WOOLPRODUCERS Australia is leading a push to find a company to help register and manufacture a footrot vaccine for the nation’s sheep producers…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
WHEAT and barley prices fell in the south last week, while northern rates have firmed as quality and production prospects deteriorate for the southern Queensland crop…Read More
Liz Wells, September 14, 2026
WESTERN Australian sheep producers and processors have been awarded grants in the second round of $40 million Supply Chain Capacity Program as part of government funding from the live sheep export transition package…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
NEW Zealand’s sheep meat and wool production is expected to fall over the next 12 months, according to Beef + Lamb NZ’s New Season Outlook for 2026-2027…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
AUSTRALIA’S farmers are being urged to make hay while the sun shines with a warning of a potential fodder shortage if predictions of a strong El Niño come to fruition…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
FORMER National Farmers Federation deputy chief executive officer Lyall Howard remembers where he was on September 11, 2001 – in the United States trying to negotiate Australia’s way out of a lamb tariff dispute. He proposes that the countries could still work together to build lamb demand and production…Read More
By former NFF deputy CEO Lyall Howard., September 11, 2026
THE latest American lamb industry effort to limit imports from Australia and New Zealand has sparked industry discussion on whether marketing collaboration efforts should be renewed…Read More
Terry Sim, September 11, 2026
GOVERNMENT and state farming organisation scrutiny of Sheep Producers Australia’s Future Flock Strategy process is increasing after the release of two flawed taxpayer-funded reports last week…Read More
SOUTH Australian sheep producer Angus Smith will travel the world as a Nuffield Australia scholar to investigate how successful livestock businesses recover from drought and other natural disasters…Read More
Sheep Central, September 9, 2026
‘FROM Data to Dollars: Turning AI into Real Farm Value’ will be the theme of the Livestock 2026 conference in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, next month…Read More
Sheep Central, September 9, 2026
GROWER selling has picked up ahead of the start of harvest in areas south of Central Queensland, where headers are already rolling in this first week of spring…Read More
Liz Wells, September 7, 2026
POTENTIAL impacts of changed Federal Government visa processing priorities – higher food prices, delayed harvest and workforce shortages — have been highlighted by red meat processors, Victorian farmers and the Coalition…Read More
Sheep Central, September 4, 2026