This is what you've missed lately in the Australian Goat Report...
October 31, 2008:
- Tough conditions continue for exporters
- Domestic markets still undersupplied
- Highs and lows at Dubbo Goat Sale
- Goatmeat features in the capital
- An 'acrimonious' Mohair Australia AGM
- Continued uncertainty for the Boer Goat Association AGM
- Cape mohair prices still rising
- Other regular features including Quick Bits and the export goatmeat Price Indicator
October 15, 2008:
- Global meltdown, but goatmeat markets hold better than others
- Live exports strong, and may get stronger
- National Mohair online
- Cape mohair prices rebound
- A response on the fibre levy ........
- ..... and suggestions on marketing for the goat transaction levy
- More changes to NLIS on the way
- Boer association heads to court
September 30, 2008:
- Global financial crisis impacts mohair sale
- Prices also fall at the Cape
- Change to mohair sector governance
- Carcase quality: the statistics from this year's Adelaide Led Wether and Royal Melbourne Hoof n Hook
- More Royal results
- Export goatmeat markets update
September 15, 2008:
- It's a start: modest price increases
- Animal transport verdict delivered
- Cashmere markets wither
- A drop in mohair quality and prices at the Cape
August 31, 2008:
- Big live export orders for fullblood boers
- Export meat prices still on hold
- The last word on Waikerie abattoir
- More musings on international goatmeat markets
- Fewer goat transactions in 2007-08 means a dip in levy income
- Big production and profitability gains with EBVs
- 2008 Ekka
August 15, 2008:
- Simmering live export prices
- $AUD falls, but no proce rises yet
- Big Dubbo sale: full report
- Cape mohair winter season opener
- No board? Two boards? The latest on the battle to control the Boer Association
- Mohair Australia has a vacancy too
July 30, 2008:
- Young abattoir adds a third regular operator
- Markets update: the US, Taiwan, and what about EU?
- Sydney skin-on market contracts
- More on worms: protecting Caprimec
- Selling this season's cashmere clip
- Quick bits: including upcoming workshops
July 15, 2008:
- January-June export volumes dip
- A small EU win
- Skin-on goats to the UK - a huge, unserviced market
- Little chance for change to South Australian pastoral policy
- Australian Premium Goat Meat offers "the total solution"
- Two new rare fibre research projects
- Extraordinary meeting outcome pushes Boer Association into unchartered waters
June 30, 2008:
- Malaysian protocol issue resolved; live exports full steam ahead
- Export goatmeat prices edge up
- Tight supply, new competition, substitution, undercutting: just another day in domestic markets
- Australian boer skins to Europe
- Cape summer mohair season closes on a high
- Quick bits: news briefs on slaughter statistics, an NLIS breach, animal ID in the US, emergency animal disease, and more
June 15, 2008:
- This quarter's improving outlook
- today's export prices in 2006 dollars
- winter worm management: preparing for kidding
- mohair's changing fortune: some current marketing and production issues
- Goat manual for Malaysian farmers
- Tough going in WA: quiet live export and slaughter markets
May 31, 2008:
- Another export processor ceases operations
- casting the net for alternatives
- parliamentarians taste goatmeat
- Australian mohair prices continue to slip
- the international mohair market also cools
- online livestock library
May 15, 2008:
- Predicting supply - it's a matter of price
- Plenty of competition at Dubbo sale: price roundup
- a prime goatmeat market in Brisbane
- horn types and live export
- Mohair prices slide in Australia, steady at the Cape
- the next 5 year rare fibre R&D plan
- cashmere is working through the pipeline
April 30, 2008:
- Little change in domestic markets
- Sydney's weekly 1,000 head backyard trade
- refining live export practice
- 2009 Year of Natural Fibres: opportunities
- Farm Biosecurity - maintaining a visitor register
- US meat stocks at record levels
- Quickbits: a field day, and a forum
April 15, 2008:
- Export goatmeat prices finally heading in the right direction
- care with price cliffs
- Unveiling MLA's new trade support material
- more price increases for fine mohair
- Europe drives demand
- Queensland meningitis find: no cause for concern
- Have your say on livestock transport standards
- 2008 Sydney Royal Show
- SELECTION SYSTEMS: EBVs - pedigree and performance
March 31, 2008
- Charleville abattoir closes temporarily, but Mudgee Co-op closes for good
- Malaysian authorities give 3 month stay on test protocols
- MLA's goatmeat R&D survey outcomes
- rare fibre R&D under threat?
- Goat Industry Council reps change
- kid mohair prices surge at the Cape
- scientists discover new drench class, but no excitement yet
- SELECTION SYSTEMS: measured performance
March 15, 2008
- new test demand threatens Malaysian trade
- export prices continue to tumble
- building an Indonesian industry
- fight to retain CSIRO scour gathers momentum
- mohair classing in full swing
- angora show and sale season wraps up
- 2008 Royal Canberra results
February 29, 2008
- Brace yourselves: more difficult times ahead for goatmeat exports
- Ups and downs in Asian markets for live export goats
- Get in quick to sell stored cashmere
- Mohair roundup: South Africa
- the 2008 mohair outlook
- Bendigo sale posts Helmsman success
- SELECTION SYSTEMS: visual appraisal
February 15, 2008
- A big live export year: the 2007 live export stats
- Perth verdict opens new round in live export battle
- Dubbo sale report
- Boers to $850 at Gippsland sale
- Capretto - getting it right
- Mohair roundup: Texas
- Two animal health workshops
January 30, 2008
- THE 2008 GOAT BUYER'S GUIDE! free with this issue
- goatmeat back on the shelves of a major supermarket chain
- a lot of water, but still no price rises
- the feral goat Threat Abatement Plan
- JD update: still low prevalence, and PFC finally approved
- NLIS tag trial results: some winners, some losers
- Mohair roundup: the New Zealand industry
- small step forward for cashmere
- PIRD program review
January 15, 2008:
- 2008's opening prices
- 2007 export volumes tell the story
- strong outlook for live export
- carving up Meat & Livestock Australia's goat R&D pie
- barber's pole worm alert
- smart drench choices
- complete clearance at Cowra angora sale
- Quick bits: 4 sales, 3 workshops, 2 shows, 1 hoof-and hook comp, and more
December 4, 2007:
- Closing a forgettable year
- Marketwatch USA: competition from a domestic US industry?
- a swag of mohair sales at home and at the Cape, but no clear trend
- RIRDC reviews Rare Natural Fibres program
- Live exporters buoy Dubbo prices
- Consider capretto: more needed for Sydney market
- Improved 1080 access for Victorian producers
- Quick bits
November 15, 2007:
- Goat parasite report: the findings and recommendations
- Growing the knowledge base: management for optimal eating quality
- GiG continues to grow
- Leading goat researcher quits, but leaves a 30-year legacy of goat industry research summarised in the free poster with this issue.
- Scant meat and boer goat R&D
- Reprieve for CSIRO scour and fibre R&D?
- Quick bits
October 30, 2007:
- The politics of agriculture: from quarantine to land use, live export, R&D, and food production: policy from both sides
- Producers look to live export options, from Malaysia to Madagascar
- Staus quo for goat skin markets
- Low meat prices blamed for scuttled WA season
- Changed approach to footrot in WA
- Dynamic start for new Boer Breeders' board
- New Mohair Australia board will consider future direction
- The latest reading on fibre technology
- Announcing the 2008 Goat Buyers' Catalogue: your invitation to list
- Quick bits
October 15, 2007
- Scour closure a blow to specialty fibres
- Goatmeat- domestic prices well ahead
- Adelaide carcases reinforce 'lean' message
- "Voluntary" QA becomes mandatory: the impact of new Australian food standards
- Introducing RIRDC's new Rare Natural Fibres committee
- Shifting Texan growers to measurements: the 2007 San Angelo trial
- Quick bits
September 30, 2007:
- Meat prices plummet - don't say you weren't warned!
- Perth capretto season kicks off
- Local mohair prices fall: dollar impacts AMMO sale
- ...... but Cape mohair sells to "a positive trend"
- Successful inaugural Melbourne hoof 'n' hook
- Boer and mohair associations: out with the old, in with the new
- Quick bits, including another glimpse at the emergency animal disease management process
September 15, 2007:
- Rangeland sector reaches consensus on NLIS
- Coo-ee Taiwan: still missing from the marketplace
- Defining, and redefining, domestic market specifications: updates from the wholesalers
- Big field for Mohair Australia board election
- prices steady at second winter Cape mohair sale
- After sales service with live export clients
- Another live export buyer
- Quick bits
August 31, 2007:
- What's a Standstill?
- NLIS decided in Queensland
- Marketwatch Indonesia: air and sea shipments test the waters
- Opportunities to background goats
- Restructure for RIRDC's fibres committee
- 1.8 million goat transactions, and $577,000 in levies
- MLA's marketing expenditure in 2006-07
- Action on levies: exempting low value goats, and ending the Victorian OJD "stamp duty"
- Quick bits
August 15, 2007
- Live exports continue to climb, in both numbers and value
- Ausgoat: back to the future
- more abattoir updates - news from Country Fresh, Kerridale, Gingin and Geraldton
- competition sparks price rises
- UK FMD outbreak: watching the process
- breeding for temperament
- new book on organic livestock production
- Cape mohair season sale opener
- Quick bits
July 31, 2007
- It's about time: registered goat drench finally released
- review your drench strategy
- abattoir shake-ups, and shake-downs: a new competitor
- honours for Bourke goat producers
- goatmeat features at Sydney Regional Food Fair
- goatmeat features on the menu at Old Parliament House
- goatmeat features soon in pies
- Quick bits
July 16, 2007
- export meat price pain continues
- January - June meat exports fall
- Gingin abattoir reopened
- organic goatmeat opportunity
- the mohair benchmarking project: a progress report
- positive forecast for 2007 cashmere season
- Entries sought for Melbourne carcase comp
- Quick bits
June 30, 2007
- top export processors reject tagging
- Q fever in the headlines again
- Dubbo sale report
- other live export destinations show interest
- Australian Mohair Marketing's sale report
- goat supply picks up
- Quick bits
June 15, 2007
- No policy change yet in South Australia
- Cobar forum airs "ownership" issues
- More on NLIS
- Goat prices inch upwards
- Another service kill client at Young abattoir
- A reply on skin-on market access
- EGT mohair trial concludes
- EU considers relaxing feed ban
- Quick bits
May 31, 2007
- New mohair auction competitor
- All's quiet on the abattoir front: shutdowns
- Live export goat numbers stretched too
- Another domestic market change
- Breeding for worm resistance: final report
- Cashmere association now Inc
- Latest Cape mohair sale report
- Quick bits
May 15, 2007
- Goat prices reflect market pressure
- The pastoralists' checklist: Bushley Boer Buck Trial final report
- FUTURE MARKETS: fine dining partnerships?
- FUTURE MARKETS: feedback from chefs
- FUTURE MARKETS: skin-on goats to Europe?
- Domestic goat meat specs evolve
- Prices drop at 5th Cape mohair sale
- Quick bits
- AGR export goatmeat Price Indicator
April 30, 2007
- Competition in the commodity goatmeat market
- A changing Australian goatmeat supply profile
- FUTURE MARKETS: capretto to Italy?
- FUTURE MARKETS: a premium weight and age market?
- Dubbo Goat Sale report
- Skin on goats in the domestic market
- Explaining condemns
- Quick bits: slaughter stats, field days, abattoir maintenance and more
- AGR export goatmeat Price Indicator
April 16, 2007
- Goat meat prices hold for now, despite record $A
- The fickle domestic goatmeat market
- Spending your marketing dollar - outcomes from the goatmeat marketing taskforce
- NLIS: inspectors swoop at Sydney Royal
- NLIS: the 2008 colour question
- NLIS: more on exemptions
- Mohair prices surge in South Africa
- Mohair prices lift at AMMO sale
- Quick bits
March 31, 2007
- NLIS, round 2
- Finding a way forward in the tagging debate
- RLPBs and goats
- Waikeries halts production
- Abattoir round-up
- Policing transaction levy collection
- An end to the Cormo levy
- Positive mohair season continues at the Cape
- Quick bits...........upcoming field days and workshops and more
- AGR export goatmeat Price Indicator
March 15, 2007
- D-day approaches - tagging, fencing and harvesting rivalries at a head
- Goat meat market update
- A round-up of saleyard prices for goats in the US
- Prices lift at second summer Cape mohair sale
- Big money for the right angoras - Vic and NSW sales
- Shortening the genetic interval
- Quick bits........... field days and more
- AGR export goatmeat Price Indicator
February 28, 2007
- 2006 goat live export stats
- wethers vs billies #2
- Happy vendors and buyers at Dubbo sale
- Marketwatch - Malaysia
- Gippsland Boer Sale report
- Familiar issues - animal ID in the US
- Status quo for mohair marketing
- Diappointing Cape mohair opener
- Introducing............ mohair Handbook now available
- Abattoir changes
January 30, 2007
- MLA survey finds unfulfilled domestic opportunity
- market update
- recommendations on residue management for goats
- another wait for effective, legal drench
- a watching brief on organics
- slow angora sales
- on hold at Cashmere Connections
- Quick bits: another live export buyer; domestic wholesalers expand value-adding; a change in consumer preference
- our exclusive Meat Schedule and goatmeat Price Indicator
January 15, 2007
- Another rise in goatmeat export volumes in 2006
- Markets still "Settling in"
- Young abattoir suspends goat kills
- New Goat NVD now being distributed
- Outlook 2007: meat markets tipped to grow further
- Outlook 2007: live export optimisim to continue
- Outlook 2007: tough year for mohair volumes
- our exclusive Meat Schedule: all the major meat and live export buyers
December 4, 2006
- New abattoir for western division?
- 2006 abattoir wrap
- National Residue Survery Report
- Wethers vs Billies
- National Mohair Pool's sale report
- AMMO's sale report
- Drought Tales
November 15, 2006
- The recipe for boer success
- Malaysian live export interest
- Action on chemical issue
- More Cape results
- Drought tales: Feeding early weaned kids
October 30, 2006
- Live export prices at new highs
- Confusion with health statements
- Season meat update
- Live export option for angora breeders
- Cape results
- Mohair Australia decides on change
- Export volumes up
October 15, 2006
- Skin prices remain steady
- WA goat industry waiting to happen
September 30, 2006
- export demand thins domestic supply
- goat prices vs sheep and lamb prices: one in the eye for the tyre kickers
- Beaufort River abattoir re-opens
- MLA research yields an end to bandsaw injuries
- sales go begging in WA
- mohair price slide slows
- AMMO sale report
- Royals at Melbourne and Perth
September 15, 2006
- Introducing: the AGR's goatmeat price indicator
- peak season is earlier, longer, stronger
- new RIRDC fibres committee
- performance based selection for mohair and cashmere flocks
- mohair prices slip again at Port Elizabeth
- Malaysia: from customer to competitor
- traceability? Royal Adelaide's hoof and hook disaster
- Royal Adelaide show roundup
August 31, 2006
- Q fever issue escalates
- abattoir roundup: news from Wodonga, Wallangarra, Charleville, Mudgee and Beaufort River
- surge in goat supply
- using scanning measurements
- Longreach leads in pastoral education
- a drop in transaction levy
- 2006 Royal Brisbane results
August 15, 2006
- hot, hotter, hottest: export prices hit $3.30/kg
- live export goats sought after too
- Live exports to Malaysia up in numbers and value
- new buyers at Dubbo goat sale
- agvet chemical confusion in South Australia
- the Q fever issue - scapegoats again?
- Cape winter mohair season opener
July 31, 2006
- Measuring our performance - prices
- Measuring our performance - producers
- Measuring our performance - production
- Ministers and media: more GIG guide launches
- Domestic wholesalers still struggling to meet demand
- More on the ruminant feed ban
- Modelling mohair enterprise performance
- Bendigo Sheep Show results
July 15, 2006
- abattoir roundup: one down, one up
- January-June goatmeat export statistics
- MLA's new goatmeat marketing strategy
- patience: still waiting for an approved goat drench
- opportunities for organics
- comparing the South African and Australian mohair clips: losing our fineness edge?
- intestinal worms vs frosts?
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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June 30, 2006
- chemicals, markets and traceability again......... two state investigation follows residue detection
- diazinon review allows continued use on goats
- animal welfare: checking stock are fit to load
- animal welfare: abattoirs must report breaches
- goats finally make the Ag Census
- AMMO sale report: mohair prices on the slide
- prices slip also at the Cape
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
- Interested in meat? You need the AGR's exclusive fortnightly meat schedule
June 15, 2006
- processors report record winter throughput
- meals-in-a-box: the next step in value adding
- DPI working with producers to build capability in Queensland
- raising the (price) bar for domestic skin-on
- opportunities for Australian growers in India's booming textile industry
- price incentives for fine, white cashmere
- NLIS stoush continues
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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May 31, 2006
- Launch of MLA's new goat manual
- Complete clearance at National Mohair Pool's sale
- Cape mohair sale report
- Export prices continue to gain ground
- ACGA AGM
- Goat antibodies for biomedical applications
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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May 16, 2006
- Goat NVD to become "more marketable"
- Export prices lift
- Dubbo sale report
- Micathel Boer Stud's Open Day and Sale
- Still more on NLIS
- Cape mohair sale report
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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April 30, 2006
- New technology for mohair marketing: laserscan at National Mohair Pool
- Niche marketing - Cootamundra Kid goatmeat
- Niche marketing - Redhead meats
- NLIS tags and accreditation
- Demand for live export goats continues
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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April 15, 2006
- New export processor
- Goatmeat for the new age consumer
- More on NLIS
- Cape sale report
- The 2006 RAS Show Legend: Darrell Bishop
- 2006 RAS report
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March 30, 2006
- Mohair prices continue to climb
- Export goatmeat production returns to NSW
- Goatmeat exporter Samex publishes its goat buying prices
- Report on Singapore markets
- Pooled faecal culture testing for Johne's disease validated for goats
- Johne's disease forces sale cancellation
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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March 15, 2006
- Easter demand for capretto
- New domestic abattoir effectively non-operational
- Mohair prices still on the rise
- Confident buying at National Angora sale
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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February 28, 2006
- Total value of production of the Australian goat industry 2005 = $100M
- West Wyalong abbatoir sold
- Prices up at Dubbo
- Weak demand at Benalla Goat Sale
- Strong start to SA Cape season
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February 15, 2006
- Live export sector records declining trade in 2005
- Australian Premium Goat Meat continues to make inroads
- Nutrition and management of goats in drought published
- Good demand for Gippsland does
- Angora does continue to clear
- Crossbred doe orders continue
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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January 30, 2006
- Mohair value-adding report
- Still on Broken Hill: Western Exporters takes the reins
- Opportunity for seedstock breeders for use by commercial breeders
- Too few angora buyers at recent stud sales
- Boer buck trial to commence at Ivanhoe
- Competitor watch
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January 15, 2006
- New record for Australian goatmeat shipments in 2005
- More on Broken Hill
- 2006 opening export goatmeat prices
- Cashmere prices steady locally
- SA mohair Winter selling season report
- Ausgoat Co. to close
- Sales and Shows
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December 12, 2005
- The year in review: 2005 for export and domestic goatmeat, mohair and cashmere
- Update on Broken Hill
- National Livestock Identification System for goats
- AMMO sale results
- Every Goat Tested mohair classing
- Changes at GICA and at Mohair Australia
- Q fever vaccine
- Classifieds! Free for subscribers. Angoras, boers, meat goats, cashmeres and equipment for sale
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This is the AGR's final issue for 2005. Season's greetings to all readers and website visitors.
The AGR will return on January 15, 2006.
November 22, 2005
- Records tumble at National Mohair sale
- Rumblings of mohair buyer discontent
- Broken Hill abattoir closes
- New BGBAA national board
- Report from Karbo Boer stud's Open Day and Sale
- The Terraweena anniversary
- Consignment of Australian angora genetic material heads to Argentina
- Victorian goat levy controversy
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October 31, 2005
- Strategic planning workshop between GICA and MLA representatives focusses effort on domestic market
- National Residue Survey delivers clean bill of health
- Neguvon off-label permit extended
- Dubbo Goat Sale report
- Report from the Cape mohair sale
- Meat price rises
- Fortnightly upcoming event diary
- Selling? Buying? You need the fortnightly Classifieds! Free for subscribers.
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October 15, 2005
- Rising production costs and slowing prices cause "price squeeze"
- Some kill operators pass on costs to producers
- Marketing new season's capretto
- A review of the Horsham angora sire evaluation project report
- International mohair prices continue to rise
- An AI mystery
- Fortnightly meat schedule
September 30, 2005
- Demand for adult and young goat mohair
- Buyers urge an increase in mohair production
- Virbac's drench registration trial continues to make progress
- Production resumes at Broken Hill abattoir
- Report from the Royal Adelaide Show
- Report from the 3rd International Cashmere Determination Technique Symposium
- BGBAA elections in NSW and Queensland
- Classifieds
- Fortnightly meat schedule
September 15, 2005
- Meat supply picks up
- Outlook grim at Broken Hill abattoir
- Oberon abattoir redeveloped
- The Economist article exposes industry potential to investors worldwide
- Live meat export interest
- NZ mohair
- Mohair prices firm in South Africa
- Royal Brisbane Show results
- Fortnightly meat schedule
August 30, 2005
- Geraldton Meat Exports abattoir wins US licence
- Abattoir round-up
- More on meat goat supply and production requirements for fibre
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's finalises levy collection figures
- About Animal Health Australia
- Opening sale of Cape mohair winter selling season positive
- Fortnightly Meat Schedule
August 15, 2005
- Broken Hill Exports in voluntary administration
- More orders for crossbred does
- Live export trade shrinking
- A producer's experience of undergoing a Livestock Producer Assurance audit
- Another hot Dubbo sale
- Results from the 2005 Bendigo Sheep Show
- Changing the name from "feral"
- Progress with polled boers
July 31, 2005
- Meat export prices hit $3/kg
- Improved seasonal conditions prompts demand for breeding does
- Proposal for boer goat classification system
- Mohair benchmarking project set for takeoff
- National Livestock Identification System discussion continues
- Issues in Western Australia
- Wins with domestic marketing
July 15, 2005
- Goatmeat exports up
- Victoria nudges ahead with production
- Competition for cashmere
- The Cape Summer 2005 mohair selling season
- Abattoir update
- MLA industry development officer role continued and extended
- New Zealand meat
June 30, 2005
- Exporter wants goat producers to work with processors to grow new market opportunities
- New evidence points to worm resistance
- Warnings on the chemical issue
- Dubbo sale is a mid-winter scorcher
- Another domestic opportunity for prime goatmeat
- Courses in goat production: opportunities in Queensland
- Fallout from confirmed BSE cow in US
June 15, 2005
- Processors scramble for goats
- Tight feed, cold, rain: watch goats' condition carefully
- Updates from 3 eastern states domestic wholesalers
- Mohair prices up locally, and at the Cape
- Mohair pays
- Who's who at Goat Industry Council
- Biosecurity Tip #4
May 31, 2005
- Review teams from Malaysia & US inspect abattoirs
- An early start to skin-on season: export prices lift
- $3/kg "benchmark" on domestic front
- NLIS - what's it all about?
- RIRDC funds 3 new mohair projects
- South African mohair sale trends
May 15, 2005
- Live exports: new standards cause turmoil
- Average prices up $1.50/kg at mohair auction sale
- More on the Every Goat Tested mohair experiment
- First cashmere price schedule announced
- Kyneton goat sale report
- Micathel Boer Goat Stud Sale report
April 30, 2005
- Goats in national parks
- Industry 'best practice' manual underway
- First quarter export volumes up
- Mohair prices continue to rise at the Cape
- New opportunities for marketing cashmere
- Protect Australian Livestock campaign materials
- 2005 Toowoomba show
April 15, 2005
- Export meat prices in check
- Mohair: complete clearance, prices up
- Reports from Gympie & Gatton sales
- Goat growth rates: new compendium
- Changes at waikerie abattoir
- Shortage of kill space in eastern states
- Goats wanted for Melbourne markets
March 30, 2005
- Broken Hill Exports expands
- The big sell-off continues
- More live export goats wnated
- Dubbo goat sale report
- Benalla goat sale report
- National Angoras Show & Sale report
- Wagin results
March 15, 2005
- Our special 10th anniversary issue WHY GOATS? describes how some of
our best producers manage their enterprises
February 28, 2005
- Goat abattoir wins $616,000 grant
- Pastoral region boer buck trial kicks off
- Gingin plant gains US listing
- Organising Easter turn-off
- Predictions for speciality fibres
- Two perspectives on NLIS
- Australasian Angora Show results
February 15, 2005
- Report confirms strong US prospects
- Can Australian production meet demand?
- 2004 Live exports review
- Abattoir round-up
- Gippsland boer sale report
- Alamo/Cudal Angora sale report
January 31, 2005
- Goat Industry Development Officer signs up
- Plentiful supply + high prices
- Weethalle Angora sale report
- Cowra Angora sale report
- BSE confirmed in French goat
- Domestic market progress
- The role of Kidplan
January 15, 2005
- Prices open on a high
- 2004 goatmeat exports analysis
- Live export rule changes
- Dairy RAP funding for 2 goat businesses
- Guide to the NSW Goat Health Statement
December 8, 2004
- The year's best prices
- Successful opening for WA export plant
- Chevon features on MLA menu
- Terraweena Boers sale report
- Christmas price rise for domestic suppliers
- Mohair prices steady
- Your drought experiences sought
