Throughput at plants rises by 6%

Throughput at the country’s meat processing plants has increased by 6% for the first eight months of the year with steers showing the largest volume increase.

The steer kill at the factories to the beginning of September was 41,000 head higher than the same period in 2002 an increase of over 7% following above-normal supplies through July and August.

The weekly steer kill dropped last week for the first time in two months.