Beef & Lamb

14 October 2022

A wrap-up of recent GB store sheep and cattle price movements

14 October 2022

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.

14 October 2022

Learning from this year’s drought to plan a preventative strategy is good risk management, but calculate figures, don’t guess

13 October 2022

Following three years of research, three new maternal estimated breeding values (EBVs) have been added to the National Beef Evaluations (NBE) database by AHDB.

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.

10 October 2022

SIAL Paris returns on Saturday, following two years of lockdowns and international travel restrictions, bringing over 310,000 visitors from more than 200 countries together under the one roof.

7 October 2022

A wrap-up of EU beef and sheep meat production during the first half of 2022

6 October 2022

GB deadweight cattle prices trended upwards in September. For the 4-weeks ending 1 October the average price for all prime cattle averaged 436.9p/kg

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