Sentences with phrase «cattle exports»
"Cattle exports" refers to the business of selling and shipping live cattle to other countries. Full definition
He says the controversy surrounding potential restrictions on live cattle exports can become less relevant if prices remain high, but may further encourage exports from other markets.
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Live cattle exports would remain at this level in 2013 - 14 and be worth $ 330 million, compared with $ 4.7 billion worth of beef exports.
ESCAS was introduced into Australia's live animal export markets following the controversial 2011 Indonesian live cattle export ban by the former Labor government.
Mr Suswono imposed strict beef import quotas in the wake of Australia's short - lived ban on live cattle exports in 2011, on the pretext that Indonesia wanted to become self - sufficient in beef.
Beef farms make up about one - quarter of all farms in Canada, second only to field crops, while the dollar value of live cattle exports ranks just behind spring wheat, canola and durum exports.
«With the right bulk handling facilities there is certainly the potential to boost live cattle exports from northern Australia.
Mitsui is bullish about expanding the live cattle export into Asia, as well as diversifying the product available:
In July last year Mr Joyce talked up the live cattle export deal, anticipating Australia could export about a million head of cattle to generate between $ 1 billion and $ 2 billion.
The suspension of live cattle exports has so damaged Australia's trading relationship with Indonesia that it would take a change of government to restore it, Elders boss Malcolm Jackman says.
Total meat production is forecast to fall slightly in 2000/01 as cattle herd rebuilding continues, though live cattle exports are expected to increase, reflecting a further improvement in Asian demand.
Mr Chang is also encouraged by the recent China - Australia Free Trade Agreement and a bilateral agreement on Australian live cattle exports that has given pastoralists unprecedented acess to the vast Chinese market.
While things are looking up at Elders after a profit turnaround and some buoyant live cattle exports, shareholders shouldn't throw their Akubra hats in the air just yet.
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences said live cattle exports would fall 22 per cent to 450,000 head this year, after Indonesia slashed its intake.
Northern Australia's beef herd comprises 12.5 million cattle and makes up 90 per cent of Australia's live cattle exports.
ESCAS was introduced following the snap suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia in 2011 by the former Labor government, to allow tracking and traceability of exported Australian animals, despite transfer of ownership and animal protection laws that may exist in other countries.
The dry weather has compounded the misery for the nation's beef producers following the Gillard government's temporary ban of live cattle exports to Indonesia in 2011.
Ben Thomas, the manager of market information at Meat and Live Stock Australia, said the proportion of cattle exported live could grow to around 20 per cent over the next decade if China reaches its goal of securing 1 million head a year.
More than a decade after live cattle exports to China were first considered the inaugural shipment has left Australia despite high beef prices making the trade marginal.
The threat to Australia's market share «is very real and we'd be foolish to think otherwise», Tracey Hayes, chief executive of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association, said from Darwin, where the bulk of Australia's live cattle exports are shipped to Indonesia.
More than a decade after live cattle exports to China were first considered.
Australia relies on Indonesia to buy more than half its live cattle exports — earning $ 549 million from the live trade last year.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is confident a decision to suspend live cattle exports to Indonesia does not breach any world trade rules.
On Tuesday 31st May 2011 Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig announced the suspension of live cattle exports to the 11 Indonesian abattoirs investigated by ABC's Four Corners.
Moreover the argument is ridiculous that banning live cattle exports to Indonesia will somehow destroy the beef industry, because the direct and indirect value of the red meat industry in Australia is something in the order of $ 17 billion dollars and employs some 55,000 workers.
Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University describes one African nation whose major economy consists only of diamond and cattle exports.