Australian cattle exports to Indonesia averaged over 600,000 head per year between 2014 and 2019, before dropping to below 400,000 per year in the four years’ since.
Is this the new level, or is a return to trade volumes above 600,000 head likely again in future?
As the northern cattle industry gears up for the start of the annual dry season mustering rounds, Beef Central posed that question to several experts across the trade.
Their responses were mixed, but the general consensus was that export volumes are likely to return to 600,000 plus in the not-too-distant future – but…