Fools in charge

The cost of living spiral is going to end badly for a lot of lower paid workers. Of course, the Public Service class and many others are immune from the real pain.

Price reviews reflecting higher wholesale gas prices led to rises in gas and other household fuels, with rises seen across all eight capital cities and the strongest rise recorded in Melbourne (+22.7 per cent). "This quarter's rise was notable as prices increased in all eight capital cities, whereas typically only Melbourne's prices are reviewed in the March quarter," said Ms Marquardt. Higher prices reflected major events over the past year including the ongoing war in Ukraine and unplanned outages at coal fired power stations.

https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/cpi-rose-14-cent-march-2023-quarter

it is high time to stop blaming skirmishes in Eastern Europe for matters that were generated by bad governments around the globe.

Profit and return on investment missing

There should be one central factor in being a beef producer. Maximise productivity and make a return on investment while meeting all regulations.

sick of hearing about sustainability

Farmers and producers need to be profitable and receive a reward for their stewardship of the land and a return on investment.

all this talk of obligations for the community should be balanced with profitable production and a return on assets and for hard work

"Red meat’s sustainability in the spotlight"

"The sustainability success story of Australia’s red meat industry is taking centre stage ahead of Earth Day 2023. Tune into this webinar recording to find out more from our two expert speakers."

MLA needs to be on producers side and if they do not pick a side they should get out of the industry and leave it to producers.

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Population headache

Australian population and inward migration is far too high.

We are seeing infrastructure under pressure and quality of life deteriorating. Bad planning and the poor are getting poorer with rampant inflation and living costs.

https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/capital-cities-approach-pre-pandemic-population-growth

It aint good

Regional mobile infrastructure inquiry 2022-23

ACCC publishes preliminary findings paper for the Regional Mobile Infrastructure Inquiry

The ACCC has today published a preliminary findings paper following stakeholder engagement for the Regional Mobile Infrastructure Inquiry.

The ACCC is now seeking feedback from interested stakeholders on these preliminary findings, before the more comprehensive final report is prepared for the Minister.

The due date for submissions is Tuesday, 16 May 2023.

https://www.accc.gov.au/inquiries-and-consultations/regional-mobile-infrastructure-inquiry-2022-23/report-on-preliminary-findings

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Wingham Beef Producer day

Great work by a good processor

Australia, free trade agreements

Note to news outlets. Before discussing recent events it is useful to put some perspective on Australia's success in Free trade agreements. The role of coalition governments is to be applauded and recent flying visits by the current administration are quite insignificant. https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/trade-agreements

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Northern wet season to date rainfall totals for Australia

A very wet season

Notable flooding across the continent and intense moisture and precipitation. It is still raining in many parts and parts of the South East coast is sodden. If the weather remains stable and normal conditions arrive, it should be another bumper winter crop.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps/rainfall/?variable=rainfall&map=totals&period=cnws®ion=nat&year=2023&month=04&day=05

Beef consumption in Brazil drops to lowest level in 18 years, says Itaú

Beef consumption in Brazil fell once again in 2022, for the 4th consecutive year. In the period, consumption of animal protein reached 24.2 kg per inhabitant, the lowest level since 2004

The data are from the Agro Consultancy of Itaú BBA. Consumer beef prices started to rise in 2020, which made many Brazilians take protein off their plate. The increase in poverty and the drop in income during the pandemic also impacted the reduction in consumption. The value of meat, in general, rose 18% in 2020, but slowed down in 2021 (+7%) and 2022 (+1.84%), according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Until February of this year, the price of protein accumulates a drop of 1.68%. Despite the lower consumption, the production of refrigerators grew again last year. In total, 29.8 million head were slaughtered in Brazil, an increase of 7.5% compared to 2021. It was the first increase in production since 2019. The increase was driven by the return of female slaughter.

https://www.abrafrigo.com.br/index.php/2023/04/03/clipping-da-abrafrigo-no-1951-de-03-de-abril-de-2023/

CSIRO research. Net protein contribution

This study makes a number of key points. CSIRO livestock systems scientist Dr Dean Thomas said Australian beef production is efficient at converting both low quality protein in grains that humans can eat, as well as protein in grass that humans can’t eat, into high quality protein for human nutrition.

“Cattle are efficient upcyclers of grass and other feedstuffs not just in terms of the quality of protein they create. They contribute a greater amount of protein to our food system than is used in their production as well,” Dr Thomas said.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/News-releases/2021/CSIRO-sets-beef-benchmark-for-protein-production

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731121002354?via%3Dihub

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