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Australia’s NVD Leads the Major Beef Export Countries in Animal Health Trace-back but RFID NLIS is an ...

Australian Beef Association Chairman, Brad Bellinger has released an independent audit of cattle producer NLIS Database accounts. The Agribusiness Online Report illustrates that NLIS still relies ...

Final Report on the Efficacy of RFID-NLIS Phase 1

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Australia is ignoring the Northern Flood disaster. Federal Government must Give HOPE to Producers in ...

ABA Chairman Brad Bellinger said today, The extent of the devastating floods in Queensland's Gulf Region in January this year is only now becoming more obvious with family owned properties being able ...

NFF and Cattle Council Rewarded by Government with Copenhagen Junket

Australian Beef Association, Chairman, Brad Bellinger says that his members are yet again disgusted with the National Farmers Federation (NFF) and Cattle Council of Australia (CCA). This time it is their ...

Beef levy must fall – It is a reward for failure

ABA Chairman Brad Bellinger said today, The $5.00 per head Beef Transaction Levy should be reduced to $1. He said the current levy rewarded Meat and Livestock Australia for failure. He said that Australian ...

Bill Bray and MLA Levy Review Committee Lose the Plot

ABA Chairman, Brad Bellinger said, The claims quoted in the Weekly Times 13th May 2009, by former Cattle Council Chairman and member of the MLA Levy Review Committee, Bill Bray were both absurd and irresponsible. Mr ...

Cattle Council Thirty Years of Adding Production Costs with Diminishing Cattle Prices is Nothing to ...

ABA Chairman Brad Bellinger said today, The launch of the Cattle Council's Year Book to celebrate their thirty years in existence, leaves thinking producers wondering in that time what Cattle Council ...

ABA calls on PM Rudd to replace Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke

ABA Chairman, Brad Bellinger has called on the Prime Minister to replace Agriculture Minister, Tony Burke. Mr Bellinger said, ABA had hoped that a fresh face in the Agricultural portfolio would bring ...

Letter by Brad Bellinger

May 2009 Dear Sir, The rise in the beef levy from $3.50 to $5.00 has not resulted in increased farm gate prices or increased domestic or export beef sales. In fact the independent consultant's ...

Bush rising against City- Centric Government Persecution

ABA Chairman Brad Bellinger today warned both State and Federal Government Ministers that Rural Australia is on the brink of open rebellion. He said that Government Policy was sinking Australia's ...

Letter to Members and Beef Producers from ABA President, Brad Bellinger, March 2008

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ACCC Submissions by ABA on the market power of supermarkets and beef pricing

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The Australian Beef Association is a national, representative body, focused on improving profitability for the beef industry by giving control and ownership of industry projects and policy back to members.