date:Jul 17, 2014
row and is some 18% ahead of the same week last year. So far this year a total of 271,367 steers have been killed up 16% on 2013 at this stage.
Last week saw the lowest heifer kill of the year at 6,908. This is well below the 9,000 mark which has been reached on many occasions this year. In contrast to steers the heifer kill is below the same week last year which was over 7,000.
The cow kill last week was 7,581 head more or less similar to the same week last year. However, cumulatively 197,95