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Are There Really Less Lambs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 7858510" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>Perhaps someone cleverer than me could put up a Poll on how many lambs there are left on farms.</p><p>The prices indicate that numbers are indeed very short, however the slaughter statistics are significantly lower since August.</p><p></p><p>We would have less lambs to slaughter between now and April, but would have more ewe lambs kept back for replacements. This may explain some of the difference, but not all.</p><p>Some of those ewe lambs could get killed if they are £150 plus in the Spring!</p><p>The price of ewes while satisfactory is nowhere near as dear as the lambs and yet if anything was to be short it is them as many more older ewes have been retained for breeding.</p><p></p><p>The butchers and wholesalers we supply have reduced the amount of lamb due to the cost and are 30 to 50% less than two years ago, last year was skewed by Covid when numbers doubled. If as seems likely the export market is taking up all the slack then prices should remain very good. </p><p>I hope that is the situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 7858510, member: 699"] Perhaps someone cleverer than me could put up a Poll on how many lambs there are left on farms. The prices indicate that numbers are indeed very short, however the slaughter statistics are significantly lower since August. We would have less lambs to slaughter between now and April, but would have more ewe lambs kept back for replacements. This may explain some of the difference, but not all. Some of those ewe lambs could get killed if they are £150 plus in the Spring! The price of ewes while satisfactory is nowhere near as dear as the lambs and yet if anything was to be short it is them as many more older ewes have been retained for breeding. The butchers and wholesalers we supply have reduced the amount of lamb due to the cost and are 30 to 50% less than two years ago, last year was skewed by Covid when numbers doubled. If as seems likely the export market is taking up all the slack then prices should remain very good. I hope that is the situation. [/QUOTE]
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