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6 days ago | 
beefcentral.com | Terry Sim
SOUTH Australia has waived biosecurity inspection fees for drought-impacted local farmers importing fodder for interstate and updated import requirements for hay from Western Australia. Although biosecurity inspections of imported hay will continue, Department of Primary Industries and Regions SA said those farmers impacted by drought will have their fees waived.
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1 week ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
PEAK body Sheep Producers Australia has signed a $50,000-plus contract to provide business administration services to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry relating to the live sheep trade phaseout transition process.
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1 week ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
SUPER heavyweight lamb prices went on a record-breaking spree this week starting with $400 twice at Ballarat yesterday, then $403 at Horsham and $410 at Warracknabeal today. The price surge followed a “perfect storm” of difficulties getting lambs from Tasmania to the mainland for processing, rain in New South Wales restricting turnoff and a general shortage of quality heavy lambs across drought-affected Victoria.
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2 weeks ago | 
graincentral.com | Terry Sim
FEDERAL and state government assistance is needed urgently to meet the logistical challenge of fodder demands due to flood emergencies and drought across southern Australia, according to former Drought Taskforce member Tim Ford. Mr Ford was a member of the Prime Minister’s Drought Task Force during the 2017 -2020 drought and is chief executive officer of the online fodder hub Feed Central.
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2 weeks ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
VICTORIA’S councils are opposing the State Government’s emergency services levy, but have stopped short of refusing to collect the controversial tax. Just before thousands of volunteer firefighters and farmers rallied against the levy in Melbourne and in Warrnambool on Tuesday this week, the Municipal Association of Victoria resolved to oppose councils being the collector of the levy for the government.
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2 weeks ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
LAMB prices have risen sharply in saleyards nationally after the release of May-August forward contracts at rates of $8.70-$9.80 a kilogram and as yardings steady or start to drop. Thomas Foods International on Monday released a late May-August delivery contract for 22.11-34kg cwt lambs at its Stawell plant of $9.20-(.80/kg for crossbred lambs, $9-9.60/kg for Dorpers and $9.90-$9.50/kg for merino lambs for lines of more than 50 head.
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2 weeks ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
NATIONALS leader David Littleproud has added a further proviso to his party returning to a coalition with the Liberal Party under leader Susan Ley – support for live sheep and cattle exports by sea. In a press conference yesterday, Mr Littleproud said he would not support a Liberal-Nationals Coalition that supported the Labor Party’s ban on live sheep exports by sea. “No, and I made that very clear in the last Parliament,” Mr Littleproud said.
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3 weeks ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
VOLUNTEER fire brigades in Victoria have started to go offline in protest at emergency service levy legislation passing through parliament overnight. Victorian Farmers Federation president Brett Hosking said more than 150 Country Fire Authority volunteer brigades indicated they were considering going offline last night as members questioned their involvement in the CFA.
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1 month ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
INCREASED access into China for more Australian processors, strong global beef prices and declining sheep/lamb supplies are helping to drive mutton prices to their highest level in three years. On 28 April, it was announced that several Australian sheep meat processors had gained new or improved access into China.
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1 month ago | 
beefcentral.com | Terry Sim
LIVE sheep export by sea proponents unbowed by the Coalition’s loss in the federal election believe a majority Albanese Labor Government now had a chance to change its mind on phasing out the trade by 1 May 2028. Keep the Sheep spokesman and National Farmers Federation vice president John Hassell said the movement would keep going despite the Coalition losing its chance to carry out its promise to repeal the phaseout legislation.
