The Observer – Carbon: Creating a New Paradigm in Pricing
International treaties, the first signed at the Rio Earth Summit 1992, and policy drivers such as the COP/MOP meetings, have driven the establishment of global…
The Observer – Exports to China Back in Full Swing
Following the Chinese Ministry of Commence’s announcement on the 4th August 2023 that the PRC was removing all tariffs on Australian barley; export trade of…
The Observer – Canal Chaos or Calm – Suez and Panama Operations Impacted By Conflict and Drought
With Red Sea Commercial shipping attacks by Houthi rebels in mid December threatening access to the Suez Canal and drought in Panama Canal limiting shipping…
The Observer – Mexico – Australia’s Largest Malt Barley Market
The Mexican brewing market has had an incredible period of growth in recent years and is now the fourth largest beer producer in the world.…
The Observer – Malteries Soufflet Closes the UMG Deal and Becomes the World’s Largest Maltster
The Australian Stock exchange were advised that the acquisition of all ordinary shares in the Australian malting group, United Malt Group (UMG), by Malteries Soufflet…
The Observer – Grains Industry Tops Australian Agriculture
The latest Rural Bank’s Australian Agricultural Exports report illustrates the sector’s export value reached a record A$80 billion in 2022/23, almost 50% above the 5-year…
The Observer – Australian Greenhouse Emissions and Agriculture’s Contribution
The Australian government’s Department of Climate change, Energy, the Environment and Water released its quarterly update of the nation’s greenhouse gas inventory for March 2023…
The Observer – Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework
With a heightened consumer focus on environmental, sustainable and governance (ESG) supply chain topics and an increasingly complex array of accreditation systems available to agriculture,…
The Observer – Chinese Australian Barley Trade – Who Suffered?
When the world’s largest barley importer (China) applied punitive tariffs to the world’s largest barley exporter (Australia) in May 2020, economically sensible global trade flows…
The Observer: The A-UKFTA is now active – What are the opportunities?
The Australian UK Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) came into force 31st May 2023 and will eliminate tariffs on over 99 per cent of Australian goods…