Record live cattle shipments out after Darwin as Top End drought worsens

Vernon Graham
March 13 2019 - 1:00pm
Dry conditions in the Top End is driving a heavy turn-off of cattle into the live trade out of the port of Darwin. More than 100,000 head have been shipped out since the start of December.
Dry conditions in the Top End is driving a heavy turn-off of cattle into the live trade out of the port of Darwin. More than 100,000 head have been shipped out since the start of December.

More than 100,000 cattle have been exported out of Darwin since the start of December as hopes of big monsoonal rains continue to fade across the parched Top End.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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