UK's December lamb slaughter numbers up by 5%
UK lamb kill during December was 1.25 million head, up 5% on the same month of the preavoius year levels, according to AHDB. For the year of 2020, the figure is estimated at 13.1 million head, which still puts total lamb kill during 2020 down by 50,000 head on the previous year.
However, the biggest drop seems to be related to the firs lockdown applied in the Kingdon, since June the market increasing steadily by 4% each month. "This from a crop in 2020 that was likely to have been a similar size to the crop in 2019. One factor that may have helped to drive the increase in total throughput during December was vendors aiming to finish more lambs earlier in order to beat the EU-Exit deadline. This would have allowed them to avoid the impact of tariffs that would have been imposed in the event that a trade deal was not reached. Carcase weights have remained fairly stable for several months now, but they are now marginally up on last year to average 19.5kg/head," explained Charlie Reeve, livestock analyst at AHDB.
Total sheep meat production totalled 27,700 tonnes during December, up 1,000 tonnes on December 2019. Annual production was 297,200 tonnes, 10,300 tonnes lower than in 2019, predominantly due to 247,000 fewer adult sheep slaughtered.
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