Industry will struggle to absorb numbers is live sheep trade phased-out

Kristen Frost
December 4 2018 - 2:30pm
Simon Hill has been pushing hard to get the industry to ship his wethers across country, with prices in the east $7.50 per kilogram.
Simon Hill has been pushing hard to get the industry to ship his wethers across country, with prices in the east $7.50 per kilogram.

It may be only a matter of time before sheep producers face the end of the live sheep trade, with a proposed phase-out period of five years. 

Kristen Frost

Kristen Frost

National Sheep and Wool Writer

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