The quiet achiever in Australia's sheep meat market is mutton

Kristen Frost
Updated October 17 2018 - 8:56am, first published 7:00am
MOVING ON UP: In the last five months demand out of China for mutton has been significant – up by 77pc compared to the five year average.
MOVING ON UP: In the last five months demand out of China for mutton has been significant – up by 77pc compared to the five year average.

As Australia’s lamb supply and price responds to welcome 15 to 50 millimetre falls across parts of the eastern states, it’s mutton that has been trumping the sheep market. 

Kristen Frost

Kristen Frost

National Sheep and Wool Writer

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