Production cuts needed to get beef prices back on track - ICSA

Herd of Blue-gray crossbred steers. White Shorthorn X Galloway.

Declan O'Brien

Significant cuts in domestic beef production to get supply and demand back into equilibrium is the only solution to the current cattle-price crisis, the ICSA has claimed.

The drystock farmers' body maintained that live shipping had to be ramped up to take out tens of thousands of calves that cannot be profitably finished.