With plenty of lambs on the ground, and the peak winter/spring lambing season fast approaching and bankers wanting budgets for the new financial year, the
Mecardo’s Percentiles update for May 2021. Click below to view the latest report Grains Oilseeds Sheep and lambs Cattle Wool Dairy Fuel Percentiles are an important
Lamb slaughter totals for the first quarter have fallen 10.5 per cent year-on-year, back to levels not seen since 2012. Both the five and 10-year
Lamb prices tracking sideways or lightly lifting is more or less the ‘norm’ for April & May and so far this season has stood by
We often point out how Australia and New Zealand are the only major sheepmeat exporters in the world, and the ‘agri benchmark’ confirms why. Agri
Both price and supply of lambs appear to have found some stability. Saleyard throughput has been tracking at close to average levels for the last
The shine has come off store sheep prices. After spending six months at historically extreme levels store lambs have eased in recent weeks, and some
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
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