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1 week 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 week 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.
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1 week ago | 
sheepcentral.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.
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2 weeks ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
WANNON electorate independent candidate Alex Dyson has refused to state whether he supported or opposed live animal exports in the lead up to the federal election, sparking industry concern. The Albanese Government’s phaseout of the live sheep trade by sea is seen as a ‘red line’ issue by Australian agriculture and 23 farming organisations signed a letter to the Prime Minister in 2023 seeking the reversal of the proposed May 2028 ban.
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3 weeks ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
EXPERIENCED ultrafine wool producers from Tasmania and Victoria have dominated the prestigious 2025 Zegna Wool Awards. The Tasmanian operation of Ann Louise and Simon Cameron won the 2025 Wool Trophy for a bale of ultrafine wool and the Vellus Aureum Trophy for a fleece was won for the eighth time by Victorian growers David and Susan Rowbottom. Simon Cameron said the Kingston operation has won the trophy twice in the last five years and come second three times.
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1 month ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
AUSTRALIA’S wool industry is grieving the loss of inspirational Italian processor Alberto Barberis Canonico, an engineer and company leader who fostered the development of this nation’s superfine wool sector. A company statement announced the passing of Mr Barberis Canonico, a mechanical engineering graduate that rose to become chief executive officer of the holding company Lanificio Vitale Barberis Canonico SpA and chairman of the Vitale Barberis Canonico SpA board.
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1 month ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
UNCERTAINTY about the impact of American president Donald Trump’s tariffs on China and global wool demand is wracking Australia’s wool industry. About 86 percent of Australia’s wool goes to China for processing for domestic sale or for re-sale as yarn, fabric or garments for sale overseas. Half of the Australian wool exported to China is absorbed domestically and half is exported after processing to mainly Europe and to a lesser extent America.
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1 month ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
AN American sheep industry leader expects Australia will need to address lamb and beef import issues together for its response to United States President Trump’s 10 percent tariff to be “significant for consideration.”The American Sheep Industry Association has welcomed President Trump’s decision, but has also suggested the proposed 10pc tariff on Australian and New Zealand lamb imports could be reviewed if import volumes are not curbed sufficiently.
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1 month ago | 
beefcentral.com | Terry Sim
SOLID service has made Hodge Livestock Transport a growing business transporting livestock from Australia’s Apple Isle to mainland processors and across southern Australia. The third generation Ballan-based business run by brothers Kailey and Rob Hodge has about 50 trailers regularly going back and forth to Tasmania, carting mainly sheep but also cattle, and six B-Doubles working on the mainland. “We do about 70 percent sheep in our business,” Rob said.
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1 month ago | 
sheepcentral.com | Terry Sim
GLOBAL demand for sheep meat and animal protein generally is expected to mute the impact on Australian lamb producers of the 10 percent tariff on US imports announced by US president Donald Trump today. And although the tariff has been welcomed by US lamb producers, Sheep Central has been told it is well below what was requested and they will monitor its impact on pricing, import volumes and domestic production.
