Herald 20220823

TOOWOOMBA CATTLE & PIG MARKET
Harristown Saleyards, Monday, August 15, 2022
• Best cows reached $1992
• Trade weight butcher steers sold to $2140
• Droughtmaster steers A/c Lloyd & Patricia Muller,
Ravensbourne made 538c/kg returning up to $2368
• A line of Angus steers A/c Ted & Mary Scrivener
sold to 594c/kg to average $1710
DESCRIPTION
Steers
Cows
Heavy Heifers
Bulls
Feeder Steers
Restocker Steers
Restocker Heifers
Yarding: 138 Change: +4
Wet weather kept numbers down but
demand and prices increased across all
categories.
Weight
500-700kgs
520+kgs
>400kgs
>600kgs
400-500kgs
200-280kgs
200-280kgs
Range
c/kg
N/Q
242-310
N/Q
N/Q
460-538
458-470
288-362
Bobby Calves
Average
c/kg
277
475
460
312
Change
c/kg
Grass Eaters $580-$1300 Beef x Dairy $300-410 Dairy $85-$260
Prime Pork
Prime Bacon
Sows
N/Q
N/Q
$325
Weaners $132
Pigs
Prime Light Bacon
Boars
Forward Stores
Suckers
N/Q
$150
$158
N/Q
Livestock, 429 South St, Toowoomba 07 4690 7777
Darren Hartwig - All enquiries 0428 736 470
Mick O’Keefe - Cattle 0409 621 019
Mark Gersekowski - Pigs/Calf/Cattle 0427 761 099
John Padman - Dairy Specialist 0417 802 543
Rural Products, 397 South St, Tmba 07 4636 8888
HIGH COUNTRY
FARMING
MLA partners with Agcotech and University of Sydney to reduce methane
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AGCOTECH
AND THE UNIVERSITY
OF SYDNEY
Carbon neutrality is as much about
production as it is about reducing
methane output in cattle and sheep.
Both go hand in hand, where
new additional pasture technologies
increase profits, improving rumen
function and lowering greenhouse
gasses.
Meat and Livestock Australia and
Agcotech have formed a partnership
with the University of Sydney to
further develop pasture supplements
that deliver new mitigants that
directly suppress methane production,
while improving breeder
condition and weaning rates.
MLA are also continuing to
improve GHG accounting systems to
help red meat businesses demonstrate
a carbon neutral or low carbon status
at farmgate.
Managing Director at MLA,
Jason Strong said, “The partnership
between Agcotech and the
University of Sydney is one example
of an investment that aims to
bring profitable livestock methane
technologies to market through the
Emissions Avoidance Partnership.
“MLA is also leading the Environmental
Credentials for Australian
Grassfed beef project, in a
consortium with World Wildlife
Fund-Australia and the University of
Queensland. This project is funded
through the Federal Governments
Landcare Grant program ‘Smart
Farming Partnerships’.
“This investment will enable
grassfed beef producers to
demonstrate their environmental
credent-ials and reduce their
emissions to access market
opportunities and participate in
carbon neutral and low carbon
supply chains,” Mr Strong said.
Agcotech Chairman, Charles
Olsson believes the Australian Red
Meat industry is leading the world
in all classes of Environmental,
Social, and Governance policy, and
this newest collab between MLA,
The University of Sydney and
Agcotech, will potentially take the
red meat industry to a new level on
the international playing field.
“Australia has dominated the red
meat market with best practice on
farm welfare, and now looks forward
to repeating performance to achieve
CN 30. I fully support this huge goal,
and believe with the right motivation,
we can shift the red meat industry to
even higher levels of production and
control methane at the same time to
be the envy of the world,” Mr Olsson
said.
Agcotech already has two products
already released into the Australian
market, and one product released
into Asia. Various methodologies
exist for Australian farmers:
• A new energy supplement that
intends to meet ‘additionality’, under
the existing beef herd methodology
method. This method is classified to
reduce “’methane intensity’ aiming
at increasing liveweight gain during
dry seasons, allowing animals to be
turned off earlier: also aiming to
identify nonperforming breeding
cows allowing them to be shipped off
the property earlier, all adding up to
a reduced carbon footprint and more
productive herd.
• A direct abatement pasture
product that achieves a modest
carbon dioxide reduction in methane
produced by cattle, mainly for
southern regions in Australia (NSW
and below), while also improving
pasture digestibility. This method
will allow graziers to participate in a
Voluntary Carbon Market, offsetting
emissions against their footprint to
begin a pathway to Carbon neutrality.
It is hoped over the next 4 years,
this joint investment in new or
existing combinations of methane
mitigants combined with patented
feedblock technology, will allow
higher levels of direct methane
More rain predicted through to October
Favourable growing conditions for the winter season
have been predicted for most of Queensland. Those at
the recent ABARES Toowoomba conference were provided
with more details of the possibility of rainfall for
the August to October period.
A Bureau of Meteorology prediction shows much of
Queensland had more than an 80 per cent chance
of exceeding median rainfall. This included much of
Southern Queensland. The smaller areas were given at
least a 70 per cent chance of exceeding median rainfall.
BOM rainfall 3 month outlook. August to October 2022
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t Australian Government
, • Department of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Forestry
ABARES
SALE REPORT
Saturday, August 20
Rocky Dip Yards CROWS NEST
Quality cattle sold to good rates at Zeller
& Co sale on Saturday.
Evon Genrich, Crows Nest, sole a pen of
Murray Grey steers for $1800.
Donna Gray, Pechey, sold pens of steers
for $1580 and $1590.
Next Sale:
Sat, September 3
10am
Rocky Dip Yards Crows Nest
For more info, Ph Rick 0428 879 531
Don’t forget we sell at Dalby every Wednesday
with Fitzgerald Livestock
For updates, watch for our email
Thursday night.
If not on our email list, let us know.
If you have cattle, book early for advertising
WANTED TO LEASE
Country to run 100+ steers
BUYING ALL TYPES OF CATTLE
Mobile: 0428 879 531
Fax: 4698 2580
E: rick@zlp.net.au
Your local agent
mitigation (target 50per cent), whilst
improving pro duction on pastures.”
CN30 is a target for the red
meat industry to achieve net zero
greenhouse gas emissions while at
the same time doubling the value
Darw i i 1 #
Source: Bureau of Meteorology
Issued: 21 July 2022
The Australian livestock in-dustry has invested
in additional on-the-ground measures to further
support the Indonesian biosecurity response to foot
and mouth disease and lumpy skin disease.
Meat and Livestock Australia will provide
$1.3 million to fund an Indonesian FMD vaccine
support project for importers to purchase up to
600,000 vaccine doses for Australian cattle entering
Indonesian feedlots.
The vaccines will be admin-istered by importers
and funding provided on a cost recovery basis by
MLA.
Australian Live Exporters’ Council CEO, Mark
Harvey-Sutton, said this was another way that
the industry was helping provide security for
Indonesian importers.
of red meat sales as the trusted source of the
highest quality protein. For more information on
CN30, check out MLA’s Sustainability Hub and
the Sustainability Special Edition of Feedback
magazine. For more information on Agcotech,
visit Agcotech.
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Australia supports Indonesia biosecurity
reporting on Toowoomba Cattle Sale
Booking Agent
for Toowoomba,
Dalby & Warwick
Cattle Sales
David O’Sullivan
0412 501 116
Paul O’Sullivan
0400 910 088
osullivanauctions@bigpond.com.au
“Providing assistance for vaccinations is a
practical measure that will help give importers
confidence and slow the spread of FMD,” Mr
Harvey-Sutton said.
“It will help allow Indonesian importers to
continue operating with fewer hurdles and build
on our years of partnership with Indonesian
industry.”
MLA Managing Director, Jason Strong, said
MLA would also be providing local expertise
and support via the Livestock Export Program
in-market team, who will provide updated
information and act as the link between industry
and government.
“This will help with consistent messaging
regarding policy and operational matters,
distribution of training materials and key
information to industry, and coordination of
Australia/Indonesia industry meetings and
updates,” Mr Strong said.
These measures are in addition to MLA’s
partnership with the Australian Government
to deliver a practical and comprehensive
biosecurity support program to Indonesia. As
part of the program, $2 million will be invested
over 18 months, providing technical and training
support to:
• Instil long term biosecurity capacity to
manage exotic diseases • Minimise disruption
to the live cattle trade • Build the Indonesian
Government’s confidence in their feedlot sector
to manage diseases to continue trade and food
security • Assist Indonesian smallholders to
manage and minimise disease spread.
Mr Strong said the program of investment
and activities would reduce the risk of FMD
incursion into Australia and protect the important
trading relationship with Indonesia.
“The Australian livestock industry is
committed to supporting Indonesia with its
disease suppression efforts,” Mr Strong said.
“Australia remains free of FMD. It is important
that government, industry, the supply chain and
the general public continue to work together to
keep it that way.
“We have successfully done this for over 100
years and industry and government are taking
practical steps to ensure that continues.”