THE sequence of short kill weeks that started on Friday has seen the beef processing industry put the cue in the rack for the timebeing, with no changes to grid offers and only very small numbers of slaughter type cattle offered at significant saleyards so far this week.
On top of school holidays, Easter is a popular time across eastern Australia for horse sports like campdraft (ACA Finals, and others scheduled further south) and rodeo, and it’s left little time for cattle work in the bush, evidently.
Roma sale this morning only offered around 1800 head – half last week’s already…
