Quality Wool and Quality Livestock will be hosting two BredWell FedWell Workshops, an initiative of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) as part of their Making More from Sheep program.
A NEW record was set at the annual charity wool auction held by Quality Wool in Melbourne, when sales raised more than $75,000 for Ronald McDonald House Westmead in Sydney.
The few good pens of trade and heavy lambs sold to a dearer trend while the bulk of the trade lambs were lacking finish and pulled the average back at SELX Yass.
Cash income for sheep farms is expected to increase to an average of $133,000 per farm in 2016-17, which is around 70 per cent above the average over the past 10 years.
According to the latest data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australian lamb slaughter in December lifted 9% year-on-year, with just over 2 million lambs processed.