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

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.

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