Weather the key impact on summer lamb sales in Australia

Published 2023년 3월 13일

Tridge summary

A recent survey of sheep and wool producers has shown that weather conditions and floods negatively impacted lamb selling in the latter part of 2022, leading to a shortfall in sales. Despite this, producers are planning to make up for the loss in the first half of 2023. The survey, which was updated to measure flock population, demographics, and production intentions, found that 51% of producers sold fewer lambs than expected in 2022, while 13% sold more. The average change in lamb sales at the farm level was a 29% decline. However, 55% of producers anticipate selling more lambs in the first half of 2023, with an expected increase of 3.27 million lambs to be sold in the first half of 2023, totaling 13.44 million.

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Original content

The latest survey data from sheep and wool producers shows that floods and weather hampered lamb selling in the final months of 2022, but that producers are planning to make up this shortfall in the first half of 2023. The survey data has been published in the Sheep Producer Intentions PULSE survey (formally known as the MLA and AWI Sheepmeat and Wool survey). This survey provides updated information that builds on the October 2022 full Sheep Producer Intentions Survey.The revamped Sheep Producers Intentions Survey was re-launched in October 2022 to measure and report on flock population, demographics, sheepmeat and wool supply information and producer production intentions.Data was collected across several topics; however, the focus of the October 2022 survey was specifically on the lamb flock of producers and their intentions for the remainder of the spring flush and onward to June 2023.The October 2022 survey reported on an estimate of the planned and forecasted lamb sales ...

Source: Mla