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AACo in $44m cattle writedown

03/05/2013

Australia’s largest beef cattle producer has written down the value of its herd by A$43 million ($44 million) due to dry weather and excess cattle in the market. Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) said prices had been significantly depressed due to the 2011 suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia which meant cattle that would have...

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