CATTLE purchased in April at prices of $3.80/kg liveweight are still being loaded onto livestock vessels for Indonesia in northern ports, but increasingly the market for export feeder steers has slipped further into the $3.55 to $3.70 range, trade sources have told Beef Central this week.
Live export cattle yarded at Berrimah in the NT. Picture: NTLEA
Vendors with good quality steers in large volumes are asking for prices around $3.70/kg, but there are also reports of smaller consignments being sold around the $3.55-$3.65/kg range.
Prices traditionally fall at this time of year as…
