{"id":89098,"date":"2025-05-10T03:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89098\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:54:17","slug":"australian-beef-surges-into-china-and-united-states-during-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89098\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian beef surges into China and United States during trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia exported more than 127,000 tonnes of beef last month, a record for April.<\/p>\n

The biggest customer was the United States (37,213 tonnes), followed by China (21,572 tonnes).<\/p>\n

The record month for Australia comes as beef exports from the United States to China have ground to a halt<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, many analysts feel it is too early to attribute Trump tariffs and trade wars to the noticeable uptick in exports.<\/p>\n

Meat and Livestock Australia’s global supply analyst, Tim Jackson, said the surge in export volumes was fundamentally because of record supply.<\/p>\n

“Last year we saw record beef exports and record beef production [in Australia] and we are well-positioned to achieve that again this year,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Australia has a large herd, rising slaughter rates and carcass weights have been lifting consistently, so when measured in tonnes, our production is going up and that good supply flows into exports.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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China has ramped up its imports of Australian grain-fed beef. (ABC Landline)<\/p>\n

China’s grain-fed beef binge<\/p>\n

Australia’s feedlot sector is also on the rise, and last month the nation exported more than 37,000 tonnes of grain-fed beef \u2014 which is a record for any month.<\/p>\n

China bought one-third of that product and so far this year has imported about 42,000 tonnes of grain-fed beef from Australia, up 36 per cent on the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Mr Jackson was reluctant to say how much of a role the trade war between the US and China had played.<\/p>\n

“It’s difficult to say at the moment, these are fairly early figures and we’d need to wait for more information to come out and get a better understanding of that trade dynamic,” he said.<\/p>\n

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There were 6,200 head of cattle for sale at Wodonga this week, a record yarding for the month of May. (ABC Rural: Annie Brown)<\/p>\n

According to Global Agritrends, beef exports from the United States to China have dried up and Chinese importers recently cancelled orders for 5,500 tonnes.<\/p>\n

It is reporting that other international markets have “absorbed the lost Chinese volumes” with South Korea and Japan in particular buying big.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cattle pour into saleyards<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, cattle flooded into southern saleyards of Australia this week as the dry weather forced producers to sell.<\/p>\n

There was a record yarding at Wagga Wagga on Monday of nearly 8,700 head.<\/p>\n

The national livestock reporting service described it as “an unprecedented influx of cattle that surprised agents”.<\/p>\n

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Wagga Wagga and Wodonga also had record yardings this week, with dry weather forcing producers to sell. (ABC Rural: Annie Brown)<\/p>\n

“The surge in numbers is primarily attributed to ongoing water issues and a lack of feed, which have forced many farmers to sell, with some farmers having no choice but to commence liquidating their cow herds,” wrote market reporter Leann Dax.<\/p>\n

“Agents in Wagga expect this trend to continue as conditions remain dire.”<\/p>\n

Nearly 10,000 head of cattle are booked in for sale at Wagga on Monday.<\/p>\n

At Wodonga on Thursday about 6,200 head were penned, which was a record yarding for May.<\/p>\n

Speaking to ABC Landline, livestock agent Katie Lewis said prices held firm thanks to demand from feedlots and producers further north who have green grass.<\/p>\n

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Katie Lewis says producers selling cattle because of the drought have received good prices this week at Wodonga. (ABC Rural: Annie Brown)<\/p>\n

“A lot of farmers that went through the process of feeding livestock last year have decided they’re not doing it again this year,” she said.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people have decided to bite the bullet, the money is good and they’ve decided to sell early.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There’s been good support from our friends in the north who have had a cracking start to the year and are here today buying, so the energy at the sale has been really positive.”<\/p>\n

The national cattle indicators eased across the board this week, including the processor cow indicator falling 22 cents a kilogram to reach its lowest level of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch ABC TV’s Landline at 12:30pm on Sunday\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/strong>ABC iview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia exported more than 127,000 tonnes of beef last month, a record for April. The biggest customer was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[42366,42367,42365,1395,42364,42363,479,1219,1757,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-89098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-australian-beef","9":"tag-beef-demand","10":"tag-beef-exports","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-grain-fed-beef","13":"tag-saleyards","14":"tag-tariffs","15":"tag-trade-war","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114481523222629429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}