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Weekly kill: Rain continues to plague processing operations, with more to come

WEATHER challenges continue to plague beef processing operations across large parts of eastern Australian this week.

Flooding across parts of NSW and Victoria after torrential unseasonal rain (see today’s separate report) have caused widespread delays and cancellations, both in the ability to muster drenched and waterlogged paddocks, and getting stock off-property to plants further east.

One example quoted to Beef Central this morning involved a consignment of three B-doubles (totalling 180 head) out of western NSW, with the first truck getting through, but truck two getting bogged….

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