WITH just three weeks of operations remaining before many large export beef processors close for their Christmas/New Year break, slaughter cattle grid prices across the eastern states have softened further this week.
Some competitors in Queensland reduced grids a further 10c/kg on steers and cows yesterday on top of earlier declines, as supply starts to better align with available killing capacity. Others have virtually stopped quoting for the year, confident that they have remaining kill slots more or less covered.
Competitive southern Queensland quotes seen this morning were in a fairly…
