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WHILE the proportion of female cattle involved in national slaughter has been on the rise as seasonal conditions have worsened across eastern Australia this year, there’s also evidence of dramatic variation from one state to another.
The extent of female kill is typically presented as the Female Slaughter Ratio (FSR) – the percentage of female-to-male adult cattle in each week’s national kill.
A figure of 47pc is frequently quoted as the ‘tipping point’ between herd expansion and contraction, on a national basis.
Long term, the Australian FSR…
