Cattle slaughter up by 64,000 head in the first half of the year

Cattle slaughter in June rose for the sixth consecutive month year-on-year, totaling 1.22 million head in the first half of the year, about 64,000 more (+5.5%) than in the same period in 2024. It was the third highest first-half slaughter in history, only behind the record levels of 2022 and 2021.