Brazil’s cattle slaughter rates fell by 6.6% in 2008 compared to the year before.Last year a total of 28.6 million cattle went to slaughter with April the only month in which the 2008 figure was higher than the year before. There were especially steep drops in March (16.1%), November (14.8%) and December (10%). The sharpest drop of all was in the...

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