An updated Producer Version of the Visual Sheep Scores (VSS) booklet is now available. VSS is a pocket guide for commercial and stud breeders, providing a standardised framework for assessing and scoring visual sheep traits.
The latest ABS data for May reported national lamb slaughter at 1.45 million head, 33% below year-ago levels and the lowest monthly slaughter since January 2012.
In what has been a remarkable turn of events, the EMI is now 1000c lower than it was in 2018. 28,029 bales were offered this week, almost twice as many as the week before.