Meat processors around the country are struggling with sky-high input costs especially with respect to energy and increase to production costs. Add the pressures of a strong Australian dollar, competition from lower-cost producers overseas and flooding the market, and an unstable political environment, and you’re headed for disaster.
Abattoirs at Cobram and Gunbower in Victoria; Cootamundra, Deniliquin and Goulburn in NSW; Ipswich, Queensland; Esperance, Western Australia; and Longford, Tasmania have all become recent casualties as a result.