ABARES report shows true picture - the squeaky wheel?

According to the ABARES Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS) 2014, of an estimated 1500 farm businesses identified as beef cattle specialists in the northern live cattle export region, only around 180 derived more than half their receipts from live exports in the three years ending 2012–13. Those most reliant on the live export trade were located in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia and the upper western portion of the NT. That is only 180/1500 properties (or 12%).

The report confirms the high level of risk associated with the live export industry and the increasing potential for this cruel trade to be replaced with exports of chilled or frozen meat. It highlights for many export markets there are no religious, cultural or logistical hurdles to accepting meat export.