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14 October 2022
A wrap-up of recent GB store sheep and cattle price movements
2 January 2025
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) have revised their 2022 sheep industry projections upwards.
13 October 2022
The latest EU short-term outlook has been released for the red meat sector.
18 April 2023
In the European Commission’s short-term Spring outlook, EU beef and sheep meat production are forecast to see year-on-year (YOY) declines in 2023, at 1.6% and 1.2% respectively, driven by lower slaughter.
25 April 2023
With key lamb producing regions seeing flock declines, EU production is forecast to decline by 1.2% year-on-year (YOY) in 2023, potentially supporting prices on the continent.
11 October 2022
This manual provides new guidelines for ultrasound scanning of sheep for muscle and fat depth. Ultrasound scanning provides measures for body composition in sheep breeding programmes, designed to enhance carcase yield and conformation, while optimising fatness.
11 October 2022
In the 25 years since the introduction of across-flock evaluations, more than 3 million terminal sire sheep records have been analysed by Signet Breeding Services. This analysis has been carried out by using a dataset of over 650,000 ultrasound scans for muscle and fat depth, and over 10,000 images from computed tomography (CT). The UK breeds sheep with world-leading terminal sire genetics and has some of the best tools for measuring and analysing sheep in the world.
7 October 2022
A wrap-up of EU beef and sheep meat production during the first half of 2022
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30 September 2022
GB new season lamb prices continued to follow seasonal trends in September, weakening, but remaining relatively steady.
30 September 2022
Provisional survey results show more cattle and sheep in Ireland versus a year ago.
27 October 2022
The amount of methane produced per kilogramme of lamb sold is an important consideration for farmers and supply chains looking to reduce their environmental footprint.
22 September 2022
UK sheep meat exports dip below 2021 in July