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Western Australia's cattle industry has largely backed a state-wide regulated approach to managing bovine Johne's disease (C-strain), with 90 per cent of submissions favouring regulation. Most submissions also wanted enhanced import conditions to keep the WA herd free of the strain.
Tighter import and disease controls affect cattle movement and herd management costs in Australia, but the direct effect on feed or commodity prices is minor.
countryman.com.auBob GarnantJan 6, 2021After 69 past neutral disease events, Live Cattle moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (42% higher; middle half -0.8% to +0.6%), and +0.9% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
