Farmers hypocritical for sending cattle east

A beef processor has labelled a group of producers who are sending their cattle east as hypocrites.

Beef farmers in the south-west are trucking their cattle across the Nullarbor in search of a bigger profit, despite transport costs of up to $300 a head.

Rod Russell is the managing director of the Western Meatpacker Group and doubts producers are getting the high profit by selling interstate.