This weeks’ lamb and sheep market was a positive story amidst the disorder. While a number of processing plants in Victoria closed due to COVID-19
Mutton has remained the shining light in the sheep market this month, as the only category trading higher year-on-year. Lamb is still trading at historically
It is a 1.56 billion dollar question because that is (very) roughly how much lamb producers made out of selling lambs for slaughter between August
Processing disruptions appear to have spooked what was already a weaker lamb market. The closure of multiple meat works in Victoria have appeared in the
The Middle Eastern summer live sheep export prohibition period has now kicked in, and will remain in place until mid-September. With total sheep exports dropping
As we saw in the US, there is never a good time for Coronavirus to infiltrate meat works. This is especially true for livestock producers,
The slippery slope that lamb prices were on found a new trajectory this week. While the full loss of recent weeks hasn’t been recouped, very
Mecardo’s Percentiles update for July 2020. Click below to view the latest report Grains and oilseeds Sheep and lambs Cattle Wool Dairy Fuel Percentiles are an
There is the well noted ‘fight for acres’ between sheep and cropping, especially in the sheep/wheat zones of the country. Cropping has been winning for
The disaster zone that was last weeks ovine market, is yet to be contained. We thought last week’s drop may have been enough to bring
Regular readers will have seen that part of the blame for falling lamb prices in general, and heavy lambs, in particular, has been laid on
East coast lamb prices tumbled fast and hard this week. With processors booked to capacity, low supply through the yards wasn’t enough to spur on
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