Dec 18, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Timely rains for weaner vendors
By Angus Brown | Source: MLA. While wiener vendors at a sausage festival are unlikely to enjoy the heavy rain we saw at the end of last week, weaner vendors in Western Victoria would have rejoiced at the blue, yellow and even purple…
Dec 18, 2018
Santa overwhelmed with orders for rain… By Peter McMeekin
The southern hemisphere’s second biggest wheat producer is Argentina. Heavy rain across a large portion of the country’s northern wheat production region in the past week bought harvest to a halt and started to raise quality concerns…
Dec 17, 2018
"Skin in the game" - By Nathan Scott
There is still some serious tension in our industry at the moment, with controversies erupting into arguments on social media. I have recently watched as one tweeter’s comment on the live export of sheep erupted in name calling and…
Dec 17, 2018
Inland rail project begins - Growth for Regional areas
The first sod for the Inland Rail project was historically turned at Parkes terminal on 13 December, 2018.The NSW Government has welcomed the start of work on the 1,700 kilometre Inland Rail project, with first trains expected to…
Dec 17, 2018
Canadian Port play for GrainCorp
GrainsConnect Canada, GrainCorp’s joint venture with Zen-Noh Grain Corporation, has agreed to be a partner in the Fraser Grain Terminal, at the Port of Vancouver. Construction of Fraser Grain Terminal was announced by respected Canadian…
Dec 17, 2018
Heavy rain keeps numbers away at Bendigo Sheep and Lambs
Yarding - 17,000 (-11,422). Lambs - 10,000 (-6,422). Sheep - 7,000 (-5,000). Lamb and sheep numbers fell away after some heavy rain across the region, making it the smallest yarding for some time. Quality also declined, with the bulk…
Dec 17, 2018
Campaign to save Longreach and Emerald Ag Colleges looking positive
The agriculture industry’s campaign to save the Longreach and Emerald ag colleges is gathering momentum, with Agriculture Minister Furner today committing to consider an industry-led solution in the new year.AgForce has been driving…
Dec 16, 2018
Tractor Sale down 15% for November but only 2% for the year
Sales of Agricultural tractors have turned further downwards in November as the impact of the drought continues to take its toll.All up, Tractor sales in November were 15% down for the month leaving the year to date position around…
Dec 16, 2018
Ag workforce being boosted by young people and women
Australia’s agricultural workforce is growing and getting younger, according to the latest Insights snapshot released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Sciences (ABARES).ABARES Executive Director Dr Steve…
Dec 16, 2018
Wool Market EMI finishes 102c/kg above this time last year
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolThe final wool market for 2018 prior to the Christmas recess attracted one of the largest wool offerings seen for months (46,000 bales), resulting in a three-day sale this week.The Australian dollar weakened…
Dec 16, 2018
Talking up Regenerative Agriculture
By Chuck de Liedekerke - Regenerative Agriculture!Since Soil Capital’s inception in 2013, we have held management responsibilities on over thirty large scale farms. We have learned, sometimes the hard way, what creates value and what…
Dec 16, 2018
Commitment needed to ensure that the sustainability of the NSW dairy industry is assured
Dairy Connect CEO Shaughn Morgan said that the advocacy body welcomed the 4 findings and 10 recommendations released this week from the NSW Upper House Inquiry into the sustainability of the State’s dairy industry.The Government and…
Dec 16, 2018
CBH Harvest Report - Emergency storage getting utilised
After two weeks of peak receivals, daily tonnages started to reduce across the state towards the end of this week as some grower’s harvest programs come to an end.“We have been seeing good tonnages in all zones during the last two…
Dec 16, 2018
Ag Tech Sunday - CropLogic targets the rich Mildura area
By Megan GrahamCropLogic (ASX:CLI) has smashed a major milestone today, making its first sale from the Sunraysia region for its ag-tech hardware and software solution, CropLogic realTime.By way of background, CLI is an award-winning…
Dec 14, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Why does it always rain on me?
By Andrew Whitelaw | Source: CME. The sound of rain can be heard on roofs throughout the east coast. This will be welcome to some and a hindrance to others. In this update we take a look at futures for next year, and the last two…
Dec 14, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Weekly Wool Forwards for week ending 14th December 2018
By Olivia Agar | Source: Riemann, Mecardo. The last week of physical wool auctions before the Christmas recess saw steady activity on the forwards market with just five trades.19 micron wool traded at 2,110¢ and 2,155¢ for May 2019.…
Dec 14, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Strong finish to a momentous year
By Robert Herrmann | Source: AWEX, Mecardo. Exporters would be pleased with the final selling week; a solid finish before the break provides opportunity to write new orders for the re-start in 2019. The market rose on each of the…
Dec 14, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - How lamb price perspectives can change in a year
By Angus Brown | Source: MLA. Perspective is a funny thing, especially when it comes to commodity prices. This time last year the Eastern States Trade Lamb Indicator (ESTLI) hit a new record high of 661¢/kg cwt and lamb producers…
Dec 14, 2018
Mecardo Analysis - Owen brings an early Xmas gift
By Matt Dalgleish | Source: MLA, BOM, Mecardo. Rainfall to vast areas of the Eastern seaboard at the latter end of the week, compliments of ex-tropical cyclone Owen, has seen up to 50-100 mm recorded across Queensland, NSW and Victoria.…
Dec 13, 2018
Decision on the 450GL of an additional MDB Water to be made today
The Murray Darling Basin Water Ministers are meeting this Friday 14 December 2018 to consider the recovery of the additional 450 gigalitres of ‘Up-water’. Specifically, they will address how the socio-economic neutrality test will…
