THE national slaughter statistics for the week ended Friday show last week was the largest adult cattle kill for the year so far, hitting 127,465 head.
Apart from a brief rush later last year due to dry conditions pushing extra cattle to market, it’s the biggest national kill seen since May 2020, when the last of the drought cycle was still driving cattle to market (the drought broke later in northern Australia than southern regions).
Queensland’s kill last week surged to 64,553 head, easily the largest this year, as new weekly shifts at some plants take effect, and other northern…
