Rain and 35,800 cattle per week squeeze markets

There are some things in life that never change, like the numbers game dictating the price for beef cattle every autumn, with which beef finishers are very familiar.
Rain and 35,800 cattle per week squeeze markets

There are some things in life that never change, like the numbers game dictating the price for beef cattle every autumn, with which beef finishers are very familiar.

When a spell of heavy rainfall is added to the numbers game, you have a perfect recipe for a drop in beef prices, as sure as night follows day, year in and year out.

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