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Opinion: Big conservation now bullying family farmers

3 days ago | beefcentral.com | Eric Barker

THE Australian Conservation Foundation last week launched its latest attack on Australian beef producers, with several media outlets quickly turning around the conservation giant’s allegations of illegal land clearing with little scrutiny – forcing the industry to defend itself.
Sun sets on PCAS pasturefed cattle assurance era

5 days ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

THE pioneering, industry-initiated Pasturefed Cattle Assurance Scheme (PCAS) will cease to exist at the end of this year. Auditing and certification body AusMeat has contacted stakeholders this week advising them that PCAS will be discontinued, after 12 years of operation.
Heifers dominating supply in many yards feeding domestic cattle for Woolies, Coles

6 days ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

BIG price differences between lighter feeder steers and heifers this year have motivated a large swing towards feeding heifers for Coles and Woolworths supermarket supply. It’s not that uncommon for heifers to outnumber steers a little in supermarket programs, but some yards in both NSW and Queensland holding domestic contacts are currently feeding nothing but females, they told Beef Central last week.
Grainfed beef showcase reflects industry’s surging momentum

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

THE first of a series of grainfed beef showcases held at a top Brisbane restaurant last week underlined the momentum in grainfed beef production and export that’s happened in recent times. In response to growing global demand for quality grainfed beef, Australian cattle numbers on feed hit another record high in the March quarter at 1.5 million head. In April this year, grainfed exports reached their highest ever monthly volume at 37,038t.
Australia ranked world’s best destination for steak restaurants, with Sydney the top city

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

An attempt to rank the best destinations in the world for steak restaurants has placed Australia, and the city of Sydney, on top of the pile. Last month in a report issued by a UK-based group called World Best Steaks.com, Australia topped statistics by country, with 17 entries (16.8pc) among the 101 best steak restaurants in the world for 2025. Australia’s top entry, Neil Perry’s Sydney restaurant Margaret, was placed second, behind top-placed Don Julio in Parrilla, Buenos Aires.
Modest $10 loss on grainfed trading budget, latest breakeven shows

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

TYPICAL flatback feeder steers entering a shortfed program this week and closing in early October would deliver a modest $10 profit, Beef Central’s latest 100-day grainfed trading budget calculation suggests. Better-performing cattle producing higher average daily gains of 2.2kg would fare a little better than that, returning a profit of $90, the latest calculation shows.
Trend towards shortfeeding cows may have come to a close

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

WITH lighter cows under considerable price pressure in parts of eastern and southern Australia over the past six months, there’s evidence that some cows have been directed into grain-assist programs, either in commercial feedlots or using self-feeders in the paddock.
Weekly kill: Southern processors making their presence felt in Qld

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

WITH only a fortnight left in the 2024-25 financial year, tax considerations are coming into play for some cattle producers, with some electing to push slaughter cattle back until after June 30 on accountants’ advice. The same thing happens every year, but the impact is amplified in years like this when kill space becomes tight in some areas.
WTF is a Flux Tower?

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | James Nason

AT first glance they could be mistaken for the world’s loneliest mobile phone towers. But rather than helping people to phone a friend, the steel masts and high-tech sensors now appearing across a network of grazing properties are being used to communicate the story of how carbon is being captured in Australian cattle paddocks.
Red barns turn into high-rises as US loses more than 800ha of farmland/day

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Eric Barker

RED barns are being turned into high rise apartments at a rapid rate across the United States, with the beef industry now trying to find ways of preventing a “runaway sprawl” scenario. The situation was one of the main topics at the recent US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef conference in Fort Worth, Texas. Alongside neighbouring Dallas, Fort Worth is one of the country’s most rapidly sprawling cities, with the Dallas-Fort Worth “metroplex” home to 8m people as of July last year.