There’s been further rises in Queensland export processors’ slaughter grid offers this week – driven in no small part by intense competition for local slaughter cattle from southern Australian processors who are being starved of cattle at home.
Two prominent cattle buyers suggested that five or six southern processor buyers (including Bindaree) operating at the weekly Dalby sale last week accounted for around 80pc of the slaughter cattle offered in the sale, once bulls were excluded.
And that came despite very low throughput in Victoria last week, with consecutive Public Holidays on…
