THE accumulated impact of wet weather, labour challenges in processing, and general cattle shortage due to herd rebuilding after the 2019-20 drought will deliver a 2022 Australian adult cattle slaughter tally that will be the lowest in at least 37 years.
It comes on top of a historically-low cattle slaughter figure last year of 6.018 million head, but with just two weeks of operations remaining in 2022, the current year will fall well short of that.
This year’s annual kill performance will be the lowest recorded, in head-count terms, since back-to-back years of 1984 and 1985, when…
