34th Edition : September 2016. Key Points Indonesian policies threatening industry viability Indo Feedlots predicted to be virtually out of slaughter cattle by January 2017 Vietnamese importers are the beneficiary as ships are diverted away from Indonesia Brazilian product hits the Beijing supermarket shelves Indonesia : Slaughter Steers AUD $4.27 / kg live weight…
First posted in Central Station. After more than 40 years of terrible prices, it is a delightful change to finally see producers getting a much fairer share of the value of their commodity. For four decades, the attractive margins have always been further down the supply chain with everyone else down the line relying on…
First posted in Central Station Every cattle producer in Australia is no doubt delighted with the sudden rise in prices that began in mid 2014 then really took off through 2015 culminating in $3.90 per kg live being paid for feeders in Darwin during the 15/16 wet season. I started predicting $3 per kg live…
This story was first published on Central Station The featured photo is from a dairy farm in Malaysia. Dairy farmers in Malaysia get about $2.50 per litre for their fresh milk! Fair Trade is a global movement which promotes fairness in trading supply chains and is primarily focused on producers of commodities in areas where…
When the Indonesian government officially permitted the importation of Indian buffalo beef on the 8th of June 2016, it triggered events that will result in a tectonic shift in the Indonesia beef industry with significant but less dramatic impacts in Australia. If the importation of Indian beef had been approved about 3 or 4 years…
The world is short of beef cattle while very few countries have “spare” land to substantially expand their breeding herds. Brazil is about the only country with the resources to grow 10’s of millions of additional breeders. But that will take a decade or more. Meanwhile global demand continues to rise with China leading the…
Fact: In response to public complaints about rising beef prices during 2014, the Indonesian government drastically reduced import permits for beef and live cattle. Fact: As a result of reduced inventories and the prospects of even less supply, importers slowed the rate of daily sales into the slaughter market to ensure that they would not…
Get ready for a 5 year revolution of the northern Australian beef production model On the 1st of March Beef Central presented an article in which ABARES predicted further rises in beef prices for 2016/17 followed by a slow herd rebuilding process that by 2020 would more or less take the industry back to where…
For the last 20 to 30 years the world has had a comfortable understanding of beef and cattle markets. Essentially there were plenty of cattle and beef around the globe with consistent over supply from a number of large exporting regions including north America, south America, India and Australia keeping a firm lid on international…
Last week I spent a day with a group of Western Australian producers and industry representatives who were visiting some feedlots in Indonesia. Inevitably the subject got around to recent predictions that feeder cattle prices could reach $4 per kg once Australia experiences widespread drought-breaking rains. One of the lines of discussion was that…
