Carcase

Climate council urges meat processors to reconfigure the carcase specification bonus payment scheme to favour animals finished at an earlier age.

The accelerated roll out of protected urea fertiliser, increased uptake of methane reducing feed and manure additives are among the key areas of impactful gains to drive down emissions, the CCAC said.

Quotes have risen this week by 10c/kg, with factory agents having to source lighter lambs to try to secure numbers.

High cattle price and less supply drove Tyson's beef business into the red this year.

The calves are all dairy-bred bulls, which are bought from rearing houses run by Linden Foods.

Quotes in the south have remained unchanged from earlier in the week as a floor has been put under lamb prices, with Northern factories having to increase quotes to entice numbers

It is ironic that the top quality beef bred carcases are often outside supermarket specification while dairy bred cattle do.

While steers, heifers and weanlings have fallen slightly this week, demand for cull cows seems to be insatiable.