# Drought affects supplemental feed supply in Australia | Feed Strategy

> Australian livestock producers face shortages of supplementary feed as drought continues. A Queensland supplier is turning away buyers, and a cattle producer failed to buy molasses directly from Mackay Sugar, which is prioritizing export contracts.

- Date: 2018-09-25 · published 2018-09-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Australia · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/63158-drought-affects-supplemental-feed-supply-in-australia-feed-strategy
- Commodities: [Cottonseed Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CSM.md), [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md)

## Why it matters

Scarce molasses and cottonseed supplies in Australia drive up supplement costs and increase import demand for feed ingredients.

## Read by commodity

- CSM: bullish ▲
- SBM: neutral

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| SBM | 2019-01-14 | [In flooded Argentine field, ducks swim where soy should sprout](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60935-in-flooded-argentine-field-ducks-swim-where-soy-should-sprout.md) | +1.5% | -1.8% |

## Sources

- feedstrategy.com: https://www.feedstrategy.com/animal-nutrition/dairy-cattle/article/15440056/drought-affects-supplemental-feed-supply-in-australia

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