King Island and the Atherton Tableland might be thousands of kilometres apart, but that doesn't mean they both can't share the limelight when it comes to producing top-notch steak.

Bureaucratic intrusions, regulations that cause more problems than they solve, momentum undermined - these are a selection of the comments that agricultural industry bodies have greeted the introduction of new Great Barrier Reef protection laws with.

There were 2896 cattle sold at Gracemere on Friday, where the market remained firm.