Beef Industry News and Views
COLES has no problems with hormones in its meat – but consumers do. That’s the reason the retail giant has given for introducing its hormone growth promotant-free beef buying program and advertising campaign. Coles merchandise director John Durkan told last week’s NSW Farmers Association conference in Sydney the company was simply responding to consumers’ wishes. [...]
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Domestic beef sales have recovered in the wake of the ABC Four Corners program exposing the mistreatment of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs, but public perception of Australian beef remains a major worry, Woolworths fresh food general manager Pat McEntee said. Beef sales in Woolworths, took a hit following last month’s scandal, but were now [...]
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The local grocery store is advertising steaks from Australia and lamb from New Zealand. Even if that grocery store were right next door to a slaughterhouse processing cattle, there is an excellent chance that grass-fed Canadian beef would find its way to a boutique grocer in California before it turned up in a store just [...]
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Negotiations by the Hon Tim Groser, has delivered a great opportunity for the beef industry to export grain-fed beef into the European Union (EU). Not only that, it also creates added opportunities for New Zealand’s arable sector too. “It’s an encouraging sign that despite the US debt crisis amidst the EU’s own sovereign debt issues, [...]
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A senior rural financial counsellor who has been working in the Northern Territory for the past week says the severity of the financial turmoil created by the live export ban is worse than she had imagined. Kay Matthias is the general manager of the federally-funded Rural Financial Counselling Service based in South Australia. She travelled [...]
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The live cattle export trade to Indonesia could fall by about two-thirds before the wet season starts in northern Australia, Top End beef producers warn. That means room will have to be found for about 300,000 head of cattle back home. There is still no sign the federal government will grant permits to Indonesia, despite [...]
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By Milanda Rout/theaustralian.com.au AN economist warned in March that any suspension of live cattle exports could cost the beef industry at least $80 million and would have a significant impact on prices across the country. Months before the Gillard government decided to temporarily suspend trade in the wake of animal cruelty concerns, the Centre for [...]
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Livestock agents say the high Australian dollar is the main reason behind the drop in cattle numbers at western Queensland saleyards. Falling beef prices have forced the cancellation of cattle sales in Longreach and Blackall and there are fears the sale in Winton could follow suit. Brendan Wade from the Australian Livestock and Property Agents [...]
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AUSTRALIANS Supporting Beef Farmers are apologising to the Indonesian Feedlotter Association about the cattle export bans. ASBF was set up by a group of Queensland producers following the Federal Government’s live cattle export ban. The group’s chairwoman Kelsey Neilson is sending a letter to Indonesian Feedlotter Association executive director Joni Liano in Jakarta Selatan in [...]
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Daniel Beard, from Forbes, says beef producers in the region are taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to whether the oversupply of cattle in northern markets will filter through. The National Farmers’ Federation says there’s been a slump in cattle prices at sales during the past three weeks in South Australia and Victoria. However Mr [...]
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