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Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 23 June 2025

WEEKLY rainfall totals of 10-50 mm were recorded across western and southern Western Australia, much of Tasmania and areas of southern and eastern Victoria…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, June 24, 2025

Wool Processing

WoolClip uptake at 20pc as eBale wool pack use increases

ADOPTION of key traceability efficiency tools available to wool growers, exporters and brokers remains incomplete in the Australian wool industry despite market feedback of other countries’ pre-eminence…Read More

Terry Sim, June 23, 2025

Animal ID and monitoring

WA saleyards and processors get ready for sheep and goat EID

WESTERN Australia’s saleyards and processors will start scanning electronic identification ear tags in sheep, lambs and goats next week as part of the national traceability system rollout…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Community & Lifestyle

National farmer campaign against the federal super tax calls for support

FARMERS nationally are being asked to join a campaign to stop the Federal Government’s proposed super tax as concerns are raised about its likely impact on farm succession…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Nutrition & Animal Health

Feedgrain Focus: Wheat kicks on offshore rally

A RALLY in offshore wheat prices has kicked local values higher and sparked a surge in traded volumes as cautious optimism about south-eastern Australia’s season builds…Read More

Liz Wells, June 23, 2025

Drench resistance in sheep: Don’t guess, test!

INTERNAL parasites cost Australian sheep and wool producers an average of $28,000 in lost productivity and a further $5000 in treatment costs every year, yet the majority are unaware of the resistance status of the worm population on their farm or the efficacy of their most recent drench. ..Read More

The Weekly Grill: Meat Business Women fills an important role

IN the latest Weekly Grill podcast episode, host Kerry Lonergan sits down with three women from Meat Business Women who are turning the tables in an historically male-dominated meat industry…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Wool

Fox & Lillie Rural launches new wool store at Goornong

FAMILY-OWNED wool exporter and broker Fox & Lillie Rural has officially opened its new wool store at Goornong, north-west of Bendigo…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Recruitment

Recruitment: Boom to balance – the shifting dynamics of agribusiness hiring

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Wool Trade

Brokers and exporters outline need to boost Australian wool traceability

Terry Sim, June 20, 2025

Nutrition & Animal Health

Hay market still hot after rain in South Australia and Victoria

Liz Wells, June 19, 2025

Property

How the proposed super tax will impact rural landholders

Property editor Linda Rowley, June 19, 2025

Wool Market Reports

Better demand and low bale supply lifts auction wool market

Sheep Central, June 20, 2025

Wool Market Reports

Limited forward wool trading with flat outlook predicted

Mike Avery, Southern Aurora Partners, June 20, 2025

Industry Dashboard

Carbon Trading Market

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

Today

35.6

Source: Jarden

$A / $US

Updated 7am daily

Today

0.6459

Source: NAB

ASX Market Index

24 Jun 2025 (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

3.62

Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

ESTLI

Eastern States Trade Lamb Indicator. Ac/kg cwt

Last Week

1031.2

Source: MLA's NLRS

EMI

Eastern Market Indicator. c/kg clean

Today

1207

Source: Australian Wool Exchange

Goat

Eastern States 12.1-16kg c/kg cwt

Today

Source: MLA

ASX Market Index

24 Jun 2025 (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

National farmer campaign against the federal super tax calls for support

This policy creates no incentive to work hard and to grow your super for retirement. I may as well stop doing what I’m doing and leach off the government....

Blake Ross

WoolClip uptake at 20pc as eBale wool pack use increases

Your headline of 20pc uptake in WoolClip I suspect is far from reality. Just because wool growers are buying and using packs with a bar code doesn’t mean they....

Matthew Crawford

South Australian farmers oppose dingo status changes in draft bill

We have a dingo fence for a reason. Dingoes are intelligent ruthless creatures that will happily harass and injure 50 sheep in one night. If you’ve ever seen sheep....

Brian Richardson

Brokers and exporters outline need to boost Australian wool traceability

This is an interesting article on a number of fronts. In 2019 we visited a weaving mill in Italy and on the day happen to have lunch with a couple....

Bill Bruce

Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 23 June 2025

WEEKLY rainfall totals of 10-50 mm were recorded across western and southern Western Australia, much of Tasmania and areas of southern and eastern Victoria…Read More

Bureau of Meteorology, June 24, 2025

National farmer campaign against the federal super tax calls for support

FARMERS nationally are being asked to join a campaign to stop the Federal Government’s proposed super tax as concerns are raised about its likely impact on farm succession…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Fox & Lillie Rural launches new wool store at Goornong

FAMILY-OWNED wool exporter and broker Fox & Lillie Rural has officially opened its new wool store at Goornong, north-west of Bendigo…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Recruitment: Boom to balance – the shifting dynamics of agribusiness hiring

AUSTRALIA’S agribusiness hiring landscape is no longer marked by COVID-inspired panic or market uncertainty paralysis, but a more measured approach, where strategy and foresight are back in focus…Read More

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Markets

Better demand and low bale supply lifts auction wool market

AUSTRALIAN wool prices lifted on market conditions of low supply and better demand rather than currency at auctions this week…Read More

Sheep Central, June 20, 2025

Limited forward wool trading with flat outlook predicted

LIMITED forward wool trading this week again followed the Australian auction market…Read More

Mike Avery, Southern Aurora Partners, June 20, 2025

High lamb prices continue but ease on quality in some markets

STRONG slaughter lamb and mutton prices continued across Australia this week, resulting in saleyard records at some centres, although there were signs of prices easing at some markets…Read More

Sheep Central, June 18, 2025

Bendigo lambs reach $426 as heavy and trade lamb prices lift

HEAVY and trade lamb prices continued at last week’s high levels at the Bendigo Livestock Exchange today, with export lambs making a centre record of $426 and five pens selling for more than $400…Read More

Sheep Central, June 16, 2025

Liz Wells, June 23, 2025

Hay market still hot after rain in South Australia and Victoria

RECENT rain in the drought-affected regions of south eastern Australia has seen up-country barley prices drop a few dollars, but the fodder market is showing no sign of easing…Read More

Liz Wells, June 19, 2025

Cutting-edge sheep tech to feature at GroWQ Innovation Expo

THE annual GroWQ Innovation Expo is returning to Longreach in July and for the first time participants will showcase some of the cutting-edge technology being used to support sheep and beef enterprises…Read More

Sheep Central, June 19, 2025

Wool Production

Feedgrain Focus: Wheat kicks on offshore rally

A RALLY in offshore wheat prices has kicked local values higher and sparked a surge in traded volumes as cautious optimism about south-eastern Australia’s season builds…Read More

Liz Wells, June 23, 2025

Hay market still hot after rain in South Australia and Victoria

RECENT rain in the drought-affected regions of south eastern Australia has seen up-country barley prices drop a few dollars, but the fodder market is showing no sign of easing…Read More

Liz Wells, June 19, 2025

Cutting-edge sheep tech to feature at GroWQ Innovation Expo

Sheep Central, June 19, 2025

A course to meet the challenges of farming in the 21st century

MEETING the challenges of farming in the 21st century will be the theme of a whole farm planning course to be run by Agriculture Victoria…Read More

Sheep Central, June 18, 2025

Processing

WoolClip uptake at 20pc as eBale wool pack use increases

Terry Sim, June 23, 2025

$12 million loan to boost WAMMCO Katanning processing

A $12 MILLION loan to Western Australia’s farmer-owned sheep meat processor WAMMCO will support timely processing of livestock at its Katanning plant, according to chief executive officer Coll MacRury…Read More

Sheep Central, May 16, 2025

TFI Stawell boosts lamb production and eating quality grading

THOMAS Food International’s Stawell plant is now fully equipped to market Australian lamb with improved eating quality…Read More

Sheep Central, May 14, 2025

JBS formalises plans for dual listing in the US and Brazil

GLOBAL protein giant JBS is formalising its long-touted move to dual listing on the New York and Brazilian Stock Exchanges after outlining the process last week, following a board decision on Tuesday to proceed…Read More

Sheep Central, April 28, 2025

Trade

The Weekly Grill: Meat Business Women fills an important role

Sheep Central, June 23, 2025

Brokers and exporters outline need to boost Australian wool traceability

AUSTRALIA’S wool traceability capability needs to be fast-tracked to boost the industry’s credibility among buyers, according to broking leaders who attended the recent International Wool Textile Organisation’s Congress in France…Read More

Terry Sim, June 20, 2025

IWTO approval to require PICs with wool test certificates

AUSTRALIAN wool sector biosecurity is set to be boosted after the industry gained permission to mandate the growers provide their Property Identification Codes with all clip test certificates…Read More

Terry Sim, June 18, 2025

Keep the Sheep ‘mothballed’, but its raison d’être lives on

KEEP the Sheep’s parent body has called time on its campaign to reverse the phaseout of live sheep exports by sea, but is considering options to best utilize the huge database and regional community skillset it has created…Read More

Terry Sim, June 6, 2025

Property

How the proposed super tax will impact rural landholders

IN part two of our series, three specialists look at how the govt’s plan to tax unrealised gains in superannuation will impact rural landholders…Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, June 19, 2025

Weekly property review: How will the super tax impact property?

IN this first part of a two-part series, industry experts advise landholders on what course of action to take in the light of Federal Government’s moves to tax unrealised gains in superannuation. If approved, the new Bill will impose an additional 15pc tax on the earnings of superannuation balances above $3m. ..Read More

Property editor Linda Rowley, June 13, 2025