SOUTHERN Australia’s hot and dry conditions have forced an increased number of lambs on the market, resulting in the Eastern States Trade Lamb Indicator (ESTLI) dropping 5per cent year-on-year, to 525 cents per kilograms carcase weight. Last week Western Australia trade lambs averaged 487c/kg cwt, down from 517c/kg last year, while...
AUSTRALIA'S shorn wool production for 2015/16 is set to decline by 7 per cent to 322 million kilograms greasy (mkg), a drop from the estimated 346 mkg for the 2014/15 season. The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee (AWPFC) released its revised forecast today, with the decline reflecting a combination of a...
Lamb prices have boiled over the past fortnight, as large yarding's at some sale centers, and a notable drop in competition in the past week, have seen wounding rates pull back significantly. At the close of markets last week, heavy lambs shed 9c to 509c/kg carcase weight, while trade lambs fell...
