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Live sheep trade uncertainty as new markets emerge

    WAFarmers Livestock Council president Geoff Pearson: uncertainty is impacting investment.

UNCERTAINTY around the Federal Government’s proposed live sheep export by sea phaseout timetable is impacting investment just as new sheep and cattle markets are emerging.

Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Murray Watt disappointed Western Australian sheep and live export industry representatives at a short meeting in Perth on Monday, offering no insights into a release date for a phaseout panel report or a timetable for winding the trade down.

WA Livestock Exporters Association vice…

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