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  • Industry News
    Kiwi sheepmeat supply makes room for Aussie lamb
    27 June 2024
    Australian lamb slaughter reached a new peak last week, with the National Livestock Reporting Service (NLRS) slaughter report recording over 510,000 head. This figure is in line with the high production we’ve seen over the past few years; 2023 saw the largest lamb production volume on record, and Australian sheepmeat made up half of all exports.
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    Weekly cattle and sheep market wrap
    28 June 2024
    The cattle market was varied this week. Cattle yardings eased 15,960 head to 49,145, with Queensland the only state to see a significant lift in yarding to 18,593 head.
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    Weekly cattle and sheep market wrap
    21 June 2024
    The market generally moved sideways this week. Yardings dipped by 7,349 to 53,655 head, despite the longer trading week in some states after the King’s Birthday long weekend. This was mostly due to a 9,974 head drop in Queensland yardings to 15,465 head. Yardings were smaller in every Queensland sale except Dalby.
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    Quarterly national lamb slaughter highest on record: ABS
    17 May 2024
    The latest livestock products data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that last quarter, Australia had the highest lamb slaughter on record at 6,935,700 head.
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  • Industry News
    Weekly cattle and sheep market wrap
    14 June 2024
    The cattle market has eased this week, with the exception of the Restocker Yearling Steer Indicator which lifted by 1¢. An easing in yardings by 8,859 to 50,100 head was due to public holidays in NSW and Victoria.
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    Weekly cattle and sheep market wrap
    07 June 2024
    The cattle market has been generally positive barring the Restocker Yearling Steer Indicator. Yardings have eased by 21,142 head (a 30% reduction) to end the week at 49,996 head.
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    Quarterly national lamb slaughter highest on record – while cattle and beef remain level
    17 May 2024
    The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released its official livestock production and slaughter figures for the first quarter (Q1) of 2024. The figures cover the quarterly statistics on livestock slaughtered, meat production, and the gross value of livestock slaughtered across the first three months of the year.
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  • Industry News
    Is the lamb market becoming more volatile?
    14 June 2024
    Many will be asking themselves what has happened to the lamb market in recent years, with the uncertainty of the market having resulted in unexpected price changes.
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  • Market News
    National lamb slaughter
    12 September 2019
    Latest figures show national lamb slaughter at 1.5 million head in July, well below year-ago levels and only slightly higher than June throughput.
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  • Market News
    Lamb slaughter remains elevated
    15 August 2018
    According to the latest ABS data, year-to-June national lamb slaughter surpassed 12 million head for the first time on record.
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