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Lamb
30 January 2024
In contrast to last year, grass growth has had rather a slow start to the season.
13 July 2021
Liveweight prices have increased this week, although the increase was weighted towards earlier in the week. The GB liveweight OSL SQQ increased by 10.9p, to 213.0p/kg.
9 April 2020
With the nation’s restaurants closed for the foreseeable future, farmers and chefs are teaming up to help people enjoy the perfect steak dinner at home.
14 July 2021
In December AHDB released its forecasts for cattle and sheep production. Since then the market has changed dramatically with much of Europe now in ‘lockdown’ due to coronavirus. Sheep prices have come under pressure with a lack of demand both domestically and in Europe, and the cattle industry is struggling with carcase balance.
13 July 2021
The GB liveweight OSL SQQ fell a further 18.6p, to 202.15p/kg, in the week ending 1 April. Taking the last two weeks together, prices have dropped by 47.9p/kg.
13 July 2021
New Zealand volumes of sheep meat to the EU plus UK were marginally up during the first two months of 2020 at just shy of 25,000 tonnes. New Zealand’s usage of its EU quota (which for now includes the UK) during the first three months of the year was steady on-the-year.
14 November 2025
A project investigating the impact of body condition and mating ewes as ewe lambs or shearlings on lifetime performance.
13 July 2021
The past week has been firmly spilt in two for the GB lamb market. The weekly GB liveweight OSL SQQ fell almost 30p in the week ended 25 March, to 220.76p/kg.
13 July 2021
The size of the UK breeding flock was steady year-on-year at the 1 December 2019.
8 March 2024
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has dominated global markets over the past month, and it remains a fast changing situation.
14 July 2021
Using Defra and HMRC data, as well as AHDB’s own eating out review of 2019, it’s possible to approximate how supply and demand balance for each red meat in the UK.