Category: australia
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How Bad Is It
One of the things that always catches my eye is talk of a drought. I know and understand the problems this situation causes. Australia is experiencing one this year and it is pretty bad. How bad is it?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>EMERGENCY supplies of grain will be imported to feed drought-stricken stock, as forecasts for Australia's winter…
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Down Under
Just a few different items from Australia that have caught my eye.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20596614-1702,00.html" >Drought hitting livestock prices</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>LIVESTOCK prices across NSW are in freefall, with farmers selling off record numbers of sheep and cattle as the drought worsens.<br />n<br />nMeat processors say they cannot take any more livestock, and producers say they…
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Competition
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=68223" >Australian Beef Producers Dread U.S. Re-entry Into Korea</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Australian beef industry analyst Peter Weeks of Meat and Livestock Australia predicts that Australia's beef producers will lose 30 percent of their market in South Korea when the United States resumes beef shipments in October.<br />n<br />n"We are looking at a 30 percent fall…
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Beef Checkoff News
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?ContentId=67537" >Jolley: The Checkoff – Two Decades Of Sleeping At The Financial Switch</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Beef industry leaders met in Kansas City this summer to take a fresh look at the Beef Checkoff program. The 17-member industry-wide Beef Checkoff Task Force established their mission this way: “to review, study and recommend enhancements to the Beef…
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Cowboys Who Don’t Know How To Ride
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0509/p01s02-woap.html">Australian cowboys learn once again how to ride a horse</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>What sort of self-respecting cowboy doesn't know how to ride a horse?<br />n<br />nApparently, the Australian kind. Many jackaroos and stockmen on the country's huge cattle ranches, or stations, have grown accustomed since the 1960s to rounding up herds with helicopters, motorbikes, and…
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False Information
<a href="http://www.meatnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Article&artNum=11085">AUSTRALIANS ANGERED OVER IDENTIFICATION RULES</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Australian beef producers have hit out at the imposition of a mandatory livestock identification system, which they say erodes the sector
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Australia Animal ID Broken
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2005/s1529007.htm">Livestock ID system not working, says agent</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The largest cattle agent at the biggest saleyards in Australia says the National Livestock Identification System equipment is not up to scratch and needs to be replaced.<br />n<br />nIt has been five months since Queensland's Roma saleyards spent $300,000 upgrading their facilities to cope with the…
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Australian Perspective on NAIS
<a href="http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/060123/15/3y45t.html">R-CALF Mtg: Australian Cattleman Tells Of ID Shortcomings</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>From cattle producer Athol Economou's perspective, Australia's national animal identification system is virtually useless, and the true costs are unknown.<br />n<br />n Economou, also a representative of the Australian Beef Association, made his remarks Friday at the R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America's annual convention in…
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Too Hot
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17787557%255E30417,00.html"> Record heat killing cattle</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> RECORD temperatures are placing a severe strain on the nation's cattle industry, slashing prices in three states as the intense heat kills cattle and calves in western Queensland.</blockquote><br />n<br />nDamn, I hate to read something like this. Australia might be a competitor for market share but I…