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J. Armitage NLRS Market Ops – Tamworth, Gunnedah & Armidale

Project start date: 01 July 2016
Project end date: 30 June 2017
Publication date: 30 June 2017
Project status: Completed
Livestock species: Sheep, Goat, Lamb, Grassfed cattle, Grainfed cattle

Summary

​Through its network of livestock market officers across Australia, the National Livestock Reporting Service independently collects market data from the key saleyards, in addition to slaughter statistics, wholesale, skin and slaughter figures. This service is funded via producer levies as well as Australian Government matching funding, with the funding covering data collection and reporting as well as the development and operation of NLRS related IT systems. For more information, please see theNLRS website.

The 16 LMO contractors below are essential to the delivery of the National Livestock Reporting Service's committments. The reports that they file to MLA can be found https://www.mla.com.au/prices-markets/market-reports-prices/pdf-market-reports/. This market data underpins alot of Market Information analysis.