Nov 29, 2024 · AUSTRALIA’S latest sheep producer sentiment survey points to only a small reduction in the national lamb turn-off next year and a continuing move out of specialist Merino wool production toward sheep meat and shedding sheep. The survey results released by Meat & Livestock Australia and Australian Wool innovation this morning also indicates that sentiment among Australian sheep meat producers ...

Jan 15, 2025 · AUSTRALIA’S auction wool market has started 2025 with an exchange rate-driven increase in prices for fleece and oddments, but it’s not indicative of the substantive demand recovery the industry is looking for. On Tuesday, The Australian Wool Exchange said the southern wool market launched itself ...

2 days ago · Export Lamb Rabobank sees lamb prices rising in 2025 on lower supply AUSTRALIAN lamb prices are expected to increase from current levels this year underpinned by lower production, according to Rabobank… Read More Sheep Central, January 29, 2025

Mar 1, 2024 · AUSTRALIA’S sheep flock is expected to stabilise after this year and remain above its ten-year average, Meat & Livestock Australia said this week. MLA said the national sheep flock is expected to reduce slightly driven by record lamb slaughter and elevated sheep turnoff. Lamb slaughter is projected to reach record levels two years …

Sep 9, 2024 · SHEEP Producers Australia has made a belated commitment to the Keep the Sheep Campaign and its goal to overturn federal legislation banning live sheep exports by sea from May 2028. But the peak sheep producers body has claimed its constitution prevents it from holding a formal or financial role with Keep the Sheep. The SPA commitment has come more than three weeks after it was first requested ...

Jan 17, 2025 · INTENSE exchange rate-driven competition at wool auctions this week included some new though likely speculative overseas demand, according to Australian Wool Innovation. The Australian Wool Exchange said after returning from the annual three-week Christmas recess, the market made a very positive ...

Dec 11, 2024 · CONFIDENCE in the lamb job is starting to reappear after the release of early 2025 contracts — around 850c/kg — by processors provided the ability to manage margin. In turn this has reintroduced demand on store lambs. Phil Butt, Butt Livestock and property, Yass had his annual circuit sale for lambs late November. About 14,000 lambs were offered — all individually weighed into four ...

Dec 6, 2024 · LAMB prices regularly hit 1000c/kg in pre-Christmas saleyard sales this week, but within two years Global AgriTrends analyst Simon Quilty believes this will be the average price processors will be paying. Discounting surveys or analysts that estimate little change in the nation’s ewe or lamb flock – he believes years of high ewe slaughter will turn the supply-demand cycle in producers ...

Dec 13, 2024 · A DRAMATIC drop in Australia’s forecast wool production and shorn sheep numbers next year is expected to put pressure on industry strategy and levy spending plans. The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee today forecast that in 2024/25 the country will produce 279.4 million kilograms of wool and shear 63.2 million sheep, the lowest figure since 1903 when the national flock was 54 ...

Oct 15, 2024 · AUSTRALIA’S peak sheep producer body has welcomed the Federal Government’s $32.7 million addition to its $107m transition support package for the phaseout of live sheep exports by sea. Sheep Producers Australia welcomed the new funding announced today by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Julie Collins as an acknowledgement that government support for the transition is ...