Beef kill falls 36 p.c.
PA Wellington The beef kill has fallen 36 per cent in the last year, but the drop is expected to ease as dairy cattle are killed later in the year. Provisional figures issued by the Meat Board show that the total adult cattle kill, excluding bobby calves, fell 36.8 per cent to the year ended March 31, from 869,092 in 1983 to 549,354 in 1984.
The heifer kill dropped 54,5 per cent, from 74,000 in 1983 to 34,000 in 1984, and the cow kill fell 31 per cent from 304,000 in 1983 to 210,000 in 1984. The senior economist in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Ken Armstrong, predicted that dairy cattle due to be killed later this year could lift the kill numbers so that the over-all drop would be about 20 per cent. Mr Armstrong said that there was “no question” that total beef exports would fall, because a 35,000-tonne drop in beef and veal production was likely this season.
“The result will be that a greater proportion of exports will fall into manufacturing beef than before, because most of the prime beef exports come from the beef herd,” he said.
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