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WA agriculture to get $8.6 million drought assistance package

PEAK sheep and cattle producer bodies have welcomed an $8.6 million support package for Western Australia’s agricultural industries and rural communities impacted by the current drought conditions…Read More

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

Wool

AWI leads last-minute call for grower submissions on EU labelling

AUSTRALIAN wool growers are being called on to make last-minute submissions to consultation on proposed European product environment footprint labelling rules for apparel and footwear that would favour synthetic over woollen garments…Read More

Terry Sim, April 26, 2024

Carbon

Paraway Pastoral to hold ‘Net Zero: Better for Business’ field day

ONE of Australia’s largest sheep producers Paraway Pastoral will hold a free ‘Net Zero: Better for Business’ field day at its Victorian Wimmera property Barton Station next month…Read More

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

News

Applications extended for NFF’s female leadership program

WOMEN wanting to increase their leadership skills and contribute to narrowing the gender gap in agriculture still have time to apply for the National Farmers’ Federation flagship Diversity in Agriculture Leadership Program. ..Read More

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

Wool Market Reports

China and India supply contracts help lift wool auction market

AUSTRALIA’S wool auction market lifted this week, led by increases in fine and medium Merino fleece prices…Read More

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

Wool Market Reports

Forward wool trading highlights need to have a target price

IT WAS an ambiguous week for selling wool, with auctions delivering the strongest single day rise in the AWEX Eastern Market Indicator on Tuesday since before Christmas, in Australian and US dollar terms…Read More

Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner, April 26, 2024

Property

Agribusiness leaders offer drought-proof farm in NSW

TWO agribusiness leaders have listed their highly developed, drought-proof farm running, what is believed to be, the largest Suffolk flock in Australia…Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, April 26, 2024

Property

South Australian and Victoria properties expected to make $57m-plus

AFTER A 12-month spending spree, Ararat-based Excel Farms and its Canadian investment fund partner are offloading two aggregations in South Australia and Victoria expected to raise more than $57 million…Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, April 26, 2024

Biosecurity

Concern biosecurity levy might compromise 2024 WoolPoll result

Terry Sim, April 24, 2024

Live Export

WA sheep industry seeks more time to export to Middle East

Sheep Central, April 24, 2024

Biosecurity

DAFF officials knock back ‘importer pays’ levy options

Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024

Wool

Have your say on shearer, wool classer and shed hand training

Sheep Central, April 24, 2024

Nutrition & Animal Health

Feedgrain Focus: Sowing limits grower selling

Liz Wells, April 24, 2024

Weather

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 23 April 2024

Bureau of Meteorology, April 23, 2024

Wool Processing

Crossbred lamb bioharvesting option could be ‘first cab off the rank’

A WOOL bioharvesting option for crossbred lambs with low value fleece could be first product of research to harvest wool without shearing, the University of Adelaide’s Professor Phil Hynd said at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide last week…Read More

Terry Sim, April 22, 2024

Live Export

WA sheep industry seeks more time to export to Middle East

TENS of thousands more sheep could be exported from Western Australia this year if the Federal Government agrees to a proposed 10-day relaxation on the departure date for Middle East live export shipments during the Northern Summer…Read More

Sheep Central, April 24, 2024

Community & Lifestyle

Consumer retail confidence lifting, but still patchy

AFTER a tough 2023, Australian consumer confidence is on the rise; however, it remains patchy, a new consumer survey has found…Read More

Sheep Central, April 22, 2024

Biosecurity

Wool industry to seek PICs for disease traceability

AUSTRALIA’S proposed wool traceability hub is aiming to achieve mandatory Property Identification Code declaration by all wool growers to facilitate an efficient emergency animal disease response…Read More

Terry Sim, April 22, 2024

Weather

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 23 April 2024

LIGHT to moderate rainfall impacted parts of the east coast of New South Wales as an upper level trough extended from central Queensland to northern and eastern parts of New South Wales, with rain totals generally below 25 mm…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, April 23, 2024

News

Big Lambex 2024 program released today

LAMBEX, the world’s biggest sheep, lamb and wool forum, today released the program for its 2024 event in Adelaide, South Australia, on 7-9 August…Read More

Sheep Central, April 22, 2024

Biosecurity

Concern biosecurity levy might compromise 2024 WoolPoll result

AUSTRALIAN wool growers might vote for a reduced levy for research, development and marketing this year if the proposed biosecurity protection levy was introduced, a Senate committee inquiry was told yesterday…Read More

Terry Sim, April 24, 2024

Biosecurity

Calls for a container charge instead of a biosecurity protection levy

THE push to introduce a container levy as a substitute for the controversial biosecurity protection levy is gaining momentum with producer groups, and freight groups support increased import charges rather than the Federal Government’s BPL proposal…Read More

Emma Alsop, April 22, 2024

Wild Dog & Pest Control

Senate report calls for moves to limit spread of fire ants

A SENATE report on the eradication efforts targeting fire ants in south-east Queensland has highlighted a severe and concerning lack of transparency from the primary organisation responsible for administering the program aimed at halting the spread of this destructive pest…Read More

Emma Alsop, April 22, 2024

Wool

Have your say on shearer, wool classer and shed hand training

A PROJECT aimed at redesigning training programs for shearers, wool classers and shed hands will hold in-person consultation workshops across Australia next month…Read More

Sheep Central, April 24, 2024

Industry Dashboard

Carbon Trading Market

Aust. Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) - $/tonne of CO2 equiv.

Today

Source: Jarden

$A / $US

Updated 7am daily

Today

0.6518

Source: NAB

ASX Market Index

26 Apr 2024 (updated 10am daily)

Company	Price	Trending
Elders	$8.96
Australian Agricultural Co	$1.52
Graincorp	$7.29
Ridley	$2.12
Woolworths	$36.64
Wellard	$0.06

Source: ASX

SOI Graph

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Today

-0.86

Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

ESTLI

Eastern States Trade Lamb Indicator. Ac/kg cwt

Last Week

633.2

Source: MLA's NLRS

EMI

Eastern Market Indicator. c/kg clean

Today

1158

Source: Australian Wool Exchange

Goat

Eastern States 12.1-16kg c/kg cwt

Today

Source: MLA

ASX Market Index

26 Apr 2024 (updated 10am daily)

Company	Price	Trending
Elders	$8.96
Australian Agricultural Co	$1.52
Graincorp	$7.29
Ridley	$2.12
Woolworths	$36.64
Wellard	$0.06

Source: ASX

What readers are saying

WA sheep industry seeks more time to export to Middle East

They wont release the report because they know what it's going to say. Nothing agreeing with Albo and you're not allowed to disagree with Albo. They have been told....

Glenn Nix

Innovative WA sheep farmer makes ‘serious cry for help’

Katrina Love you have told me in the past there is enough processing to handle the live sheep ... well you’re wrong. They won’t even look at buying shipping....

Glenn Nix

Crossbred lamb bioharvesting option could be ‘first cab off the rank’

Hi, I see so much upside for producers. Your approach is so good. Congrats to the top notch researchers.....

David Griggs

Innovative WA sheep farmer makes ‘serious cry for help’

We are advised to euthanise our sheep, because of over-supply and possible drought, yet I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the ad to donate to the starving....

Geoff Richardson

WA agriculture to get $8.6 million drought assistance package

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

AWI leads last-minute call for grower submissions on EU labelling

Terry Sim, April 26, 2024

Applications extended for NFF’s female leadership program

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

Concern biosecurity levy might compromise 2024 WoolPoll result

Terry Sim, April 24, 2024

Markets

China and India supply contracts help lift wool auction market

AUSTRALIA’S wool auction market lifted this week, led by increases in fine and medium Merino fleece prices…Read More

Sheep Central, April 26, 2024

Forward wool trading highlights need to have a target price

Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner, April 26, 2024

Merino lambs and scanned ewe prices lift on AuctionsPlus

MERINO wether and ewe lamb prices increased on AuctionsPlus last week, along with values for most scanned in-lamb ewe categories…Read More

Sheep Central, April 22, 2024

Currency rates lift wool prices but demand stays the same

CURRENCY exchange rates lifted Australia’s wool auction market this week and growers responded by holding fewer bales back…Read More

Sheep Central, April 19, 2024

Feedgrain Focus: North firms, south softens as planting starts

TRADED volume in feed grain in the north remains thin as the market waits for a clearer picture of sorghum quality post-rain to develop…Read More

Liz Wells, April 15, 2024

Feedgrain Focus: Prices jump after wet week for sorghum

PRICES for wheat, barley and sorghum have risen by at least $10 per tonne in the past week, with rain on ripe Downs sorghum crops being the big local driver…Read More

Liz Wells, April 8, 2024

Feedgrain Focus: Rain firms northern market

PRICES for feed grain in the northern market have lifted this week in response to rain that has stopped or slowed the sorghum harvest and outturn of all grains…Read More

Liz Wells, March 28, 2024

Wool Production

McCullough’s departure ends controversial post at AWI

FORMER chief executive of Australian Wool Innovation Stuart McCullough has been made redundant, ending his controversial 30-month overseas appointment…Read More

Sheep Central, April 9, 2024

DAFF allows AWI to change scope of mulesed wool recommendation

AUSTRALIA’S Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry has allowed the nation’s wool grower levy funded body to change the scope of a high priority performance review recommendation on consumer attitudes to mulesed wool, denying growers key market knowledge…Read More

Terry Sim, April 3, 2024