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14 July 2021
With many animals across the country being – or soon to be – turned out, let’s take a look at how grass growth has been performing in 2021 so far.
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13 July 2021
Old season lamb prices in the ring nudged up in the latest week, while deadweight prices slipped.
30 January 2024
UK ex-farm wheat prices backed off in March, following a weakening in global grain markets. UK spot feed wheat was quoted at £199.10/t, down £3.00/t from last month (18 Feb-25 Mar), in the week ending 25 March.
13 July 2021
As of the 1 December, the total sheep population in the UK totalled 21.84 million head, 4% (930k head) lower than the same point in the previous year, according to the latest survey from Defra.
13 July 2021
Deadweight lamb prices rose further again this week, up by 4.5p to total 638.6p/kg for the week ending 20 March. Prices are currently up by 87.2p on the same week of the previous year and 170p higher than the five-year-average.
29 March 2021
Lamb has faced long term volumes challenges linked to pressure from evolving consumer needs and tastes alongside the higher price point of lamb.
13 July 2021
Total sheep meat production in the EU-27 dropped back during 2020. 421,000 tonnes of sheep meat were produced by EU-27 countries, a decrease of 4% (-16,000 tonnes) on 2019 levels.
23 May 2022
How might feed, fertiliser and fuel costs move over the coming months?
22 March 2021
After the initial five years of research, funding has now been confirmed for RamCompare t continue into the third phase
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13 July 2021
Liveweight lamb prices have fallen a little in the past week with a slight rise in the number of lambs coming to market during the week.
13 July 2021
The latest data from HMRC shows that UK sheep meat trade fell year-on-year in January.
17 March 2021
Performance records provide ram breeders and commercial ram buyers with the best way to assess the genetic potential of breeding rams.