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Weekly kill: Direct consignment price slide takes a breather, but oversupply hasn’t gone away

AFTER almost two months of continuous weekly downwards price movements, most direct-to works slaughter cattle price offers across eastern Australia are unchanged this week.

A ring-around of major processors this morning found southern Queensland operators offering 375-380c/kg on heavy cows and four-tooth grass heavy ox at 435-450/kg, the same as Tuesday last week.

Rates in Central Queensland are typically 10c behind those figures, and North Queensland 25c.

In southern states, offers are also unchanged this morning, with offers of 310c/kg for heavy cows and 405c on grass ox in southern…

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