Sheep farmers in Drought ravaged Southern Australia are suffering another kick in the guts.
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“THE Australian Mercantile services Association (AMSA) has stalled the Australian live export sheep boat trade, leaving up to 70,000 sheep destined for the Middle East in farmer’s hands.
An agent who wished to remain unidentified said the delay has been crippling for farmers in northern Victoria and the Riverina who have been forced to keep on feeding sheep that should have been on the boats.”
Farmers have had these sheep in hand for over a month waiting for this mess to be sorted out. For those of you that don’t know boat sheep have to be above a certain body weight to be accepted, if they are underweight they are rejected.
Farmers sign enforceable delivery contracts with the live exporters. These 70,000 sheep would be being hand fed by drought ravaged farmers to keep their body weight up to the delivery threshold. After almost a month of waiting and no end in sight these farmers would be losing money hand over fist.
Poor buggers.
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Tags: Boat Sheep, Farmers, Farming, Riverina, sheep, Sheep Live Export, Vic
Poor buggers the farmers or the poor flaming sheep that are so badly treated by these whinging mean, and hungry farmers.