It’s a warm summer’s day – you’re standing at a sheep market in a Middle Eastern country as tens of thousands of people descend upon the city in preparation for the upcoming celebration of EID. The atmosphere is palpable – excitement, joy, and stress – picture your local shopping centre on Christmas eve. Your job? […]
The people involved in live exports are as varied as the industry itself. This magazine has been developed to tell some of their stories. It comes after a survey of the Australian community about its views on live exports highlighted the need to do better at explaining how the industry works. These are the human […]
Leading exporters provided first-hand insights into the industry’s daily balancing act between commercial pressures and community expectations, during LiveCorp’s seminar at Beef Australia in May 2021 (panel members are listed below). There is no ‘typical’ voyage in such a diverse industry, but the logistics involved are the same. The biggest cost to exporters is the […]
Being a shipboard stockie is a great way to use your livestock handling skills and broaden your career options – and there’s an online course starting soon! It’s run by LiveCorp, which manages the accreditation program for live export stock handlers. They’re responsible for caring for cattle during the voyage, with help from the ship’s […]
Written by Barbara Camp – Kalyeeda Station It occurs to me in the years I’ve been writing for this site, I’ve shared a lot about my weird and wonderful life in the bush – my love for animals and horses, and my experiences living in remote Australia after finding love out bush when I went […]
Written by Camille Camp – Kalyeeda Station. I recently went on a nine-day voyage on a live export vessel. A cruise you might say, a cattle cruise, however the journey was anything but cruisey! The prospect of working as an onboard stocky has always appealed to me. As pastoralists, we produce cattle that journey to […]
Host: Latrobe Station Written by Jody Brown While writing my previous blog entry, One for the Women, I came to the realisation that what began as a brief shout out to an irrepressible woman and her extraordinary escapades, would actually require a little more elbow room than one paragraph allowed. The following words hardly do […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – co-Manager, Dampier Downs. Find part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. Northern Australia is a big, empty place. Or at least it seems that way at first glance. Spend some time in the outback, though, and you will discover a tight-knit network of […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – co-Manager, Dampier Downs. Find part 1 here and part 2 here. Live export underpins the economic viability of the northern beef industry. The beef industry in turn contributes significantly to the economic prosperity of northern Australia. There are few other industries (mining and gas extraction […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – co-Manager, Dampier Downs. Find part 1 here. Live export is the mainstay of the northern beef industry. For most of its history, live export barely registered on the radar of many Australians. That all changed in 2011 when footage of abhorrent animal cruelty was aired […]
Host: Dampier Downs Station Written by Anne Marie Huey – co-Manager, Dampier Downs. This year has been a year of extremes. We started with an unprecedented amount of rain and the largest flooding we have ever seen. While rain is always a good thing, it was devastating to see our brand-new paddocks wash away in […]
Host: Northern Beef Futures Written by Northern Beef Futures Team – Department of Agriculture and Food, WA State Government. As part the Department of Agriculture and Food, WA’s (DAFWA) Northern Beef Futures (NBF) project we are working to support industry to facilitate trade and build relationships with importers of WA beef and cattle. One of the […]
Host: Country Downs Station Written by Kurt Elezovich – Owner, Country Downs Station. Today is Kurt’s turn to write again. One of our blogs in 2014 was about our own self-arranged visit to Sumatra where we were absolutely privileged to be able to see first-hand what happens to Australian livestock when it arrives in Indonesia. We […]
Host: Anna Plains Station Written by David Stoate – Owner/Manager, Anna Plains Station. Plenty has been heard in recent years about the opportunity that China represents for Australian business. The northern beef industry is at the centre of this opportunity. The Department of Agriculture and Food in Western Australia has estimated that an increase in per capita […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Kelsie Coppin – Leading Hand and Josje de Bruin – Station Cook/Domestic, Yarrie Station. Kelsie is Senior Station Hand and Livestock Leading Hand and has worked at Yarrie over the past ten years. Her family date back in the Pilbara for over five generations. She is a core part of the […]
Host: Yarrie Station Written by Annabelle Coppin – Owner, Yarrie Station. Building a stronger connection across our complex supply chain. After two weeks of living in the stock camp this month it easy to become quite separated from the rest of the world, to even what is happening in our own cattle industry. The days […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. Last week I spent a day with a group of Western Australian producers and industry representatives who were visiting some feedlots in Indonesia. Inevitably […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. Can our Asian customers pay more for beef if the price suddenly goes up? Short answer: Absolutely. The long answer is a mixture of […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. Why have Indonesian government policies been so unsuccessful at influencing their national beef industry? Because it is not really a beef industry. The Indonesian […]
Host: Ross Ainsworth Want to know more? Keep up to date with Ross’ website the South East Asian Beef Market Report and the Way Laga Cattle & Palm Integration Project on Facebook. I took this photo about a year ago near a tiny fishing village in southern Sumatera. I kept returning to it because there was […]
