FINAL cattle export figures for May 2023 have been confirmed by the Department of Agriculture following a couple of false-starts earlier this month.
Earlier versions of official livestock export data for May 2023 released by DAFF initially suggested Australia exported 49,998 cattle for the month.
When Beef Central raised questions about that figure, suggesting it appeared to be short by about 10,000 head which were exported from Darwin in the final week of the month, a revised report was posted by DAFF to its website a few days later.
However, that…