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New Lamb Marketing Opportunities, Tim Marshall
New Lamb Marketing Opportunities, Tim Marshall
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The changes to the future operations of the Western Australian Meat Marketing Corporation will provide increased opportunities for prime lamb producers.
In summary, these changes are the removal of acquisition from the domestic market while retaining it for lambs destined for export, and the establishment of the Corporation as a single desk seller on the export market.
This should result in increased domestic consumption of lamb, less reliance on lower priced export markets, a change in the type of lamb produced, and a reduction of imports of lamb from the Eastern States.
Holding Our Edge In Noodle Wheat, Graham Crosbie
Holding Our Edge In Noodle Wheat, Graham Crosbie
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
For many years, the Japanese milling and noodle industries have regarded Australian Standard White (ASW) wheat from Western Australia as the best in the world for the manufacture of white, salted Japanese noodles known as 'udon' (pronounced oo-don).
Recently, the Australian Wheat Board has also developed a significant market for this wheat type in South Korea, where it has been readily accepted for the production of Korean dried noodles.
The Wheat Board has estimated the total market demand from Japan and South Korea for this type of wheat to be 1.0-1.2 million tonnes, equivalent to about 20-25 per cent of …