Month: March 2024

To properly analyse long term financial data, inflation needs to removed from the data to understand changes in real terms, which reflect the changes in purchasing power over time. We’ve updated our long-term analysis of the Queensland cattle market to include March data (to 25/3/24). This is shown in the graph below, which shows an index of Queensland cattle prices in real terms over the last 38 years. The coloured bands are the percentile ranges for the preceding 20 years. Queensland cattle prices are currently sitting at the 46th percentile of 20yr prices. While prices today do seem low relative to the high seen in December 2021, since which time they have dropped 47% in real terms, the cattle market has been lower than the current level for nearly half…

In the Bush AgriBusiness December newsletter, we wrote about the importance of going beyond information to knowledge and application. We think this is a very relevant topic for anyone who has done a Business EDGE workshop, whether recently or in the distant past.We acknowledge that attending the two-day workshop is a big commitment of time, effort, and money and we intend to return more value to you than it cost to be there. But the workshop packs a lot into two days and we wonder if you were able to apply as much of the information as you’d hoped, once you got home.If you are looking for some suggested places to start or are ready to have another go, here are some suggested questions to ask yourself:Do I have a…