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Weekly genetics review: An exciting spring sale season ahead

  Tonight marks the seasonal return of Beef Central’s popular Weekly Genetics Review, compiled by NSW genetics and breeding consultant, Alastair Rayner. Al’s column will appear weekly on Tuesday nights for the duration of the 2022 spring bull selling season, through to November. Editor      TRADITIONALLY bull sales fall into the distinct seasons of […]

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Have we listed your Spring 2022 bull sale details?

  BEEF Central is starting to compile its 2022 Spring bull sales calendar, featuring seedstock sales fixtures nationwide across all major beef breeds being held from now until the end of November. Data will be compiled from breed society records and numerous other sources, but it might pay for stud managers and sale administrators to […]

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Weekly kill: Processor losses around $300/head, model suggests

WHILE better than earlier this year, trading conditions for beef processors remain at around a $300 loss per animal slaughtered, the latest Thomas Elder Markets margin model calculation suggests. Some factors are going in processors favour at present, while others are going against them, TEM’s latest processor margin model indicates. The annual average loss for […]

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