Should the US hit Australian beef with a tariff of any amount added to Labor’s bovine carbon tax it could be curtains for the beef industry
From Beef Central
By Eric Barker
IT IS not every day you ring someone in the beef industry and tell them they are about to incur a new million-dollar administrative cost they know nothing about.
But that has been my experience this week as I have been calling agribusiness owners along the beef supply chain who meet the thresholds of the Government’s new mandatory emissions-reporting laws. Six cattle producers were called, they all met the criteria, or had plans to grow that big in the coming years but had never heard of it.
Emissions reporting is no longer an idea, it is now a law that was waved through last year by Labor, the Greens and ‘Teal’ independents who made little effort to consult with an industry that was going to bear the brunt of its new administrative burden.
While little has been spoken about the laws within the industry, the Red Meat Advisory Council made a submission to Treasury raising concerns about producers who were indirectly impacted by the laws – as the ‘Scope 3’ requirement for processors and supply chains who fit criteria is likely to mean producers are submitting their carbon footprint when they sell their cattle.
But as lotfeeder Barb Madden from Smithfield Cattle Co recently highlighted, the laws will go beyond the indirect impact of Scope 3 reporting and directly impact businesses like Smithfield.
Inquiries this week have found the legislation is likely to extend to businesses a lot smaller than Smithfield, whether or not they are making a profit.
Federal Treasury is claiming that only 1800 businesses across the entire Australian economy (not just agriculture) will be directly covered by the laws – a claim one Beef Central reader said was dubious at best. The Agriculture department doubled down on that claim in the last month, but could not give any estimate of how many farm businesses it covered.
Modelling from the treasury has estimated the inital cost will be $1m to $1.3m, then ongoing costs of $500,000 to $700,000.
The laws are set to be phased in over the next three years and by 2027 they will cover companies who meet two of three criteria: Having a consolidated revenue (turnover) of $50m or more; assets of $25m or more; and 100 employees or more.
Feedlots and traders the most likely to be impacted
Feedlots, large backgrounders and other traders turning over lots of cattle are the most likely to hit the three criteria. The $25m asset value does not account for debt and the $50m turnover does not account for profit.
Some examples of producers who are hovering around the base of the threshold include:
- Bill Speed who has several properties in North and Central Queensland, a 5000 head feedlot and 3000 head on feed in custom feeding arrangements with other feedlots
- John Rogers who has 10 properties across Queensland, between the Winton and Taroom areas and a 5000 head feedlot
- A southern grassfed trader who asked not to be named, who turns over 25,000-30,000 predominantly Angus and some Wagyu cattle.
Rough calculations suggest an 8000 head feedlot, turning over 100-day cattle, would be hitting roughly $50m turnover depending on the market. It is also likely to be worth more than $25m, depending on its land holding.
While it is unknown exactly how many feedlot businesses are this big, as a reference, Beef Central’s Top 25 Lotfeeders list in 2023 covered 43 separate feedyards, the smallest of which was 16,000 head. Beef Central estimates at least 60 Australian feedlots would be larger than 8000 head.
Growth is another factor as there is clearly growing investment into feedlots and more intensive trading businesses – with Australia’s cattle on feed survey breaking records last year with 1.45 million.
Another cattle producer told Beef Central his business did not meet the threshold now, but he had a feedlot under construction and he would likely meet it by 2027.
Service industries also impacted
Beef Central also inquired with other service industries to see if they would hit the reporting thresholds.
Outside Elders and Nutrien, medium sized rural merchandisers come into the fold as they are businesses with high turnover and have a large staff.
A large transport company said it hit the asset value and employee thresholds, however, it was only the big players that fell into the category
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/03/15/red-meat-industry-threatened-by-trump-tariffs/
God, please protect our farmers and expose and get rid of these traitorous saboteurs!
I don’t think anybody has asked how these morons are going to measure how much CO2 is emitted from each animal. I am pretty certain calves would not be as guilty as full grown cattle. Can’t tax the animals before they are butchered as many may not get to that stage. Snake bite or floods and the politicians wouldn’t want to cheat the system would they? Ho! Ho!
Olmac said – “… Albozo must be sleeping with Gates (can I say that ?)…”
Dude, you sure can say that, because it’s TRUE and everybody KNOWS it.
Why do you think AnAL signed the prenup handing Australia over to creepy Bill when they had their overnight gay-bar love-fest in that big four-poster bed down there at Kirribilli House? And haven’t you noticed AnAL’s rosy cheeks? Creepy Bill sure did, from the OTHER end!
And now AnAL is carrying creepy Bill’s love-child and he can’t wait to quit politics and get his big fat Genocide Bonus and spend the rest of his deliriously blissful days waking up every morning in creepy Bill’s big hunky billionaire arms, sucking on Bill’s man-boobs and eating the finest filet mignon sauteed in fresh baby blood all smothered in the finest imported caviar and finished off with a bottle or two of Champagne Avenue Foch – for breakfast. Every morning. Forever.
And let’s be honest, folks, who WOULDN’T kill Australia and all its Useless Eaters for THAT?
Folks – this is how they will mandate the use of Bill Gates – Bovaer – such a sick additive – betya they will say we can reduce the tax if you use it !! taking odds now of 100:1 that it is announced
Albozo must be sleeping with Gates (can I say that ?)
fullytranquilb75c091d8d said – “… The Unaparty all have to be removed…”
You know, you’re absolutely right, indisputably 100% correct.
But if you’re of the same mindset as so many other people, you actually believe that writing some numbers on a piece of paper will accomplish what you say.
Forgive the coarseness of the metaphor, but that’s akin to pushing a dog-shit casserole aside to feast instead on a monkey-turd pie. And then when you tire of that, going back tothe dog-shit casserole again.
None of it has been removed, all of that foreign-prepared genocidal poison is still sitting right there on your dining room table. and you’re still slurping it down like a matrimonial obligation.
Sorry, Dude, but when we say that they have to be removed, they REALLY have to be REMOVED. And that means nothing short of PHYSICALLY dragging these EVERY LAST ONE of these Treasonous baby-eating mass-murdering bastards out into the street and removing them from our country FOREVER.
My personal preference is to string them all up to lamp posts, but that’s just my own little fantasy because I’m old-school and take my cues from historical precedents, albeit conditioned on everything being done all nice and legal-like and only in the best POSSIBLE taste. There are undoubtedly other alternatives, like set them all loose in a leaking dinghy somewhere in the Southern Ocean or shove them all into a big fat rocket and shoot them into the Sun.
Whatever, just get them OUT of our country PERMANENTLY, and that means FOREVER.
Hopefully after another eight years of this rolling democidal Globalist BS, we’ll have finally wised up enough to make the hard decisions and get the job done.
See you there if you manage to survive that long.
The output of all cows ought to be dumped at the end of that $70 million road.
What is the National Party doing about this outrage? The Unaparty all have to be removed.
Joe Bogan said – “… I am eating beef as fast as I can before it disappears and I have to change to mutton…”
You make a good point, Joe, in fact it would probably be a sensible move to invest in a couple of big freezers and stock up on all your favourite beef cuts while you still can. At least, for those among us who can afford it.
And I wouldn’t be getting too complacent about the mutton, it goes without saying that the sheep and pigs and goats and, God forbid, horses and cats and dogs are on the hitlist too. And turkeys and ducks and quails and pigeons and rabbits too.
And just as an aside, folks, but still dead on-topic, they’re still gunning for your fruit trees and vege gardens too. The shit-for-brains hired mercenaries will be kicking down your door and shooting you and your dog and napalming your back yard soon enough.
And they’ll be up to no-good tricks like midnight drone-spraying and chem-trailing everyone’s veges with all sorts of pathogens and poisons to justify the vege garden holocaust. And they’ll get your chooks while they’re at it.
And all part of the same sold-out Treasonous anti-Australian anti-Human democidal program, folks, all in global lockstep, look around the world if you’re not clear on this, we’re being deluged with over a MILLION Third World immigrants every year now here in Australia. Do the maths, folks, how long until ALL varieties and denominations of Australians are the minority here in what we thought was our own country? And that’s final, we won’t be coming back from that EVER.
And these bastards are not going to stop, folks, they’ve got their marching orders from their Luciferian masters and they’re just going to roll on full steam ahead because there’s nothing to stop them, nothing in the world apart from adorably naive people writing numbers in boxes on bits of paper, which of course amounts to absolutely nothing at all. All those patriotic Australians write in pencil, they write in pen, why the Hell not just use the biggest fattest magic marker you can find, maybe that’ll make a difference? And our foreign-owned executioners just shit in our faces and laugh at us while they keep on keeping on with the long drawn-out uninterrupted task of dismantling our country and exterminating us.
Can you see, folks, are you starting to understand why the final solution to this rolling mountain of unfettered genocidal Globalist BS will require kinetic intervention to physically remove these mongrel bastards from our country? And the simplest and most efficient and emphatically righteous method of accomplishing exactly that will involve lots of good sturdy ropes and lamp posts.
The clock is ticking and the gears are turning, folks, but progress is tediously slow in the gestation of bona-fide revolutions. Chef’s parents might say about three fiddy, but the Fat Lady says eight more years. Make sure to last that long.
Labour is literally taxing cow farts!
They’ve gone completely insane and have forfeited their right to lead.
The farmers are in double trouble now Mein Trumpf is putting his tariff on them.
I am eating beef as fast as I can before it disappears and I have to change to mutton. Why do people believe this shit about ClimateChange, or is it just the idiots on TV and Green-Teal voters ???
We have been down this track many times with you and we know his excellent track record of achievements which far exceed your claim. Most of us have known him for more than 35 years and his electoral record speaks for itself. Never lost an election in 50 years, an Australian record.
That’s good enough for us. Ask the Chinese. He, single handed stopped their advance on Cape York twice. Could you tell us of Cairns MLA Warren Entsch’s track record? He’s been there 30 years.Editor
Taxing everyone into oblivion!
I think the best tax would be to race every politician a carbon tax for every time they lie.
Then we could also tax every politician a treason tax for every time they commit and act of treason and we could double our fortunes by charging them an incompetence tax for every act of incompetence.
They all do all that so much that
We would be able to pay off the national debt within a couple of weeks!
A global HOLODOMOR (murder by famine) in the making!
What with gene wrecking injections administered on a global scale, global famine on a global scale, global depression and bankruptcy to the global Money Merchants, and a global WW3 in the making, our future is more secure than ever.
But we will be happy. Unless we run out of our tolerance of treachery and our own stupidity.
Trump is in a panic because they destroyed too many chickens. Eggs come from chickens. Duh.
There is a shortage of eggs.
Trump goes begging to Europe in order to buy eggs because the current price is affecting his popularity.
One remedy is, buy more chickens. Duh
We will be in the same position with beef.
Bob Katter a voice of the Establishment has to go.
A farmer who is an MP subsidising his farm?
Katter state politics 1974-1992
House of Rep’s 1993- Now
Lets say 30+ years.
He ought to have achieved one memorable deed per year.
That is over 30 memorable deeds.
Name five.
Is there any way that we can have 97% of politician from all over Australia certified as insane? The science proves that CO2 has nothing to do with affecting the climate, yet because a few nut cases have stated as fact, a lie, politicians jump on it to legislate the end of a food supply.
In answer to Doreen, “may God help us”, don’t expect any help from that direction. He has had thousands of years supposedly, to help mankind. In my eighty years I have seen no help, only permitting the evil ones amongst us to get their way.
Pat from Vic says –
Eric Barker said -“… it is now a law that was waved through last year by Labor, the Greens and ‘Teal’ independents…”
Anyone noticing a pattern here?
“Laws” rammed through with neither consultation nor consent of the Australian people, let alone anyone even being aware of it. And huge armies of shit-for-brains gun-toting hired mercenary thugs and Treasonous unelected beauracrats entrenched across every Australian state and territory to enforce it……..”
If I understand the “Editor” correctly it is all the doing of of “Communist” China. How, I haven’t a clue.
Re: “Australia is under hostile foreign occupation, our fake corporate “government” is an IMPOSED DICTATORSHIP, and they’re systematically, ruthlessly and meticulously destroying our country. Can you feel the love, folks? Can you FEEL it?”
Sure I can feel it, they wouldn’t be fking us with such enthusiasm if they didn’t luv us, right?
Eric Barker said -“… it is now a law that was waved through last year by Labor, the Greens and ‘Teal’ independents…”
Anyone noticing a pattern here?
“Laws” rammed through with neither consultation nor consent of the Australian people, let alone anyone even being aware of it. And huge armies of shit-for-brains gun-toting hired mercenary thugs and Treasonous unelected beauracrats entrenched across every Australian state and territory to enforce it.
Want some tough love, folks? Want to hear an inconvenient truth?
Australia is under hostile foreign occupation, our fake corporate “government” is an IMPOSED DICTATORSHIP, and they’re systematically, ruthlessly and meticulously destroying our country.
Can you feel the love, folks? Can you FEEL it?
They’re still killing all the chooks, folks, they haven’t stopped because all the chickens aren’t dead yet – but they will be soon enough. Ditto the bees and anything else they can send their remorseless arsehole officials out on the road to kill.
Wake up and face up to it, folks, this won’t stop unless and until we AMPUTATE these mass-murdering baby-eating Luciferian mongrels off of our backs and out of our country FOREVER. Or until Australia is nothing but a smoldering deserted wasteland and every Australian is dead, which is very much on the cards judging by our present trajectory.
Your choice, folks, OUR choice.
Call me a pessimist, but Martin Armstrong’s forecast of YEARS more of this rolling mountain of democidal nation-destroying Globalist BS is sure looking to be right on track. Eight more years in fact.
That would be when the Fat Lady finally cracks the shits and anyone who has manged to survive that long will have the exquisite and long-overdue pleasure of dragging every last one of these baby-eating bastards out into the streets and stringing them up to lamp posts. Every last one of them, without exception.
Thank you Cairns News for your articles that keep us informed on the evil that is encroaching on our lives . May the Lord God help us as we resist this evil
In Communist Australia …, you cannot eat meat, drive a car, choose your education, worship your God, have an adequate power supply, drink pure water, live in an unradiated environment, have a cash supply, have a proper income, buy a home, choose your medications, pick your doctor, enjoy good health, retire with an adequate financial supply, take annual holidays, speak openly about anything, type on the internet without losing Constitutional freedoms, have an opinion, grow your own vegetables, and raise your own chickens, vote for change, own anything.
BUT you will be happy to have nothing, be nothing, go nowhere, sit in your rented tiny house in a government housing prison, WONDERING … HOW DID THIS HAPPEN ?… I VOTED …WHAT!!! … THIS IS NOT MY FAULT … and on, and on, and on … … … .
Lamb , Chicken, Beef… Our food supplies are being cut and destroyed… Hello! Ground control to Major Tom… We’re being fkd! Hello…. !!!! 🙂
Anybody in Australia still have a functioning brain?
WEF Klaus Schwab – “Eat ze bugz”.