A few months ago I visited Great Giant Livestock (GGL) which fattens, breeds and milks in the order of 20,000 cattle (mostly Australian) within the pineapple plantation where it utilizes much of the waste of the manufacturing processes at the same time as generating highly valued fertilizer to recycle back to the plantation. GGL is…
As see first on Central Station A lot of my work in Asia is with small farmers who receive imported Australian Brahman cross breeders. My main focus with these farmers is helping them to understand the special differences between Australian breeders and their local cattle. The indigenous cows are a Nelore type Bos indicus that…
Question. Why have Indonesian government policies been so unsuccessful at influencing their national beef industry? Answer. Because it is not really a beef industry. The Indonesian government is concerned about food security just like every other government around the world. High levels of beef and live cattle imports building up to huge volumes in 2009/2010…
44th Edition : July 2017. Key Points Australian dollar rise delivers more pain to Importers Australian producers continue to enjoy good prices while exporters, shipping companies and importers are all making losses. Vietnamese importers cut costs by increasing imports of cows and buffalo Indonesia : Slaughter Steers AUD $3.85 / kg live weight (Rp…
Australia has sold thousands of tropically adapted breeding cows to Asian countries over many decades with the majority going to Indonesia. During that time our cattle have gained a reputation for poor fertility which has even led to claims from some of our customers that we have either sold them females that are naturally…
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…
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…
Australian livestock exporters are currently negotiating with their importing customers in the USA to send feeder cattle across the Pacific to be fattened in their southwestern feedlots. There are still a number of administrative issues to resolve including some sticking points with the health protocol but these are expected to be sorted out with…
Southeast Asian Beef Market Report 