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Slow going for cattle shipments in January

Australian cattle export volumes in January fell to the lowest monthly total totalled in more a decade, with just 24,347 shipped to all markets.

The last time a smaller monthly volume of cattle was shipped from Australia according to Beef Central’s records was March 2012, when 21,333 cattle were exported.

Shipments to Indonesia in January totalled 8336 cattle, the lowest monthly number to that market since September 2016. Of the shipments to Indonesia, 5161 head were shipped from Darwin and 3175 from Fremantle.

Australian exporters also shipped 7589 slaughter and breeder cattle to…

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