THERE’S been a noticeable surge in slaughter cattle supply this week, via both direct consignment and saleyards channels, as country across eastern Australia starts to dry out after late January rain.
There appears to be a number of influences in play driving producer decisions to sell:
- There’s clearly been some residual build-up of slaughter ready stock due to challenging delivery conditions in the back half of January, that slowed business over the past fortnight. Those cattle are now coming to market
- Some market watchers told Beef Central this morning that they had the sense that…
