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Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) will open a new office in Indonesia to service Australia’s third-largest beef export market in time for Christmas. MLA general manager of international markets and economic services Peter Barnard said the new office in Jakarta would be “about providing support and creating a partnership between the export industry in Australia [...]
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In the largest single petition submitted to the Rudd Government’s Petitions Committee, 34,000 members of the Australian public have signalled their opposition to live animal exports to the Middle East, adding to the 225,208 already presented to the Senate in previous years. Animals Australia presented the petition to the Senate this week in the wake [...]
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Australia will revise its ban on beef imports after meat exporters from countries thought to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or ‘mad cow’ disease, threatened to go to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over unfair trade barriers. Red Meat Advisory Council chairman Ian McIvor said due to the latest scientific knowledge and the negligible risks of [...]
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Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has responded to a report commissioned by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, which found that processed sheep meat was worth 20 percent more than live sheep exports. However, MLA believes reducing live sheep exports in favour of processing meat locally would damage the economy and cost Australia [...]
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Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has embarked on a trade mission that will see her spruik education to India, open a trade office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and convince Russia to lift import bans on kangaroo meat. Bligh’s first stop is Queensland’s fourth largest trading partner, India, where the Premier will put forward Queensland’s [...]
...read moreRegional Queensland councils have called for government assistance on behalf of the kangaroo industry, due to its importance to the economy of remote communities. Russia’s August ban on kangaroo meat imports due to health concerns has crippled the industry, which now needs funding to adjust to new harvesting requirements. Before the ban, Russia represented more [...]
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Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott says a plan to cull 650,000 feral camels and leave their corpses in the desert is a lost trade opportunity. The Federal Government gave $19 million to Alice Springs’ Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre to shoot the wild camels from helicopters. Scott says the government has issued a quick fix, [...]
...read moreMeat and Livestock Australia (MLA) predicts that the Middle East will become Australia’s biggest market for lamb exports this year, after projections showed volumes will rise another 36 percent. According to the MLA’s 2009 Sheep Industry Projections Mid Year Update, total volumes shipped would be more than 34,000 tons. However, they expect a 10 percent [...]
...read moreFrom August 1, 2009, Russia will cease to import kangaroo meat from Australia due to concerns about food safety. The method for harvesting roo meat is different from the handling of cattle, which has raised some quality issues. “They’re saying that there’s a systemic problem with the import of kangaroo meat into Russia and they’re [...]
...read moreFigures for the first quarter of 2009 show that demand for Australian beef has slowed in global markets as customers deal with credit issues, consume a backlog of meat in storage or buy cheaper beef from competing countries. To add to the woes, Australian production has been high this year which has meant more supply [...]
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