A QUARTER of workers in Victoria’s larger meat processors will have to be tested for COVID-19 every week, in an initiative announced by the State Government today…Read More
Terry Sim, September 30, 2020
GOVERNMENT-LED environmental and carbon reforms are underpinning the biggest surveyed drop in New Zealand farmer confidence in three years…Read More
Sheep Central, September 30, 2020
COMPETITION for livestock, especially lambs and sheep, is expected to increase at eastern state saleyards with the easing of workforce capacity restrictions on Victorian red meat processors…Read More
Terry Sim, September 28, 2020
VICTORIAN Premier Daniel today said he couldn’t confirm any announcements would be made this Sunday on the easing of COVID-19 workforce restrictions on meat processors…Read More
Terry Sim, September 24, 2020
SHEEP meat is the first target of South American processing giant Athena Foods’ investment in Australian red meat processing as part of an expansion move driven by a planned public listing on the New York Stock Exchange. ..Read More
Jon Condon, September 23, 2020
VICTORIA’S regional meat processors could have their workforce restrictions eased as early as next week if the regional COVID-19 rolling case average remains below critical trigger levels…Read More
Terry Sim, September 11, 2020
SOUTHERN Queensland’s Churchill abattoir near Ipswich is looking likely to be resurrected as a dual-species lamb/beef plant, after being mothballed since 2017. Greater access to sheep and lambs since the adoption of exclusion fencing in western parts of the state is one of the catalysts behind the project…Read More
Jon Condon, September 11, 2020
CONTINUING COVID-19 workforce restrictions on Victorian meat processors could potentially create a backlog of lambs that would enter the market and extend downward pressure on prices, a Rural Bank analysis has found…Read More
Sheep Central, September 11, 2020
VICTORIA’S Minister for Agriculture Jaclyn Symes has offered no insight into how the state’s red meat processors might progress to lower COVID-19 workforce restrictions as the spring lamb turn-off begins…Read More
Terry Sim, September 8, 2020
VICTORIAN Premier Daniel Andrews has said the state’s red meat processors will stay under current COVID-19 workforce restrictions for “the foreseeable future” despite conceding they are operating “probably at their lowest risk rating ever”…Read More
VICTORIAN red meat processors in communities with no COVID-19 cases should not have their workforce levels restricted, according to Nationals leader Peter Walsh…Read More
Sheep Central, September 7, 2020
VICTORIA’S peak livestock farmer body and red meat processors are seeking equivalence with the chicken industry in any revision of COVID-19 workforce restrictions…Read More
Terry Sim, September 4, 2020