Content related to the topic: lamb

7 June 2022

FAO Food Price Index falls in May

The FAO Food Price Index was down 0.6% from April's level

1 June 2022

GB deadweight lamb prices ease

In the week ending 28 May, GB deadweight sheep prices lost some ground from the week before.

26 May 2022

Weekly lamb throughputs slightly down

Auction market throughputs, and slaughter were both lower in the week

25 May 2022

How selective breeding will improve sheep resilience to climate change

A project to identify how sheep breeds are evolving to better cope with the challenges of climate change has been carried out as part of the joint AHDB and BBSRC Initiative: Enabling the agricultural transition to net-zero.

24 May 2022

New Zealand sheep meat trade update

New Zealand has slaughtered 12.8million sheep and lambs in the first half of the 2021/22 season (which began in October), totalling 256,000 tonnes of sheep meat

19 May 2022

Liveweight down, deadweight up for lamb prices

In the week ending 18 May, liveweight lamb prices declined with the OSL SQQ dropping 13.7p, to 255.6p/kg

12 September 2022

RamCompare six-year results

RamCompare is the UK’s commercial progeny test for terminal sire rams. Over six breeding seasons, we have recorded the performance of around 30,000 lambs sired by 313 rams through artificial insemination (AI) and natural mating.

19 May 2022

UK sheep meat trade balance positive in the first quarter

Positive trade balance for UK sheep meat in Q1

12 May 2022

Lamb prices broadly stable

Lamb prices were mixed last week

12 May 2022

April lamb kill continues annual upward trend

The main driver for the increase in year-on-year production is due to an increase in slaughter numbers in 2022.

11 May 2022

How to choose the right KPIs for your sheep enterprise

Join us to learn about the key findings from a recent AHDB-funded PhD that investigated which key performance indicators can have the biggest impact on sheep farms.

11 May 2022

Using EID to drive farm performance

Matt Blyth and Challenge Sheep project farmer, Ian Wilson, looking at how the use of electronic identification (EID) can aid decision making on farm to improve performance.