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Truck strike hurts beef exports
7/09/2008 | Australian beef and veal exports unexpectedly declined during August, as a widespread trucking strike throughout Queensland impacted cattle supplies and production, MLA reports.  | Share market pares back $30b in ... | Boorowa, NSW, property a ...
Rain saves Wodonga cattle market
5/09/2008 | God bless last week's rain! That was the most relevant response to yesterday's massive 5000 head store cattle sale at Wodonga where more than 70pc of the yarding spilled out of the worst drought-affected areas of the Riverina.  | Wool market finishes the week ... | Rain keeps coming for Qld and ... | VIDEO: Rain saves Wodonga cattle market
Australian beef fails to capitalise in Korea
4/09/2008 | Australian producers and exporters are not profiting from the anti-American beef furore still gripping South Korea.  | CommentsComments (1) | Rain keeps coming for Qld and ... | Rudd rejects Kernaghan's ...
Rain flushes out the buyers at Roma, Qld, store sale
3/09/2008 | A good shower of rain across Queensland's Maranoa region brought local cattle buyers out in force at Roma’s store sale yesterday, where prices were stronger across the board.  | New $33m animal science ... | TeMania southern sale called off | VIDEO: Rain flushes out the buyers at ...
New $33m animal science research facility opens
2/09/2008 | Protecting Queensland’s profitable beef industry while reducing food poisoning outbreaks in humans is just one proposed project to be conducted within the Centre for Advanced Animal Science.  | CommentsComments (1) | RSPCA ready to belt farmers | Over the hooks cow prices hit ...
1/09/2008 | No southern sale for TeMania
Charnock to disperse
1/09/2008 | CHARNOCK – one of the premier forces in the Hereford sale and show arena – is set to disperse its stud operation.
Over the hooks cow prices hit yearly high
1/09/2008 | Direct to works cow prices have reached a yearly high, with 240-280kg cwt cow prices averaging 267¢/kg cwt, according to MLA's market indicator.
Cattle quality mixed as EYCI slips
29/08/2008 | The benchmark Eastern Young Cattle Indicator came off the boil early this week, but stabilised towards the end of the week to finish Thursday trading 1¢/kg lower at 344.5¢/kg (carcase weight), according to Meat and Livestock Australia.  | Drought sale firm to easier for ... | Record returns from Australian ...
Indonesia live cattle record
28/08/2008 | Increasing consumer demand for beef driven by a growing economy, combined with growth in feedlot infrastructure has contributed to record live cattle exports to Indonesia during the 2007-08 fiscal year just completed.  | Roma feeders top 193c/kg | Don’t take our stock routes
Why it’s a bull market
28/08/2008 | News on the prime markets continues to be positive. With the fall in our $A, and customers coming on board for manufacturing beef, processors have once again lifted over-the-hook prices for cows and bulls.  | CommentsComments (3) | Indonesia live cattle record | Roma feeders top 193c/kg
Roma feeders top 193c/kg
27/08/2008 | Roma agents yarded a mixed quality offering of 7500 head at Tuesday's store sale, where the market struggled to maintain the strong rates of recent weeks.  | Games are over ... let the wool ... | Games are over ... let the wool ... | VIDEO: Roma feeders top 193c/kg
Santa bulls hit $40,000 high at Emerald
27/08/2008 | Santa bulls sold to a seasonal high of $40,000 at yesterdays annual Cardona Canowindra Santa Gertrudis Sale, Emerald.  | Brumby, ministers come under ... | Wool market slips a further 7c/kg
US feedlot numbers continue to shrink
26/08/2008 | The United States Department of Ariculture's new count on the number of cattle and calves in feedlots shows that the American cattle industry may be shrinking more than first thought.  | Rainfall draws property buyers ... | The big dry: it's not raining ...
$50,000 high for Palgrove Charolais bulls
25/08/2008 | Blue-ribbon Queensland Charolais stud, Palgrove, recorded a $50,000 top and an average of $7238 at its sale on Friday.  | Court decision a win for live ... | Nats Foods the front runner for ...
Swift investments drive Aust beef exports
23/08/2008 | A year after the biggest ownership shake-up in Australian red meat processing history, the business operations of JBS Friboi’s Swift Australia division have had some dramatic changes.  | Strong demand for quality prime ... | EU's added attraction in prime ...
Cattle breeders compete strongly for heifers
23/08/2008 | Northeast Victorian buyers, still gun-shy from a season needing rain, competed strongly, especially for young breeding females, at a 2000-head yarding of store cattle at Wodonga, Vic, on Thursday.  | VIDEO: Cattle breeders buy up heifers ...
Strong demand for quality prime cattle at Roma, Qld, sale
22/08/2008 | Heavy bullocks and steers were dearer than at last week's sale, in a larger yarding at Thursday’s Roma, Qld, prime cattle sale. Generally, cattlemen continued to enjoy strong demand for quality prime cattle.  | EU's added attraction in prime ... | Talking beef genetics on NSW ...
EU's added attraction in prime cattle market
22/08/2008 | A highlight of the prime market is the acceleration of prices for EU cattle. Southern Queensland works are now quoting up to 400c/kg dressed over-the-hook for suitable EU two and four-tooth steers.  | Canada confirms another case of ... | Roma cattle influx: 11,500 head
22/08/2008 | The latest improvements in beef genetics will be the focus of four mini-field days for beef producers on the NSW North Coast this month.
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3/09/2008 | They say those who can do and those who can't teach, but in the current economic climate for agriculture, it could well be a future of young people who 'can' having to settle for providing services to agribusiness corporations rather than doing it themselves.
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