'Someone is making a dollar': Farmers shoot sheep rather than take them to market at a loss

  • 📰 abcnews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 46 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 22%
  • Publisher: 83%

Ireland News News

Ireland Ireland Latest News,Ireland Ireland Headlines

Consumers continue to pay high prices for meat while farmers say the prices they are getting are not worth sending their livestock to market.

abc.net.au/news/farmers-shooting-sheep-rather-than-selling-them-at-low-prices/102766038Farmers are shooting sheep rather than taking them to market because the price they are being paid for lamb is not enough to cover their costs.The national lamb supply is up almost 40 per cent on last year, creating a glut and sending prices tumbling for farmers

The national lamb supply is up almost 40 per cent on last year — that's an extra 640,000 head — and this glut is driving down prices for farmers, according to the producer-owned Meat and Livestock Australia .from Deakin University, with family favourite beef mince up 6 per cent.WoolProducers Australia president Steve Harrison said farmers were hurting across Victoria, northern New South Wales, and Western Australia.

Farmers are a pragmatic bunch, and they knew livestock prices could not stay at last year's record highs. "The cost of transport to yards, and what you got back — it was senseless in sending stock if you had to end up paying," Ms Harris said."Hopefully it does not get that way again, but we'll just have to wait and see."Such a waste of food and fibre was "unconscionable", said Ronni Kahn, founder of the food rescue charity OzHarvest.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 5. in İE

Ireland Ireland Latest News, Ireland Ireland Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Market research mystery for farmers cold called about controversial transmission lineA Victorian farmer says someone purporting to be doing market research for the federal government seemed to be trying to elicit positive response about the VNI West transmission line.
Source: abcnews - 🏆 5. / 83 Read more »