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2025-12-09
MLA unveils Top 10 red meat market trends for 2025

MLA unveils Top 10 red meat market trends for 2025

AUSTRALIA’S red meat industry is demonstrating resilience, productivity gains and strong global demand in 2025, with record production, high prices and export performance forecast across beef, sheepmeat and goat sectors, according to Meat & Livestock Australia’s latest Top 10 trends of 2025 report.
2024-12-02
Wagyu, Angus premiums softening as consumer spending tightens

Wagyu, Angus premiums softening as consumer spending tightens

THERE has been a further narrowing in feeder premiums for Wagyu, Wagyu cross and Angus cattle over the past month, Elders has noted in its latest December monthly livestock bulletin released yesterday. The trend is associated with a contraction in demand for higher-priced beef items owing to a slowing in the Chinese market, contraction in the food service sector, a shift in buying habits in Japan and cost of living pressures the world over, analyst Richard Koch said in the report.