SOME estimates suggest up to 700,000 cattle headed into southern states out of Queensland for restocking purposes after the 2019-20 drought started to break in southern Australia.
Many of those cattle carried some (in some cases, a lot of) Bos Indicus content – largely foreign to southern beef producers and feedlot operators.
So what happened to those cattle? How have they, and their progeny, been received in the southern states markets?
Beef Central has this week asked a number of NSW supply chain managers, cattle buyers, lotfeeders and others for some answers, and the results may…
