Cattle Price News

Coonamble land swap
Land
“Sandy Camp” has been managed in recent years as a cropping and cattle operation and now has about 720ha under fodder oats and barley. ...

Australia - JBS-Swift have invested $330 million in Australian meat trade
Meattradenewsdaily (blog)
“I want to get out of this view that the cattle or lamb price is too high. If we can market the product properly, and that adds value to it, we will be very ...

A Darwin man aged in his 40s has been killed in a crash on the Stuart Highway in Darwin's south.

Reinventing agriculture's 800 pound gorilla
Stock and Land
“I want to get out of this view that the cattle or lamb price is too high. If we can market the product properly, and that adds value to it, we will be very ...

Rural Report for Western Queensland, Wednesday 11th August 2010
ABC Local
Most classes of young lightweight cattle continue to improve in price with fierce competition between local and interstate processors as well as restockers.

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PRESS DIGEST-Australian General News - Aug 11
Reuters
David Farley, managing director of Australia's biggest cattle producer, Australian Agricultural Company, said "[Higher prices] are going to flow through to ...

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Don't ban live cattle exports
Weekly Times Now
No new permits to slaughter without stunning have been granted by the Australian Government since 2007. In November last year, Federal Agriculture Minister ...
Ban live trade, says RSPCAWeekly Times Now

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AAco pares back loss from last year's $30.3m to $12.2m
The Australian
They have set limits on the size of cattle being imported or plan to do so. Currently most of AAco's stock raised in its northern properties are shipped ...

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The Junee Liberal Senator, Bill Heffernan, has raised concern about the sale of Rockdale Beef to JBS Swift of Brazil.

Wheat price tipped to top $330 a tonne
Herald Sun
The price of Australian wheat has rocketed since May, rising 39 per cent since AWB issued its first forecast for next season's crop. ...

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Rural Report for Kimberley: Tuesday August 10th 2010
ABC Local
The Cattle Council of Australia has confirmed the cut to import numbers to Indonesia and says it's concerned about domestic cattle prices. ...

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While Labor's election campaign is firmly focused on a sustainable population policy, critics say the party has failed to come to grips with the nation's future food security.

US investigators working with Interpol are understood to have tracked 200 bank accounts linked to alleged North Korean drugs, counterfeiting, money-laundering and arms activities.

Cabinet is meeting in Roma in southern inland Queensland today, in the wake of angry farmers who protested on Sunday against mining projects in their regions.

Jobs situation takes center stage
Futures Magazine
We feel hog prices could decline further based on weak fundamentals but would use buy stop protection on any new short positions. October live cattle closed ...

For the Week Ending August 8th, 2010
FXstreet.com The Forex Market
The US dollar is showing signs of downside price exhaustion, and I anticipate a strong rally to ensue during the month of August. The Australian dollar has ...

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Rain has finally fallen across the Wheatbelt bringing welcome respite to worried farmers who had been facing a disastrous season.

Analysing the red-meat trend
Weekly Times Now
Australian beef production will hit record levels in 2012, thanks to a combination of herd expansion and more cattle to kill, plus higher carcass weights. ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Libs are breeds apart
Sydney Morning Herald
One minute he comes out strongly against racism, the next he wants to ban bongs and allow cattle back into alpine national parks. ...

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More test results from a coal gasification plant in Queensland's south Burnett region have indicated no dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals in bore water.