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High-stakes wait for northern cattle industry

Australia’s northern cattle export trade to Indonesia remains locked in a high stakes waiting game as testing of cattle in four export yards in WA, NT and Qld plays out this week.

LSD causes swelling of lymph nodes across the animal’s body. Source: AW Coetzer, E Tupparainen, S Babiuk and DB Wallace (2018). Lumpy skin disease. In Infectious Diseases of Livestock.

Tests results should be received by the end of the week but what happens next will rest on how the Indonesian Government responds to whatever the results show.

Australian officials have outlined their belief that the most…

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