Source: DAFF
AUSTRALIAN cattle exports dropped 20 percent in August following Indonesia’s ban on several key export yards in northern Australia.
The ban was imposed in late July and eventually lifted on September 8, after ongoing testing showed no trace of the disease in Australia.
A cattle export ship drawing alongside at the Port of Darwin.
Australian exporters shipped 54,650 cattle in August, of which 24,470 head went to Indonesia, 25 percent below the five-year average for the month.
Small cattle shipments were able to continue between Australia and Indonesia from non-affected…
