The recent diagnosis of Johnes Disease in sheep on a property in Northern NSW is a timely reminder of the importance of enacting a Farm Biosecurity Plan.
New technology designed to allow Australian sheep producers to mitigate pain in their lambs during marking is ready to be tested more extensively in commercial conditions in new on-farm research part-funded by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA).
There were lifts across all micron price guides with significant gains in 18 – 20 Micron Price guides at the southern selling centre, whilst the superfine wools 17.5µ and below bounced back after losses in recent weeks.
The national saleyard mutton indicator reached an all-time high of 540¢/kg carcase weight (cwt) on Tuesday, which is 2% higher than the previous record set in May 2017.
The introduction of carcase grading to boost the predictive power of the Meat Standards Australia (MSA) sheepmeat program is in the pipeline, as researchers look to further enhance lamb’s eating quality.