IT IS INTERESTING to look back at 2004 now that statistics have been released both from an ALFA Survey and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The December quarter feedlot survey results are included in this journal, which shows that Australian feedlots turned off record numbers exceeding 2.24 million head. 2004 also was a year where record numbers of cattle were on feed (nearly 759,000 in September) with capacity speeding past 950,000 head in the same quarter (979,000 in September).
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