date:Aug 05, 2014
ith plans to increase this to three percent.
WA Agriculture Minister Ken Baston, said Australia needs to address productivity to ensure supply can meet demand.
The total cattle in Western Australia of 1.9 million and our sheep numbers are down to about 15.5 million so we have to increase productivity, he said.
Finding markets of course increases demand and productivity is the next thing we need to match.
We used to have a sheep industry here once of some 38 million sheep, we're now down to 1