DIRECT consignment slaughter cattle prices continued their recent downwards trend this week, with some Queensland offers on export weight steers and cows down another 20-40c/kg, as supply outstrips demand.
The upcoming succession of short processing weeks, with Easter followed soon after by May Day and ANZAC Day, mean some Queensland processors will lose four and even five days’ kill out of a seven-week window.
A national Telstra mobile and internet outage this morning (see details below) made data collection difficult for today’s report, but here’s what we’ve been able to…
