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Large goat processing numbers expected, as price drops

Goat prices have dropped significantly in the past six months. Graph: MLA LARGE numbers of goats are expected to come out of Western Queensland and New South Wales this year, despite the price dropping to less than half in the space of six months. According to Meat & Livestock Australia’s Over The Hooks report, goat […]

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Six take-home messages from Japanese Wagyu export beef showcase

master butcher Tomohiro Tanaka, from Japan’s Federal Meat Acadamy with the array of products harvested from a knuckle primal as part of last week’s Brisbane demonstration AUSTRALIAN food service customers from the hotel, restaurant and resort sector were treated to a rare insight into Japanese-produced elite-level Wagyu beef in Brisbane last week. Since market access […]

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Dalby sale 8 Feb 2023: Numbers top national weekly yardings

Yarding 4769 Change +1243 The supply of stock at Dalby climbed to the highest level in the nation this week with agents penning 4,769. The large panel of export processors of the previous week returned and all were operating. Light weight yearling steers returning to the paddock experience very little change in price. Yearling steers […]

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Slow going for cattle shipments in January

Australian cattle export volumes in January fell to the lowest monthly total totalled in more a decade, with just 24,347 shipped to all markets. The last time a smaller monthly volume of cattle was shipped from Australia according to Beef Central’s records was March 2012, when 21,333 cattle were exported. Shipments to Indonesia in January […]

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Wool prices surge on back of Chinese buying | The Land

“The crossbreds are still finding it hard to break away from the lower price pattern that they’ve now fallen back into, although as you get into better style crossbreds, high yielding types, and move a bit finer into the first-cross and the comeback lines, you start to see a bit more competition.” Click to check […]

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