Lamb Price Outlook For 2011

Lamb prices set a record high in 2010, which is welcome news for producers after the last several years of depressed prices. The last record-high year for slaughter-lamb prices was 2005. The 2010 prices exceeded that old record by more than 15 per cent. Slaughter-lamb prices were 25 per cent higher than the depressed prices




Lamb Prices Strengthen On Lower Supplies

Lamb prices have shown a strong seasonal price improvement during February and March. Prices at northern Plains markets for fed lambs have increased from about $100 per hundredweight (cwt) in early January to more than $120 per cwt in mid-March. The strength in prices was due to both lower supplies of lambs and stronger ethnic


Study Finds Weaknesses In Lamb Value Chain

Canada’s lamb producers are missing out on a $42-million opportunity in farm gate sales and $250 million at retail, due to lack of domestic supply and “ineffective management” of the lamb value chain, according to a new study by the Guelphbased Value Chain Management Centre. The study, released July 22, noted a 100 per cent

Ontario lamb is in big demand

GUELPH The demand for Ontariogrown lamb is so keen that packers can’t fill all the orders from retailers. Tony Faccioli, owner and general manager of Holly Park Meat Packers in Toronto and president of the Ontario Independent Meat Packers and Processors Association, says he’s turning away retail customers because he needs the lambs to meet