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10 March 2022
The Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) fell to start the week due to softer yardings driven by widespread rainfall and flooding in NSW and Queensland. The indicator then recovered 8c on Wednesday by a return to traditional seasonal yardings for Dalby in Queensland. Less affected areas also have reduced yardings as they maintain restocker intentions off the back of favourable rain events over the past week.

10 March 2022
Lambs are now flowing on to the market, lifting 2022 weekly lamb slaughter volumes above 2021 and 2020 levels for the first time this year.

03 March 2022
Encouragingly, restocker buyers at South Australian saleyards this week have operated strongly on lambs, driving the state’s indicator price to 98c/kg cwt or 11% higher than week ago levels.

24 February 2022
The WA heavy lamb price is currently outperforming its eastern states equivalent by 96c/kg cwt / Demand for restocker steers in Queensland continues to remain strong / Goat slaughter volumes are at their highest since October 2020

10 February 2022
This week, light lambs are the only indicator to be in a stronger position than 12 months ago. Meanwhile, the medium steer indicator is offering a premium to its heavy steer counterpart.

10 February 2022
In the first five weeks of 2022, national slaughter numbers were subdued as processors’ workforces were decimated by mandatory isolation periods for close contacts and positive cases of COVID-19. However, this week, processor numbers started to lift and reflect 2021 throughput. 

03 February 2022
Processors dominated cattle sales at Wodonga this week as Dorpers and Merinos were the standouts of Dubbo’s Monday sale. Meanwhile, rain in goat-producing regions may impact slaughter.

27 January 2022
Weekly cattle and sheep market wrap

20 January 2022
Despite reports to the contrary, there have been some strong processor numbers to start 2022. While lamb and cattle slaughter numbers are below 2020 and 2021 levels so far this year, circumstances are improving.

20 January 2022
Weekly cattle and sheep market wrap