Live Cattle Exports Grow by 43%
02/06/2017 Livestock
Bord Bia stats for the year Jan to May 2017 show a total of 116,061 cattle exported compared to 81,100 for the same period in 2016. That a growth of 43%!
Over this 5 months live:-
weanling exports grew from 4718 to 8194 (89.5%)
store exports grew from 4354 to 6912 ( 58.8%)
Calf exports grew for 60,998 to 87714 ( 43.8%)
Finsished exports grew from 11,030 to 12495 (13.3%)
Overall this represents a growth of over 35,000 live cattle year to date.
Netherlands and Spain are the two biggest markets to which these live exports go.
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