THE European Union’s Ambassador to Australia Lawrence Meredith today pushed back on Coalition and farmer support for the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement to be renegotiated…Read More
Sheep Central, October 5, 2026
THE Albanese Labor Government has allocated another $11.8 million to Western Australian sheep farmers and livestock transport operators as part of the transition package for the phase out of live sheep exports by sea…Read More
Sheep Central, October 5, 2026
WHO are Australia’s active live exporting companies, and where do they operate? Impetus Animal Welfare chief executive officer Dr Michael Patching analyses Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to get a measure of which exporters are shipping to global markets…Read More
By Impetus Animal Welfare CEO Dr Michael Patching, October 5, 2026
AUSTRALIA’S sheep meat processing sector and producer leadership was today silent on the prospect of American and Australian lamb producers co-operating on a support package to avert import restrictions or higher tariffs…Read More
MORE Australian wool growers held back bales from sale this week as buyers collectively pulled auction market prices back…Read More
Sheep Central, October 2, 2026
FINE wool prices increased mostly in Sydney and Melbourne auctions this week, but the market generally recorded an overall loss…Read More
Sheep Central, September 25, 2026
FIRST cross ewes to $620, Merinos to $515, new season lambs to $398 and cast for age ewes averaging around $350 for mutton – Sheep Central livestock markets columnist Chris Howie charts what’s behind the latest price movements…Read More
Sheep Central livestock markets columnist Chris Howie, September 21, 2026
AGORA Livestock head of markets Dean Hubbard has put the case for supporting more competitive tension in the Western Australian sheep industry, especially forward contracts, and questions the value in government funding to increase processing capacity before incentivising supply…Read More
Agora Livestock head of markets Dean Hubbard, September 15, 2026
GLOBAL trade is facing further disruption with another major shipping route putting restrictions in place, this time due to drought, which could have a significant impact on Australia’s export of red meat to the east coast of the United States and Canada…Read More
Lydia Burton, September 15, 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
AUSTRALIA’S wool auction market drifted lower this week, prompting brokers to pass in 10 percent of growers’ bales initially catalogued for sale…Read More
Sheep Central, September 11, 2026