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Dr Nigel Brown recently wrote an update of activities for the Middle East MLA/LiveCorp program. Read it below:

Middle east update (Nov 05)

Live export overview

Australia is the largest livestock exporting country in the world, in 2004/05 Australia exported:

• 3.2 million sheep
• 624,000 cattle
• 44,000 goats

The majority of Australian live sheep exports were exported to Middle eastern countries, along with significant cattle numbers.

Under close regulation by the Australian government the specialised livestock carriers have strict requirements on the feed, ventilation, loading densities and care of animals to ensure a quality product.