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What do higher lambing percentages mean for price?

<p>Anecdotal evidence circulating around Hamilton in Victoria suggests that the benign weather in winter and spring, along with heavy feeding regimes over summer, have seen lambing percentages in western Victoria and south east South Australia for crossbred sheep around 10% higher this year.</p>

Alex Paul
What do higher lambing percentages mean for price?

  What does this mean for lamb supply and prices over the coming months? To get any meaningful supply information out of anecdotal evidence on marking rates, we need to have some idea of how many breeding...

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A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the farming sector, brought to you by the Farming Ahead team.

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