WEATHER continues to play a part in slaughter cattle livestock access in Queensland and northern NSW this week, as it has for most of the first couple of months of the new year.
Processors report further localised disruptions in getting cattle to plants, largely caused by small top-up storm rainfall after earlier instalments. Having said that, some parts of Southeast Queensland have received up to 100mm in big falls since the weekend.
That hasn’t let country that received bigger falls earlier start to dry out, and its shortened-up rosters for some large export plants heading into March….
