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11 February 2016
CTLX yarded 12,300 head, up 4% week-on-week, with 7,800 lambs consigned. Quality was good, with good lines of heavy and trade weight lambs offered along with plenty of lambs to suit restockers.

10 February 2016
Throughput at Forbes was back 4%, with 38,163 head offered.

05 February 2016
Wagga lamb consignments jumped 57% week-on-week to 36,000 head. It was a large yarding with a good supply of exceptional quality grain fed lambs.

04 February 2016
CTLX lamb consignments eased 2% week-on-week to 6,100 head. There was a good selection of lighter weights and shorn lambs however well finished new season lambs were in short supply.

04 February 2016
Indicative retail beef and lamb prices increased 12% year-on-year during the final quarter of 2015, to $18.51/kg retail weight (rwt) and $14.24/kg rwt, respectively

03 February 2016
Lamb numbers at Ballarat increased 22% from the previous sale to 31,149 head after the Australia Day break. Quality was good across all categories and heavy weight lambs were in good supply.

02 February 2016
In 2014 MLA launched a program to put pasture research back into the paddock and in the hands of producers. Twenty-five Producer Research Sites were established as part of MLA’s investment in the southern feedbase. The program partners producers with researchers to discover if and how pasture research fits into farming systems.

29 January 2016
Lamb consignments at Wagga declined 23%, to 23,000 head, due to considerable rain across the supply area.

28 January 2016
Lamb throughput at Hamilton lifted 9% week-on-week, to 11,964 head, with an improvement in overall quality.

22 January 2016
As the Australia Day ‘Operation Boomerang’ lamb campaign enters its third week, Friday Feedback talks to MLA’s Group Marketing Manager, Andrew Howie, about the idea behind the campaign, the controversy surrounding the advertisement and why it’s such a valuable investment for Australian sheep producers.