WIDESPREAD winter rain has been creating logistical nightmares for livestock transporters as large consignments of cattle wait in inaccessible paddocks.
As referenced in yesterday’s weekly kill article, trucks were back on the Warrego Highway at the start of this week taking cattle to Southern Queensland feedlots after some warm and dry weather.
However New South Wales was a different story, with widespread rain across the state and flooding in the Namoi River catchment – a prime mixed-farming and backgrounding area. Rain has also come back into Qld over the past 24 hours.
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