Adverse trends in lamb and wool prices and the costs of most purchased inputs have submitted sheep owners to an increasing cost-price squeeze over the latter part of the last decade. This phenomenon has been the cause of concerned comment by industry leaders and has undoubtedly led to extremely...

The view is taken that institutional factors operating in the international beef market limit the usefulness of a competitive spatial equilibrium model for understanding the process of price formation in the Australian beef market. A simple theoretical model is developed to demonstrate the...

This paper focuses on some emerging and recurring issues of wool promotion policy. In particular it examines the implications for wool promotion of recent developments in raw wool marketing policy. The issues analysed are the relationship between International Wool Secretariat (IWS) promotion...

A series of trials was conducted to test the accuracy of livestock market reporters under liveweight selling conditions in Victoria using a range of cattle types. The performance of the market reporters in carcass weight and fat cover estimation was poorer for cows than for bullocks, while the...