date:Aug 25, 2014
Throughout 2010-11 and 2011-12, excellent grazing conditions in Australia saw two years of a declining turn-off and a growing national herd.
Subsequently, stocking rates in northern Australia between 2009-10 and 2011-12 were the highest in the 20 years up to 2009-10.
However, according to ABARES Australian beef: financial performance of beef cattle producing farms, 2011-12 to 2013-14, after the beef cattle herd (excluding dairy) reached 26.5 million head in June 2013, the failed northern wet s