Cattle & Sheep Market Intelligence

Australian livestock prices, processing, trade & market context — sources: MLA/NLRS, RBA, ABS, ABARES, NOAA, Beef Central.

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Animal All Cattle Sheep & lamb

Overview

At a glance

Latest from Beef Central

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Livestock Price Indicator

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Red Meat Exports — monthly tonnes

NLRS Weekly Slaughter — by species

Relationships & market signals

Export parity — EYCI vs US imported 90CL vs A$ (indexed to 100)

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Young-cattle prices are anchored to export demand: when US 90CL imported-beef prices and the A$ move, EYCI tends to follow. Indexing all three to 100 at a common start shows who is leading.

ENSO lead/lag — does La Niña / El Niño move cattle prices?

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ONI ≥ +0.5 °C = El Niño (typically drier in eastern Australia), ≤ −0.5 °C = La Niña (wetter — drives herd rebuilding and restocker demand). The correlation pairs each month's EYCI with the ONI value the selected number of months earlier.

Price & statistics summaries — latest vs trailing 12 months

Macro — rates, inflation & commodity prices

RBA Cash Rate Target — 10 years

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ABS CPI — All groups (index)

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Brent crude oil (US$/bbl)

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US diesel — pump price (US$/gal)

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Urea / fertiliser (price index)

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Freight & shipping

No free live feed (Baltic Dry / Freightos are paywalled). Reference: Baltic Exchange ↗

ABARES — weekly commodity prices

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Global commodity prices

Weather & climate

ENSO — NOAA Oceanic Niño Index (3 yrs)

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