Figures from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s database indicate that last year’s cumulative throughput of sheep at sheepmeat export plants stood at 2,782,661.
Breakdown:
- Lambs/hoggets: 739,027;
- Spring lambs: 1,635,336;
- Ewes and rams: 406,663;
- Light lambs: 1,635.
Week 52
Its database shows that 29,300 sheep were processed during the last week of 2019.
- Lambs/hoggets: 8;
- Spring lambs: 27,710;
- Ewes and rams: 1,581;
- Light lambs: 1.