Market Analysis
China protein gap up for grabs
It has been more than two years since African Swine Fever started seriously impacting the Asian pork herd, and it is still rearing its ugly
Jamie-Lee Oldfield
May 11, 2021
It has been more than two years since African Swine Fever started seriously impacting the Asian pork herd, and it is still rearing its ugly
It was a wet old week across much of the country, with many west and east sheep areas enjoying a top-up of rain. Despite this,
This time last year we were bemoaning the decline of lamb export prices to the US, and its impact on heavy lambs. The latest export
Processors continued to work through another week of strong lamb and sheep supply. The positive news is that prices generally stabilised across most categories of
Lamb and sheep slaughter has managed to post consecutive year-on-year increases in monthly levels for the first time since winter 2020. Slaughter was not all
Money for mutton surged higher for the start of April, gaining more than 50¢/kg for the first two weeks of the month, before losing all
Lambs and sheep poured into yards last week in the east, with total throughput at levels rarely seen in April. Supply continued to pressure the
The MLA and AWI Wool and Sheepmeat survey is conducted three times a year, and gives a snapshot of the flock structure, and some ideas
As nice as weeks of extremely tight supply are for price, they don’t last forever. Higher flows of lamb and sheep to the yards has
Despite lagging behind the record highs of 2019/20, lamb exports are showing all the right signs so far in 2021, with continued demand from the
We are into April and as cropping and sowing programs are ramping up, lamb finishing programs are winding down. This time of year generally sees
Short selling weeks tend to generate havoc in livestock markets, especially when it causes already tight supply to get tighter. But while much of the
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