NZ has no predators and the South island is almost empty, the sheep just free roam massive grasslands with the odd fence separating different ranches. There is green grass available all year round because of the maritime climate.
Aus is similar in that it has insane amounts of free land for ranching but it suffers from draughts so they have a more industrialised process with slightly more overhead costs with feed lots during summer. But because they can farm so much land their feed costs are insanely low.
NZ has no predators and the South island is almost empty, the sheep just free roam massive grasslands with the odd fence separating different ranches. There is green grass available all year round because of the maritime climate.
Aus is similar in that it has insane amounts of free land for ranching but it suffers from draughts so they have a more industrialised process with slightly more overhead costs with feed lots during summer. But because they can farm so much land their feed costs are insanely low.
Even if the Kiwis costs for raising cattle were free, it still makes no economic or logistical sense to be dumping their beef into Leaf supermarkets.
Ground beef is one of the few things that Canucks should be self-sufficient.
We have access to every natural resource you can imagine;
Beef, grain, pork, poultry, potatoes, vegetables, fish, fresh water, oil, LNG, lumber, copper, zinc, gold, hydro-electricity, etc, etc
The only reason we aren't living like Saudis, let alone self-sufficient, is terrible governance.