REAL-TIME video monitoring of livestock unloading at saleyards and abattoirs, and other reforms, have been suggested following the release of more than 600 animal welfare incident reports last week. The Australian Alliance for Animals has told Sheep Central it is shocked but not surprised by the litany of horrific cases of neglect and abuse detailed […]

Property prices. A perennially hot topic of conversation in agriculture and one that has been of particular interest over the past five years with fierce competition between corporate investors and cashed-up farming families buoyed by record commodity prices. Sue Neales Rabobank has recently reported that agricultural land prices across the country rose in 2021 by […]

An Australian organics industry consultant and beef producer is heading to Geneva, Switzerland next week to present to an international audience on Sustainability Standards in the meat and livestock sectors. Her address comes amid the current focus on environmental claims and “greenwashing.” As part of the United National Economic Commission for Europe’s seminar on Sustainable […]

Transforming a carpark into a helipad, and cold stores to emergency food supply storages – how Australia’s largest farmer-owned meat processing co-operative scrambled to help its local community in the wake of the February NSW flooding disaster.     WHEN floodwaters raged through the Northern Rivers in early 2022, few had seen anything like it. […]

ALMOST 15 years on from its inception, Australia’s northern beef industry is still cashing in on the insights and recommendations of its biggest single research activity, the CashCow project. Launched in 2007 with $2 million from Meat & Livestock Australia – its largest ever research investment at the time – CashCow collected data from 78,000 […]