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English breeding flock contracts
Thursday, 24 March 2022
According to the Defra December census the number of breeding ewes in England on 1 December 2021 contracted 1% on year earlier levels, to 6.4 million head.
The number of other sheep and lambs increased 9%, to 4.6 million head. While there is little direct correlation between this number and the size of the carry-over, the trend in this figure is indicative of trends we were expecting this year. From 2020 into 2021 relatively few lambs were carried over, as they were killed early ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period. With the absence of a Brexit deadline, we did not see this trend this time around.
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