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“Despite the challenges of 2020 including drought and Covid-19, sheep farmers demonstrated why they are the world’s best, their resilience and the agility of their farming systems has meant they’ve performed outstandingly and this should be a real point of pride for our sector,” Beef and Lamb chief executive Sam McIvor said. Despite this, export volumes would probably be significantly affected by the follow-on effects of the drought that struck a number of regions across the country earlier this year. This was because of lower animal weights and the retention of sheep for breeding and building up stock numbers, he said.