POOR seasonal conditions across an ever-expanding footprint of Australian grazing country are only adding to current slaughter cattle congestion, with some Queensland processors now taking direct consignment bookings only from the third week in October onwards.
What’s clearly evident in the north is that those extreme dry hot-spots on the map that existed a month or two ago are now growing rapidly in size, and starting to overlap.
That’s forcing liquidation decisions for more producers, and the arrival of September appears to have been the trigger-point for some.
Adding to this…
