Bushfires are adding fuel to an already challenging situation for northern cattle producers, destroying large tracts of grass needed to carry healthy cattle with skin markings or blemishes that the region’s primary market of Indonesia will not currently accept.
An Indonesian Government delegation has visited northern Australia to inspect cattle disease testing processes first hand in recent weeks, but it is not yet clear Indonesia’s zero-tolerance approach to accepting northern cattle with skin markings will end as a result of the high-level visit.
Fires have been burning across large…
