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Crippling rural debt looms as biggest threat to our beef producers

  • Written by Mark McGovern, Senior Lecturer, QUT Business School, Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
imageQueensland beef producers are struggling.Flickr/Aardvark Ethel

What will happen now that the rains have come to many parched beef lands of Queensland? Current high cattle prices and renewed pastures suggest optimism, even good times. Perhaps record exports from the world’s largest beef exporter? If only if was that simple.

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