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19 January 2024
The cattle market lifted overall this week. Yardings rose by 31,585 to 57,966 head, a 23% increase compared to the same time last year. This growth was underpinned by NSW and Queensland with combined yardings of 35,644 head.

18 January 2024
The Australian sheep flock is the largest since 2007, currently sitting at 78.75 million head due to historically large numbers of breeding ewes and high marking rates.

12 January 2024
The cattle market generally lifted this week with strong processor demand for weaner cattle. Yardings increased by 7,027 to 24,547 head which is expected for the beginning of the year.

12 January 2024
The weekly National Livestock Reporting Service (NLRS) slaughter report remained an important resource in 2023, producing weekly reports on slaughter figures gathered voluntarily from processors across the country.

15 December 2023
After a big year, the National Livestock Reporting Service (NLRS) will shut down for the Christmas period, returning in the first week of the new year.

08 December 2023
The cattle market generally lifted this week, as producer confidence improved ahead of the looming Christmas holiday season. Cattle yardings increased 31,926 to 86,857 head, the largest weekly yarding since November 2019.

05 December 2023
Doug and Sue Campbell run a 5,000 hectare cattle property at Gaeta, near Gin Gin, Queensland. The property has been in the family for three generations, since 1923. Connection to the land and to the local community has been important to the Campbell family since those early days. There are regular BBQ catch-ups and an annual 22km cattle walk that people in the area get involved in.

23 November 2023
Australia is the largest exporter of goatmeat in the world, and in the July–September quarter of 2023 goat slaughter, production and exports all lifted markedly from already high levels compared to the past several years.

22 November 2023
Managing livestock in the variable environment of the NSW rangelands presents unique challenges for producers. One of the greatest hurdles is making strategic decisions about how and when to destock, especially in the lead-up to dry periods.

17 November 2023
On Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the official slaughter and production statistics for the third quarter of 2023, which is useful to help understand the industry’s operating environment.