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2025-11-18

Australian beef gets US tariff relief, but none for lamb

TARIFFS remain on Australian sheep meat imports into the United States, despite US president Donald Trump flagging removal of duties on most beef imports on Saturday.

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2025-11-18

Elders annual year profit up 34pc on strong livestock prices

ELDERS has recorded a rise in underlying profits after tax of 34 percent to $86 million for the financial year ending September 30, driven by strong livestock prices and growth in the real estate division.

Beef

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2025-11-03

Northern rain interrupts harvest, buoys summer crops

RECENT days have brought wild weather to pockets of eastern Australia’s summer-cropping region, where the winter-crop harvest is in full swing.

Grain

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2025-10-31

Rising meat prices still front of mind, as Woolies and Coles deliver stronger first quarter results

BOTH Coles and Woolworths first quarter financial results released this week remark on the price inflationary trend in fresh meat. In its results announced yesterday Coles delivered the better of the two major retailer rivals’ sales growth results for the quarter ended 30, reporting supermarket revenue of $9.96 billion, up 4.8pc year on year.

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2025-09-03

Booming export volumes continue, with August topping 135,000t

AUSTRALIA’S beef exports in 2025 remain in track to smash all-time records, with August shipments continuing the recent boom. Monthly shipment data released by DAFF this morning shows chilled and frozen exports to all destinations last month topped 135,570 tonnes – the second highest monthly volume on record, exceeded only by the previous month of July when numbers topped 150,000t.

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2025-07-16

Records fall like ten-pins, as June and fiscal year beef exports hit all-time records

AUSTRALIAN beef export records have fallen like ten-pins, as the industry enters the new financial year. Official data released by DAFF shows: June monthly shipments at an all-time high, reaching 134,593t Financial year (July to June) shipment volumes at a new record level, and Grainfed exports surging past the previous record set in April, and for the fiscal year.

Beef

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2025-07-16

Exports to UK and EU showing growth – but off a low base

MORE than two years after Australia signed its Free Trade Agreement with the United Kingdom, beef trade volumes are slowly starting to grow into both the UK and to some extent, nearby European Union nations.

Beef

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2025-03-25