Beef Cattle Farming

The introduced species is crucial for graziers but environmentalists say it poses unacceptable dangers. With a decision about its status looming, both sides are putting their cases forward.

Northern Australia's cattle industry is once again battling the government in the Federal Court, seeking compensation that reflects its losses from the export ban.

The Andrews family wants to revolutionise Australian farming by proving you can run a profitable farm and regenerate the natural environment.

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.

A "riskier and more unpredictable" global trade landscape has Australian exporters worried, but it could present opportunities as well.

Floodwater across outback Queensland is receding but mosquitoes and sandflies carrying a potentially fatal disease are spoiling the reprieve for already battered cattle.  

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.

Donald Trump's commerce secretary indicates Australia should not expect an exemption from tariffs even if it relaxes its restrictions on American beef imports. 

The imposition of US import tariffs is the latest in a long series of challenges for SA farmers, who have battled frost and flooding in recent years, and are currently contending with drought.

Australia is an exporting powerhouse, but the majority of the goods we sell overseas go to Asia.

Australia will be subject to a 10 per cent reciprocal tariff and while Donald Trump is signalling big impacts on Australian beef, he is yet to detail just how large the tariff will be.

Marbling has long been considered essential to steak quality, but new research is highlighting the role of omega-3. 

As American producers lobby Donald Trump to put tariffs on Australian meat imports, a Republican cattle-rancher takes the fight to the US Congress.

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.

Liz, who holds the record as the nation's most expensive border collie working dog, is adjusting well to her new role as doting muster mum.

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.

A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.

Horticulture businesses were some of the hardest hit with strong winds causing widespread damage in orchards.

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.

Nick Colquhoun was acting on adrenaline when he plunged in with wire cutters to free a prized stud bull caught in barbed wire as the floodwaters rose.