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15 August 2019
The past financial year was a record breaker for Australian red meat and livestock exports, with beef, lamb and mutton all surpassing historical highs.

15 August 2019
A prolonged shortage of goats has seen year-to-June goat slaughter back 19% from the same period in 2018 and 21% below the 5-year average

15 August 2019
National lamb slaughter hit 2.16 million head in May, the third highest monthly total on record. Since then, the anticipated lamb shortage has appeared, with June slaughter back 33% month-on-month.

08 August 2019
Despite the challenging conditions NSW new season lambs have started to enter the market earlier than they have in the previous two years.

08 August 2019
Female cattle turnoff has reached record levels as severe water shortages across many key beef production regions has accelerated the pace of drought-induced destocking.

01 August 2019
Last month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released their collaborative global agricultural outlook for 2019.

01 August 2019
Brazil self-imposed a suspension on beef exports to China, its largest market, during the first half of June, following the discovery of an atypical case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

01 August 2019
The Eastern States Trade Lamb Indicator (ESTLI) eased to 895c/kg carcase weight (cwt) on Tuesday, while the WA equivalent finished at 850c/kg cwt, as the spread between the two indicators closed, largely driven by a cooling of eastern markets.

01 August 2019
On Monday the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) reached 534.25¢/kg carcase weight (cwt), its highest level so far in 2019, only to be outdone by the Western Young Cattle Indicator (WYCI) which also achieved a yearly high at 575.75¢/kg cwt.

25 July 2019
The US cattle herd cycle drives production of the world’s largest beef producer and has an overbearing effect on North American and Australian cattle prices.