Struggling farmer sells ten cows for $100 each for supermarkets to offload it for TEN times the cost

A struggling farmer has lashed out at the major supermarkets after learning her cattle were being resold for ten times the amount they were bought off her for. 

Wendy Pickette took ten of her cows to Dubbo saleyards in central New South Wales in the hopes she would sell them for money to buy food for 50 young calves.

‘They certainly weren’t skinny cattle and we only got $97 per head for them, and they should’ve been worth more,’ Mrs Pickette told Daily Mail Australia.

Wendy Pickette took ten of her cows to Dubbo saleyards in central New South Wales in the hopes she would sell them for money to buy food for 50 young calves

The cattle were in ‘poor to reasonable condition’, weighing an average of 405 kilograms each.

‘A few years ago we probably would’ve got between $600 and $800 for them, and now we got $97,’ the farmer said.

Mrs Pickette was devastated to find that the market report said the lowest price paid at the sale was 40c per kilo, because she was only paid 27.2c.

‘It’s a terribly low price because the cattle weren’t terribly poor or skinny or anything,’ Mrs Pickette said.

The farmer and her husband had to sell the cows because they need money to buy food to feed 50 calves aged between one and ten months old.

The couple are desperate to buy food as their drought-stricken farm has little to no grass on it to sustain the cattle.

‘We’ve run out of feed here, we’ve got no grass or anything. We’ve sold all our cows now and the bull and we’re feeding 50 calves in the yards,’ Mrs Pickette said.  

‘We’re feeding them everyday, we’re running out of money, running out of feed, we can’t keep feeding them all the time. 

 The cattle were in ‘poor to reasonable condition’, weighing an average of 405 kilograms each

The farmer and her husband had to sell the cows because they need money to buy food to feed 50 calves between one and ten months old (pictured)

‘We’re hoping we’ll get some rain and we can put some oats in so we can fatten these calves and sell them later on in the winter time.’ 

Mrs Pickette says the conditions of the state-wide drought over the last year have caused things to be tough for her and her husband.

‘We haven’t got the income coming in that we have in a normal year, because of the drought,’ she said.

‘In a normal year you would have plenty of feed out in the paddocks and they’d be just eating the grass.’ 

The struggling farmer penned an emotional letter to the editor of the Coonabarabran Times titled ‘Where is the justice?’. 

The struggling farmer penned an emotional letter to the editor of the Coonabarabran Times titled ‘Where is the justice?’

‘If each cow yielded 100kgs of meat, minced, at $10/kg, that gives a value of $1000 per cow, after we were paid $97,’ the letter read.

‘Where is the justice in that?’ 

A picture of her letter on Facebook has gained widespread attention, with more than 17,000 shares in just three days.

Mrs Pickette said she had no idea the letter would gain all this attention, but wrote it because she was upset at the time.  

‘I just think that people in the city are still paying a lot of money for their meat and they think we’re getting plenty of money out of it but we’re not,’ she said.

‘I thought this is a good opportunity to let people know that there’s a lot of money going somewhere that we’re not getting.’

Mrs Pickette says the conditions of the state-wide drought over the last year have caused things to be tough for her and her husband