Slaughter rates lower as autumn rain likely to see stock retained by producers

Kristen Frost
Updated March 24 2021 - 3:30pm, first published 12:00pm
LOCAL MARKET: Maurice and Enid Tyers, Ouyen, attended their local sheep market at at the Ouyen Livestock Exchange on Thursday last week.
LOCAL MARKET: Maurice and Enid Tyers, Ouyen, attended their local sheep market at at the Ouyen Livestock Exchange on Thursday last week.

Producers are guarding their lambs and holding on to their sheep even tighter with Victorian and NSW lamb slaughter figures easing year-on-year, signalling the rebuild of the national flock is well underway in Australia's two key sheep states.

Kristen Frost

Kristen Frost

National Sheep and Wool Writer

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