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Australia’s cattle herd to be even smaller than expected

02/05/2019
Australia’s cattle herd has suffered its largest drop in decades due to drought conditions in many production areas and severe flooding in north-west Queensland, according to promotions agency Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).

In the April update to its cattle industry projections, the organisation said the national herd is expected to decline 7.7% to 25.2 million head in the year to June 2019. This compares to the 26.2 million head MLA said in January it was expecting. 

MLA’s market intelligence manager, Scott Tolmie, also revealed that projections for adult slaughter in 2019 has been revised slightly higher. It is expected to be around 7.7 million head. He explained that this is due to “harsher-than-expected” conditions in the first quarter. 

According to MLA data, Australia’s adult cattle slaughter stood at 1.28 million head in the first two months of the year, 11% higher than the same period in 2018 and the highest opening kill recorded in the country since 2015. 

Slaughter is expected to slow in the second half of the year due to a smaller pool of available slaughter cattle. 

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