Hot beef and sheepmeat prices providing backbone of farm earnings

Vernon Graham
December 11 2019 - 7:38pm
DROUGHT BUFFER: Red hot export demand and prices for Australian beef, lamb and mutton is now the backbone of national farm earnings despite the drought.
DROUGHT BUFFER: Red hot export demand and prices for Australian beef, lamb and mutton is now the backbone of national farm earnings despite the drought.

High beef and sheepmeat prices are providing a buffer against crippling drought with livestock tipped to contribute 53 per cent of forecast total farm production of $61 billion in 2019-20.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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