China closing in on US as our second biggest export beef market

Vernon Graham
Updated August 6 2019 - 1:44pm, first published June 10 2019 - 12:00pm
PROTEIN SHORTAGES: Shoppers in Hong Kong snap up dwindling supplies of pork caused by a severe outbreak of African swine fever in China and surrounding countries.
PROTEIN SHORTAGES: Shoppers in Hong Kong snap up dwindling supplies of pork caused by a severe outbreak of African swine fever in China and surrounding countries.

China is now challenging the United States as our second biggest beef export market as Australia's cattle slaughter rate hits a four-year high.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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