http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk This is the RSS syndication feed for MeatTradeNewsDaily.co.uk. Renegade animal activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has ramped up its campaign against the Australian wool industry. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___activists_crank_up_campaign_against_wool_industry.aspx weeklytimesnow.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT According to ABC, researchers at the Pork Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) claim the amount of time a sow is kept in a narrow stall can be reduced dramatically, to only one week http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___animal_welfare_and_pigs_.aspx abc.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT First cross ewes sold to $216 at the on-property dispersal sale of Kevin Mullan, Roylin Park, Kongorong, on Monday. After 40 years of breeding sheep, Kevin decided to sell his 4000-head ewe flock after he leased his land out. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___breeding_ewes__a_pop_.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT They were cautious of the response in Australia’s Merino dominated state. But what the organisiers of the first Australian shedding sheep, or cleanskin organisation, did not bank on was packing out an Adelaide showground’s exhibition room with 230 people – 90 per cent producers - from six states of Australia and United States, South Africa and New Zealand at its first Australian symposium. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___clean_skin_sheep_.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Glenlands Droughtmaster Stud, Bouldercombe, dominated proceedings at the weekend's Inverell Droughtmaster Feature Show. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___droughtmaster_cattle_.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Water levels have begun to drop in the flood-bound towns of Charleville and Roma in the state's southern inland, but local authorities warn the crisis is far from over. About 220 people stayed overnight at an evacuation centre in Charleville and 700 people have left their homes and staying with friends and family in Roma. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___flood_crisis_on_queensland_.aspx abc.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sheep meat export forecast for 2009-10 has been cut to 286 kilotonnes, but prospects for sustained strong and improved prices for lamb and sheep remain good. The sheep meat export forecast by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) is down by five per cent on current season volumes, but the expected fall in mutton exports prompting this downgrade is tipped to be offset by increased export volumes of lamb. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___lamb_price_up_numbers_down_.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Rural lobby group AgForce says reports are only beginning to emerge of significant stock losses as a result of the flooding in southern Queensland. The group will work with Queensland Government officials over the next two days to survey flood-affected areas around Charleville, Cunnamulla, Eulo and St George. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150310/australia___livestock_losses_in_flooded_regions_.aspx abc.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Milk prices are predicted to rise and the Aussie milk price should stop its decline and make a small comeback, according to ABARE. But farmers must first survive this financial year. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___milk_prices_on_the_mend.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Cattle prices rose, with heavy feeder steers topping at $2.75/kg at Mount Compass market today (Wednesday). Prostock's Kym Endersby said an overall shortage of cattle meant the market strengthened "quite a bit". http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___store_cattle_kg_.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Tasmanian Government is reviewing regulations introduced to protect the state's fine wool industry from contamination with coarse and coloured fibres from exotic meat sheep like the dorper, damara and awassi http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___tasmania_separates_the_meat_from_the_wool.aspx abc.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT ABARE's beef forecasts point to increased competition from US beef in key Australian markets which will see further declines in domestic beef prices over the coming year. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___tough_times_for_beef_industry_.aspx farmonline.com.au Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The ABARE Outlook conference for 2010 has forecast a lower price for beef, due to the combined influence of a higher Australian dollar and increased competition in key export markets such as Japan and the Republic of Korea. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/australia___beef_exports_to_usa_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Are beef producers finally witnessing a turnaround in the price of beef - which has been low since the start of the year? Apart from Dublin, where prices have been quite erratic over the past month leading to an ebb and flow of numbers with each week's up and down price movements, the South East markets at Naracoorte, Mount Gambier and Millicent have attracted a steady rise in price over the past three weeks. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/australia___bounce_in_the_beef_trade_.aspx farmonline.com.au Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT At Toowoomba Elders numbers slipped and the quality was boosted by the Millmerran Show prime cattle exhibits. Lightweight yearling steers to feed averaged 4¢ dearer at 188¢, with a good selection of heavyweights to the trade averaging 182¢/kg. Medium weight 2 score cows averaged 122¢ up 2¢/kg. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/australia___cattle_market_prices_.aspx MLA.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Bowing to pressure from talkback radio, the opposition and its own backbench, the federal government has delayed for two years a policy to allow beef imports from countries that have had mad cow disease. Last week the Trade Minister, Simon Crean, said a risk analysis into the new import regime would be pointless because it would not tell the government anything it did not know. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/australia___government_cave_in_on_beef_imports.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The question of whether intensive animal rearing, like cattle lotfeeding or housed pig and poultry production, is better for the planet than extensive grazing systems is much more complicated than just the issue of greenhouse intensity http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/220210/australia___looking_at_farming_.aspx farmonline.com.au Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The reputation of Australian beef is expected to take a hammering in the weeks ahead as Coalition Senators and a producer rebellion intensifies their rhetoric in the push to exclude the importation of US beef. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/opposition_doing_more_damage_to_beef_industry_than_bse_.aspx farmonline.com.au Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Another year of high prices and profitability is forecast for Australia’s lamb producers, underpinned by strong overseas and domestic demand for the product. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/the_lamb_trade.aspx MLA.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Cattle supply increased across all centres reported by MLA’s NLRS. The majority of the rise was due to the upcoming Labour Day public holiday which is going to impact on markets on Monday and Tuesday. However the recent improving prices and with quality starting to fall away in some areas were also factors in the extra supply. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150310/australia___cattle_market_prices_.aspx MLA.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT National cattle throughput at saleyards increased by 14.6 per cent in February compared to the same period in 2009, however, numbers remains 5pc lower on the five-year average, according to Meat and Livestock Australia http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___cattle_numbers_up_.aspx farmonline.com.au Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Cattle exports to Egypt have resumed with Wellard Rural Exports sending a consignment of 16,460 cattle aboard the MV Ocean Shearer from Fremantle this week http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___live_cattle_for_egypt_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The pig industry could be on the verge of an animal welfare breakthrough. Researchers at the Pork Co-operative Research Centre claim the amount of time a sow is kept in a narrow stall can be reduced dramatically, to only one week http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___pig_industry_hopes_to_cut_time_sows_are_restrained_in_stalls.aspx abc.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT As AWI was left this week to contemplate a future with a fourth chief executive at the helm in four years, distinguished Merino identity Charles Massy said Brenda McGahan's resignation was “yet another” reason why the organisation should be scrapped. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___professional_board_members_crippling__the_industry_.aspx farmonline.com.au Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A $9 million dollar livestock selling centre proposed for Goulburn in south-east NSW has been rejected http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010310/australia___saleyards_plan_for_goulburn_rejected.aspx abc.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Lamb numbers lifted around 4% across MLA’s NLRS reported markets, as last weeks dearer prices enticed a few more lambs onto the market. Extra lambs were penned at Bendigo and Ballarat, while numbers held firm at Hamilton. Reduced competition was the mainstay for trade and heavy lambs sales, although several drafts of heavy lambs sold around recent levels. A factor behind this was a Victorian export processor which has closed operations for three months. There was however very solid restocker and feedlot inquiry which resulted in their prices remaining firm. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150310/australia___the_lamb_market_.aspx MLA.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Victorian Farmers Federation has joined former monopoly wheat exporter AWB in expressing concern about falling quality of wheat http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/australia___vff_backs_awb_concerns_about_wheat_quality.aspx abc.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT "How can you trust these people that are representing you?" said rebel beef processor J.R. McDonald. "They’re going to destroy you. And as I say, they all have to be wiped out." http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/australia___quothow_can_you_trust_these_people_that_are_representing_youquot_says_beef_packer.aspx farmonline.com.au Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Brenda McGahan has become the third head of Australian Wool Innovation to leave in four years. ''It's been a matter of public record that we have had a divided board,'' she said. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100310/australia___awi_board_quotpoisonous_strange_and_nastyquot.aspx farmonline.com.au Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A beef industry leader wants a formal apology from the Federal Opposition for scaring the public about imports http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/australia___cattle_council_wants_opposition_to_apologise.aspx abc.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Dairy farmers should be cautiously optimistic over the coming months as milk prices improve and for most irrigators, water allocations look the best they have for four years http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/220210/australia___cautious_optimism_for_dairy_industry_.aspx farmonline.com.au Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Already reeling from abattoir closures, the meat industry is bracing for more volatility including a spike in lamb prices http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/240210/australia___getting_used_to_high_meat__prices.aspx farmonline.com.au Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Eastern States over-the-hooks goat prices have followed the rapid increase in mutton prices over the past year http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/australia___goats_ride_sheeps_back.aspx MLA.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT There is no chance that beef sourced from cattle infected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, will be allowed into Australia under changes to import regulations to come into force Monday, Trade Minister Simon Crean said Wednesday http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/australia___imported_beef__safe_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT An increasing demand for protein, primarily beef and lamb, in Asia has seen Macquarie Group quietly become one of the country's largest private landowners and cattle and sheep producers in less than three years http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020310/australia___new_cattle_king_.aspx farmonline.com.au Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT With another major rain event unfolding across the NT, and due to drift into southern Queensland over coming days, livestock turnoff remains low across all species, causing major problems for abattoirs and exporters http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/australia__rain_keeps_numbers_low.aspx MLA.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The US beef industry has called on Australia to defy growing criticism and stand by plans allow imports from disease-prone countries http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010310/australia___relazing_beef_imports_a_good_thing_.aspx abc.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Food labeling standards in Australia are misleading consumers about the conditions of local farm animals, says a leading animal rights group http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030310/australia___rspca_jump_on_the_bandwagon_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The livestock manager of Australia’s largest small animal processing business, Paul Leonard, has warned of further regional meatworks closures as high sheep prices and the lofty Australian dollar continue to squeeze profit margins http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/australia___tampr_pastoral_talk_on_meat_industry_.aspx farmonline.com.au Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Queensland Government says it is trialing two types of tags to track kangaroos which are harvested for meat http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030310/australia___tagging_kangaroos_but_who_will_catch_them_.aspx abc.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The US and Canada lobbied Canberra at least 30 times over 18 months to lift its import ban on beef from countries with cases of mad cow disease http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/australia___the_power_of_the_us_beef_lobby_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT In the days when Les Turner and his mates worked at the Newmarket stockyards, retail butchers used to put sawdust on the floor. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/230210/australia___a_cattle_drovers_tale__.aspx farmonline.com.au Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A large goat exporter from northern NSW is still looking for an alternative abattoir, three weeks after the closure of Burrangong Meat Processors in Young. AusGoat sends 95 per cent of its meat overseas, including to North America and Asia http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030310/australia___abattoir_closure_delays_goat_export_0.aspx abc.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Filed in Australia, Meat & Poultry, Oceania, Research, The Americas, USA on Australia is one of the largest meat exporters in the world and is a world leader in halal production http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140210/australia___australian_halal_meat_report.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Cattle Council of Australia says a Senate inquiry looking at beef imports from BSE-infected countries is "mischievous" and damaging to the beef industry http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/010310/australia___cattle_council_attacks_mad_cow_senate_inquiry_0.aspx abc.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Even though the supply of trade and export cattle was slightly larger by 10%, processors have commented that there is a shortage of suitable cattle for boxed beef, trade bodies and cattle for export at the moment http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/australia___cattle_market_prices_.aspx MLA.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A large meat processing and distribution company based in Armidale in NSW has been sold http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020310/australia___country_fresh_meat_packers_sold.aspx abc.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT ON JANUARY 16, 2006, John Agius, SC, began lifting the lid on how AWB sold wheat to Iraq when the international community was trying to apply maximum economic pressure on Saddam Hussein http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/270210/australia___john__hoawards_government_and_iraq__bribery_case_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Time to reconsider the MLA’s international role, including the possibility of shutting down MLA’s international offices and letting exporters and government trade offices handle meat marketing. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/060310/australia___proposals_from_bindaree_beef_packers_mla_should_close_offices.aspx farmonline.com.au Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The push is on in the grains industry to adopt the United States' model of promoting wheat http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/australia___push_for_better_australian_wheat_promotion.aspx abc.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT