Weather the key impact on summer lamb sales in Australia

Lamb

Meat

Australia

Published Mar 13, 2023

Tridge summary

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).

Original content

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 covering three time periods: Reported sales: sales of lambs that had been made up to the point of the producer completing the October survey – that is sometime between 29th September to 24th October 2022. Planned sales: this was a producer estimate of the sales to be made in the remaining spring flush and the period up to 31 December 2022. Forecast sales: this was ...

Source: Mla