THE latest quarterly statistics on livestock slaughtered and meat production from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have revealed that the female slaughter rate (FSR) for the Australian cattle herd has lifted to 53.1 per cent, which places the industry in a destock phase.

This increase in the FSR comes alongside a 17 per cent lift in cattle slaughter to 2.1 million head for the June quarter, the highest since 2019.