Feedlots near bursting as cattle on feed hits a record 1.14 million head

Vernon Graham
Updated May 20 2019 - 1:59pm, first published May 16 2019 - 2:00pm
FEEDING FRENZY: Numbers of cattle on feed have hit record levels at the end of the March quarter as the impact of droughts and floods continues to bite hard.
FEEDING FRENZY: Numbers of cattle on feed have hit record levels at the end of the March quarter as the impact of droughts and floods continues to bite hard.

Australia's feedlot industry is almost bursting at the seams with cattle on feed hitting a new record of 1.146 million head at the end of the March quarter.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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