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Permit timing may hinge on today’s Indo election result

Signs are pointing to a stronger year for northern feeder cattle exports from Australia to Indonesia in 2024 – but much still relies on the timing of the release of permits following today’s Indonesian elections.

A file image of the Girolando Express docked at Darwin. Pic: NTLEA

Reports of improving demand conditions in Indonesia and declining local herds and meat supplies in the country underpin suggestions that Australia may export more than 400,000 cattle to Indonesia this year, after two successive years in the 300,000 head range.

But the industry is still yet to ship a single…

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