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Traditional cattle ‘traders’ returning to the market, as prices soften

THERE’S been evidence of cattle traders or ‘dealers’ returning to the market over the past month or two, as the intense heat starts to come off prices for many store stock descriptions.

Traders across Eastern Australian have largely gone absent over the past two or three years, as young cattle and breeding cattle prices sky-rocketed during herd rebuilding.

Restockers with a paddock full of green feed were determined to purchase ‘anything on four feet’ over the past two years, sometimes at astronomical prices, scaring the traditional cattle traders into hibernation.

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