Meat & Livestock Australia is looking on grassfed cattle producers for responses to its annual Beef Producer Intentions Survey, being staged over the subsequent month from November 4.
The quick survey, held for the primary time late final 12 months, will proceed to offer visibility and transparency of the trade’s form and route.
The necessity for the survey has been heightened, following latest adjustments to the Federal Authorities’s knowledge assortment on the Australian cattle trade.
Robust participation within the survey will assist enhance the validity of the statistics produced.
Lately, the Australian Bureau of Statistics launched the top-line nationwide figures for the 2024 monetary 12 months. The figures have historically included knowledge on meat and dairy cattle herd inhabitants.
Nevertheless because the ABS has determined that it will likely be modernising the gathering of agricultural statistics to scale back the burden on producers, statistics on the intercourse and age breakdown of Australian cattle herds will now not be included.
Following these adjustments to the information collected by the ABS on cattle, in addition to an extra announcement that the Rural Environmental & Agricultural Commodities Survey (REACS) can be discontinued, MLA has made the choice to utilise the Beef Producers Intentions Survey (BPIS) to switch the ABS in offering invaluable knowledge to Australian beef trade.
The meat survey joins a long-running comparable survey of sheepmeat producers, which attracts sturdy trade participation every year.
Survey breakdown
The BPIS has been thought-about an important instrument for trade, highlighting present home and worldwide market alternatives and adjustments, in addition to offering updates on trade huge adjustments within the herd.
The November wave of the survey goals to gives an outline on the herd profile, producer sentiment, breed demographics, producer intentions, and gross sales up to now.
Beforehand, this wave of the survey has coated about ten p.c of producers throughout the nation, or about 4500 respondents.
Nevertheless, as extra producers take part within the survey, the larger the advantages the survey outcomes can present to trade.
The April wave, which would be the first to happen in 2025, goals to achieve visibility on producer choices relating to spring and autumn calving durations.
As a part of the April survey, MLA goals to cover components that impression producer choice making, together with branding proportion, age of spring calving, turn-off weight and precise vs anticipated gross sales.
In July, MLA follows up with respondents for the Producer Replace survey. The information collected ranges from the next subjects:
- producer intentions over the past 12 months
- deliberate autumn calf drop
- forecasted gross sales over the primary half of the 12 months (January to June).
Because the survey’s preliminary launch, it has steadily elevated in worth because of the rising protection and participation from grassfed cattle producers.
By participating within the BPIS as a beef cattle enterprise, taking part producers will proceed to permit for enormous elevated worth and high quality of data – enhancing transparency within the trade.
Beef producers can full the survey here
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