Beef Central

5 days ago | beefcentral.com | Liz Wells

VISITORS from across southern Queensland and beyond turned out in their thousands for the opening day of FarmFest, which this year is celebrating its 50th birthday. Originally held on government –owned at Wilsonton, on Toowoomba’s western edge the field days has since 2004 operated on its site in the farming district of nearby Kingsthorpe.

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.

6 days ago | beefcentral.com | Liz Wells

PRICES paid for wheat and barley have dropped by up to $10 per tonne in the past week on softer offshore markets, and patchy rain for the areas that need it in south-eastern Australia. Pockets of southern and central New South Wales got the best of the rain, while Victoria’s and South Australia’s main cropping regions generally got 10mm or less, although some recorded more than 25mm.

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Eric Barker

QUEENSLAND livestock transporters have unveiled a new purpose-built trailer to help the industry better respond to emergencies in the more populated areas of the state. With hundreds of cattle trucks heading into the south-east corner of Qld each week to service some of the country’s biggest processors, the need for purpose-built equipment to safely unload cattle in emergencies was raised to the Livestock & Rural Transporters Association of Queensland.

1 week ago | beefcentral.com | Jon Condon

VIGOROUS beef export sales into China in recent months has elevated the likelihood of Australia triggering its 2025 Safeguard tariff mechanism for the market, as early as late July or August. The Safeguard tariff is a mechanism used in a number of Australian beef importing countries where free trade agreements apply, including Korea, the United States and China. It is designed to help protect the local cattle industries from unusually large rises in imports, year-to-year.