Matt Brann
Host at ABC News (Australia)
Host at Northern Territory Country Hour
I work for the Country Hour and ABC Landline. Keeping it Rural in the Northern Territory 🥭🐂🐊
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
About 300 abattoirs in the United States still have not had their export licences renewed to export beef to China — and it seems Australia is filling the gap. Before Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff hikes, American beef exporters were already facing problems with their third-largest market.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
Michael Every is a global strategist for Rabobank, based in Singapore. His presentation this week at the Northern Australia Food Futures conference stunned the audience. He said ongoing commentary about Trump's tariffs was missing the bigger picture. He said most nations, including Australia, had not grasped the seriousness of what's happening in the world — and there were much bigger threats on the horizon. He spoke to ABC Rural about the risks and opportunities ahead.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
When explaining his decision to put 10 per cent tariffs on Australian imports, US President Donald Trump singled out beef. "Australia bans — and they're wonderful people, and wonderful everything — but they ban American beef," he said. "Yet we imported $[US]3 billion of Australian beef from them just last year alone. They won't take any of our beef."But is the US president correct? Global Agritrends global meat trader and analyst Simon Quilty remembers trading imported US beef in the 1990s.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
There are five live export ships due out of Darwin Port over the next six days. With rain pouring down in the Northern Territory and western Queensland flooded — where are the cattle coming from to fill these ships? ABC Rural spoke to Nick Thorne from Cedar Park export depot and Charles Vaughan, the northern procurement manager for Austrex.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
Northern Australia's cattle industry says it is "coming with a vengeance" for compensation as it heads back to Federal Court next month to resolve the long-running class action against the Commonwealth's live export ban in 2011. The cattle industry won its class action in 2020 but hundreds of claimants are still waiting for compensation. Outgoing NT Cattlemen's Association chief executive Will Evans said the industry had been led along for years.
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Day 2 of #NAFF25 Country Hour #podcast 🍇 Grape opportunities in the north! 📊 @RabobankAU global strategist Michael Every 🥭 What’s the future of the Food Futures conf? 🚜 NT cattle stations diversifying into cotton/corn @CottonAustralia https://t.co/cqqIAnlPhW
The WA Government’s plan for the Ord Irrigation Scheme 🚜 By 2028 there should be 33,000 hectares in production (by 2034 it will be 50,000ha) The Ord’s cotton gin set to open this year - with the region expected to produce 100,000 bales #NAFF25 https://t.co/ZwPzp0Gdd8