Sheep

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Market Comment

ESTLI slips under $6/kg

The cheaper direction settled in this week with prices for most categories of lamb and sheep pushing lower. With supply exceeding normal bounds for this

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Market Analysis

Praise to lamb

Lamb consumption tends to be influenced by ethnic, cultural, and religious drivers, which can create a highly seasonal pattern of demand. The question is at

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Sheep in field
Market Comment

Tale of two supply streams

Right now, the lamb market is heading in a few different directions. On one hand trade lambs are abundant which is dragging the price down.

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Market Analysis

Winter lamb lift less likely

The early and quite widespread autumn break gave a confidence boost to lamb prices throughout April, but despite the rain continuing, the market strength has

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Market Comment

An Autumn Fall

Processors were kept busy last week with the full work week, as East Coast lamb slaughter reached 377k head , the highest number since May

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Market Analysis

Mutton recovery

Back in December mutton prices tanked to their lowest levels since 2016. Increased supply was largely to blame for the mutton decline, but we’ve seen

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Large lambs in pen on farm
Market Comment

Supersized saleyard supply

Saleyard lamb supply has been trending lower than last year since early March, driven by the onset of rain, and falling prices. However, this week

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Market Comment

Mutton moving on up

Disrupted working weeks have led to a mixed market. Slaughter numbers in these short weeks have been relatively strong but saleyard throughput continues to be

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Research: Analysis of the Australian sheep flock

In this report for LiveCorp and MLA, we analysed the historical trends in the demographics of the Australian sheep flock, examining domestic factors that influence farm-level enterprise decision making. 

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