Mutton heads offshore as slaughter increases

Jamie-Lee Oldfield
Updated March 15 2019 - 6:04pm, first published March 14 2019 - 10:30am
SELLERS: Regular vendors Terry and Mavis Crozier, Wargan, sold sheep at Ouyen last week, where 2954 lambs and 523 mutton were offered.
SELLERS: Regular vendors Terry and Mavis Crozier, Wargan, sold sheep at Ouyen last week, where 2954 lambs and 523 mutton were offered.

Sheepmeat exports rose 35 per cent year-on-year for the month of February, with demand from China almost tripling.

Jamie-Lee Oldfield

Livestock editor for The Land.

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