Pimelea poisoning taking toll on cattle producers and breeding herds

By Lucy Ziesemer
Updated May 31 2016 - 5:00pm, first published May 30 2016 - 2:00pm
On edge: Graham Marsh, Dromore, St George, Geoff Freshwater, Overflow, Begonia, Russell Mocker, Surprise, Begonia, and Landmark Roma's Rod Turner, agreed the early effects of Pimelea poisoning for the 2016 winter were of great concern.
On edge: Graham Marsh, Dromore, St George, Geoff Freshwater, Overflow, Begonia, Russell Mocker, Surprise, Begonia, and Landmark Roma's Rod Turner, agreed the early effects of Pimelea poisoning for the 2016 winter were of great concern.

If relentless weather extremes and wavering cattle prices were not enough to push Queensland beef producers to the edge the emerging impact of Pimelea poisoning will surely test their tenacity.

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