THE Goat Industry Council of Australia has opened bookings for a series of face-to-face meetings to consult on a proposal to increase the goat livestock transaction levy and equivalent goat owner export levy…Read More
Sheep Central, June 22, 2026
A COMBINATION of emu apple and oats has proven the winner in an Australian-first comparison trial into greenhouse gas-restricting feed for goats…Read More
By Sue Webster, June 15, 2026
AUSTRALIA’S goat producers are being asked to fund a greater emphasis on marketing and market access in a proposal to more than double the transaction levy from 37.7 cents to 90 cents per head…Read More
Terry Sim, May 29, 2026
BOER goats delivered the greatest meat yield in a three-way breed comparison led by Queensland scientists…Read More
By Sue Webster, May 28, 2026
AUSTRALIA is continuing to export more goat meat than any other country in the world, and Australians are eating more of the rising domestic production. In its most recent Goatmeat..Read More
Sheep Central, May 27, 2026
MATURE meat goat does have raised kids from three joinings in two years using out-of-season mating as part of a research program to develop genomic breeding values…Read More
Sheep Central, March 13, 2026
MEAT & Livestock Australia managing director Mick Crowley told last Thursday’s MLA annual general meeting that a greater emphasis on the ‘adoption part’ of the industry company’s research, development and..Read More
Sheep Central, November 27, 2025
SEVERAL Australian sheep and goat meat processors have been given new and/or expanded access to China under approvals by the country’s General Administration of Customs…Read More
Sheep Central, April 28, 2025A GENETICS project aiming to have one of the largest research reference population for goat meat production in the world has been given a $3.7 million boost…Read More
Sheep Central, December 11, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S goat meat exports reached their highest recorded monthly level in October, Meat and Livestock Australia has reported…Read More
AUSTRALIA’S goat meat exports have hit their highest annual levels – with three months of the year yet to run…Read More
Sheep Central, October 11, 2024
VICTORIAN sheep producer Peter Small recounts a recent trip to Inner Mongolia with fellow wool grower John Cordingley to look at the cashmere industry, noting the challenges and what led some processors to pursue the luxury goat fibre rather than superfine Australian wool…Read More
Peter Small , August 23, 2024