Lamb Production

WoolProducers Australia seeks a footrot vaccine collaborator

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

Feedgrain Focus: South feels weight of new crop

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

WA sheep producers and processors access transition grants

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 sheep and wool production expected to fall

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

Farmers urged to make hay ahead of the predicted strong El Niño

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

Opinion: Reflecting on US lamb tariffs, 9/11 and the future

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

Is it too late to collaborate with the US producers on lamb promotion?

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

Sheep Producers Australia ducks as Future Flock reports ire grows

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

Terry Sim, September 9, 2026

SA sheep producer steps up to investigate drought strategies

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

Livestock 2026 to focus on turning AI into real farm value

‘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

Feedgrain Focus: Grower selling picks up as heat rises

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

Ag concerns grow over worker visa priority changes

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

More Lamb Production News

    Get Sheep Central's news headlines emailed to you -
    FREE!