, RiemannThe Australian dollar has continued its downward trajectory, with no signs of a turnaround in the short-term. This is providing some support to overseas buyers, keeping the futures active while…
Aug 17, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - US to take the task
By Andrew Whitelaw | Source: CME, MecardoWe are starting to get through the northern hemisphere weather window and the crop condition is now largely known. European Union and Black Sea exports are going to decline and locally we can…
Aug 17, 2018
Smokin’: the strategy behind emerging Tassie icon’s monumental export growth
When BJ Plummer was handed the reins of acclaimed Tasmanian smoked seafood producer Woodbridge Smokehouse, he was instructed not to ‘mess around’ with the brand. We spoke to Plummer about his strategy, which has seen export revenue…
Aug 17, 2018
EMI up 126c/kg in an astonishing week for Wool
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolA lower national offering of just over 36,000 bales and a decline in the Australian dollar trading at below 73 US cents was enough to attract strong overseas demand on the wool market this week.The Eastern…
Aug 16, 2018
Value-based pricing through DEXA can deliver up to $20 added value per carcase
A shift to value-based pricing brought on by the adoption of DEXA technology at meat processing plants could deliver up to $20 per carcase in added value to the supply chain.Historically, the industry has used a simple measure of…
Aug 16, 2018
Injunction threat for Live Export addressed - Littleproud
The threat of a court injunction stopping live export ships from leaving port has been addressed after Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud signed a regulation today.The concern was an activist group could lodge a court injunction…
Aug 16, 2018
How best to graze unsuccessful crops
* Grazing management is essential to ration feed and maintain ground cover * Do a feed budget * Livestock management is about monitoring livestock condition, soil cover and pasture growth. Do not put stock in a paddock and…
Aug 16, 2018
Georgie Somerset heads up new leadership team at AgForce Queensland
AgForce Queensland will transition to a new leadership team later this year with South Burnett cattle producer Georgie Somerset to become the new General President after Grant Maudsley chose not to re-nominate for the position following…
Aug 16, 2018
Case IH pump up the tyres ahead of next week Ag Quip Field Days
Case IH showcased the future at last year’s AgQuip with its Autonomous Concept Vehicle (ACV), and this year that theme continues, but with a focus on a new technology platform that will give farmers the answers they need at the touch…
Aug 16, 2018
Hazeldean Angus Northern Sale hits a high note of $15,500
Hazeldean Angus held their Northern Performance Bull Sale on Thursday at Jackson, QldA full clearance of 122 Bulls sold on the day.The top lot was lot 29, Hazeldean M995, which made $15,500 and sold to AJM PastoralThe average for…
Aug 16, 2018
Video - $306 a record at Wagga Sheep and Lambs
Tim Pattison from Riverina Livestock Agents with this weeks reportWatch here - https://www.facebook.com/RLAwaggawagga/videos/1086122598219927/http://www.riverinaagents.com.au/
