AUSTRALIAN BEEF OUTPUT DECLINES IN JANUARY

  Australian beef output declined to
  104,353 tonnes carcass weight in January from 112,262 in
  December and 105,715 a year earlier, the Statistics Bureau
  said.
      This followed a decline in the cattle slaughter to 472,900
  head from 509,500 in December and 478,800 in January 1986, the
  bureau said.
      But cumulative beef output for the first seven months of
  fiscal 1986/87 ending June 30 rose to 838,416 tonnes from
  746,837 a year earlier following a rise in cattle slaughter to
  3.84 mln head from 3.40 mln.
  

