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Cattle in pens at a saleyard.

A graph showing a spike in the price of young cattle.

An older man with dark hair leans on a haybale.

"Hopefully that is nearly finished now and we have seen the worst of it."
A monstrous stormfront surges over a paddock in the outback.

Cattle in a pen on a sunny day.

"But now, a good drop of rain — we'll see what now to Christmas brings us."
A menacing storm cloud issues a thunderbolt into a paddock.

"The worst-case scenario is prices will steady out where they are — best case is they will continue to rise."

Key stories of the day for Australian primary producers, delivered each weekday afternoon.