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The USDA attache in Australia is calling for a smaller wheat crop in 2025/26.

Smaller Australian wheat crop in 2025/26

Dry conditions cut into production says USDA attaché

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 29, 2025

Australian wheat production has been projected to drop in 2025/26 by 3.11 million tonnes, according to the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Canberra. The attaché projected the country’s wheat output at 31 million tonnes for the coming marketing year.

Charles de Pellette, Operations Director of the restaurant, poses for a picture next to U.S. beef and pork in a smokehouse, at Home Plate BBQ, an American-style restaurant, in Beijing, China April 17, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Tiffany Le

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US beef off the menu as the trade war hits Beijing’s American-style restaurants

US beef exports to China worth $125 million a month at risk

By Ella Cao, Josh Arslan April 21, 2025

Beijing | Reuters – At Home Plate BBQ, an American-style restaurant in Beijing, staff are reprinting menus. The U.S.-China trade war means American beef – once the star ingredient – will soon be off the table. Home Plate’s beef, previously sourced entirely from the U.S., is increasingly Australian. The restaurant uses about 7 to 8 […] Read more

“But we lost a lot of acres… which suggests to me that some organic guys have let some of their organics land go. And they are growing canola on the side,” says Laura Telford. Photo: Greg Berg

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Global rapeseed/canola production dips in April report

USDA lowers output for EU, India

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 10, 2025

World production of rapeseed/canola for 2024/25 was trimmed by almost 0.53 per cent on April 10, when the United States Department of Agriculture released its World Agricultural Production report.

Markets

Western Australia’s wheat harvest exceeds forecast by 1.6 million tons, GIWA says

The 2024 grain growing season ended with the third-largest tonnage on record

By Reuters February 14, 2025

The Grain Industry Association of Western Australia (GIWA) said on Friday that the state's recent harvest yielded approximately 1.6 million metric tons more wheat than its December forecast.

Crops, News

Australia’s canola improves but still lower than 2023/24

Bumps up wheat estimate, trims barley outlook

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 2, 2024

Of Australia's three largest winter crops for 2024/25, canola production was projected to be down from the previous year. Meanwhile, estimates for wheat and barley output were forecast to be higher than a year ago.

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Wheat yields in Western Australia are better than expected, industry body says

By Peter Hobson, Reuters November 22, 2024

Western Australia should produce 420,000 tonnes more wheat this year than was projected a month ago, an industry group said Friday, adding to expectations that Australia's national crop will be larger than pre-harvest estimates.

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USDA lowers U.S. soybean/corn yield estimates

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 8, 2024

There were a few tweaks to the latest monthly report from the United States Department of Agriculture released on Nov. 8. The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates not only lowered yields for U.S. corn and soybeans, the department reduced the ending stocks for both.

A worker packs boxes of processed meat at the Monbeef abattoir in Cooma, Australia October 10, 2024. REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy

Livestock, News

Australia cashes in on beef exports as US cattle herd shrinks

By Peter Hobson, Reuters October 17, 2024

A slump in U.S. beef production has opened the door for Australia to export record amounts of meat, growing its market share in North America and Asia and channelling billions of dollars to cattle processors and farmers.

A quarantine area sign is attached to a tree at a quarantine zone after an outbreak of Bird flu in Victoria, Australia. Photo: AAP Image/Supplied by Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action via Reuters

Livestock, News

Australia, New Zealand brace for looming bird flu threat

By Lucy Craymer, Peter Hobson, Reuters October 9, 2024

Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating vulnerable species and war-gaming response plans.

Protesters hold up signs during a National farmers rally outside Parliament in Canberra, Tuesday, September 10, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)

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Australian farmers protest animal, environment policies they say harm them

By Peter Hobson, Reuters September 10, 2024

Hundreds of farmers from across Australia held a protest on Tuesday against government farming policies they said were influenced by environmental and animal welfare activists and which were harming their livelihoods.

Tag Archives australia — page 2

Smaller Australian wheat crop in 2025/26

US beef off the menu as the trade war hits Beijing’s American-style restaurants

Global rapeseed/canola production dips in April report

Western Australia’s wheat harvest exceeds forecast by 1.6 million tons, GIWA says

Australia’s canola improves but still lower than 2023/24

Wheat yields in Western Australia are better than expected, industry body says

USDA lowers U.S. soybean/corn yield estimates

Australia cashes in on beef exports as US cattle herd shrinks

Australia, New Zealand brace for looming bird flu threat

Australian farmers protest animal, environment policies they say harm them

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