Australia-Live cattle to Indonesia.

AUSTRALIA.

LIVE SHIPPING TRADE.

Indonesia will have taken over 600,000 head of live cattle this year, the Northern Territory Cattlemans Association, believe that the market could quite easily handle 1 million cattle per year.

Exports from northern Australia are up over 90,000 head this year from 2007.

Luke Bowen from the association, said "In terms of size there are 220 million people of which 20 million are in the high income bracket, so the fundamentals are there, as long as we have no financial hic-ups, with the global financial crisis".

For the long haul the north looks well positioned and the sale of the Packer Consolidated Pastoral 17 cattle stations, could prove the be the "Buy of the Century", according to cattlemen in the north