Matt Brann

Hay prices jumped dramatically in some parts of Australia this week with a supplier saying he had sold more this week than in any of the big droughts in the past 20 years.

Despite global uncertainty, tariffs, Trump and trade wars, demand for Australian beef is breaking records.

Australian grain-fed beef exports to China are surging as the trade war with the US escalates, but some are warning of a bigger, more worrying picture.

Cattle Australia says Donald Trump fails to recognise that the US has had access to the Australian market since 2019, provided it can demonstrate its beef comes from cattle born, raised and slaughtered in the US.

Furious cattle producers are heading back to court to win compensation that hundreds of claimants have still not received since a successful class action against the Commonwealth's 2011 live export ban to Indonesia.

Hundreds of abattoirs in the United States appear to have had their export licences to China extended in a last-minute update by China customs. But questions remain for the beef trade.

The owners of Claravale Farm, who cleared 286 hectares of the property without a land-clearing permit, have reached a settlement with the Northern Territory government. 

Hundreds of abattoirs in the United States are at risk of being banned from exporting meat to China, because their export licences are due to expire this weekend.

A cattle producer in the NT recounts the "horribly amazing" experience of seeing her clothes consumed by an olive python, which returned the items intact in due course.

The national mutton indicator and national processor cow indicator both lifted by 10 per cent this week. Here's what happened. 

Donald Trump loves tariffs, but he also loves affordable hamburgers, which is one reason why Australia's cattle industry is feeling confident about the year ahead.

Ian McBean — who began his career as a ringer, became a boss drover and eventually created his own cattle empire — is remembered as "a pioneer" and one of the industry's strongest advocates.

Buying bait that has been imported from interstate or overseas is now common in the NT after the Territory's only commercial bait business hit trouble.

One of Australia's largest melon producers has bought a portfolio of Indian sandalwood properties in the Douglas Daly region of the NT.

Australia's largest exporter of tallow is the ASX-listed GrainCorp. But how did a grains company get involved in rendered fat?

A cattle company owned by the Holmes à Court family has just paid $12.8 million for a property near Katherine.

The cattle have arrived in Jakarta for Indonesia's new school lunch program. The country's new president has vowed to give all students free lunches and milk through the program, which is set to cost billions of dollars.

An industry analyst says the ramifications for the global beef trade could be significant if the ban is prolonged.

Australia is well on track to have its biggest year for mutton exports. China has been the nation's biggest customer.

The Northern Territory is famous for its fishing, but one iconic species is under threat. The government says tough decisions will need to be made.

Robert F Kennedy Junior has been named the US Secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Trump administration, vowing to "Make America Healthy Again".

Millions of hectares of the Northern Territory have already been burnt in this peak bushfire threat period, with cattle producers now facing a "confluence of really serious weather conditions".

Indonesia is one of Australia's biggest customers for wheat, red meat and live cattle but new president Prabowo Subianto wants the nation to be food self-sufficient within five years.

A rare spring northwest cloudband delivers record rain to parts of outback Australia. The weather event is now moving southeast towards Sydney.

The world sugar price surged by about 15 per cent this week, which was easily the industry's sharpest rally of the year.