Australian Beef Output Soars and Lowering Egg Prices Act
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Beef output and exports from Australia, the world’s second-largest meat shipper, are expected to set records this year amid increased slaughter rates for female animals.
A USDA report from the agency’s office in Canberra,
Australia, says production will be 2.65 million metric tons in 2025, a 2.4% year-over-year increase and up from earlier projections.
That would be the highest level on record, topping the previous mark set in 2014.
**With regards to the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada and its impact on dairy farmers, National Farmers Union President Rob Larew says policymakers are focused on U.S. trade policy without solving the underlying problems in the dairy industry.
He says those challenges include corporate consolidation and continued overproduction.
Larew says broad dairy tariffs don’t solve these problems; they destabilize the industry, drive up costs, and create more uncertainty.
**Representatives have introduced “The Lowering Egg Prices Act.”
The bipartisan bill would lower egg prices for consumers by cutting bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to discard hundreds of millions of eggs each year.
Federal regulations require farmers to refrigerate eggs immediately after they are laid.
But that rule doesn’t distinguish between table eggs, and breaker eggs which has forced chicken farmers to throw away almost 400 million perfectly good eggs every year.
