There was an encouraging rally in Australia’s May beef export volumes, but tonnage remains low against earlier years’ performance
Shipments to all markets last month reached just short of 80,000 tonnes – a dramatic 30pc rise on April shipments – but its worth remembering that April was severely hampered by weather and public holiday abattoir closures.
Another limiting factor has been logistics, container access and port operations challenges around the world.
Last month’s shipments were up 5pc on May last year, but both herd rebuilding and COVID-related processing challenges…
