Beef + Lamb New Zealand releases annual lamb crop outlook report
15 Dec, 2020 08:30 PM
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Lambs graze alongside State Highway93, between Clinton and Mataura, yesterday. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery
Otago Daily Times
By: Sally Rae
Otago has been the major driver of a lift in lambs born in the South Island this year, with the region recording a 3.9 per cent increase in total lamb crop.
Beef+Lamb New Zealand has released its annual lamb crop outlook report which measured lambing performance and forecasts lamb and sheep exports for 2021.
Nationally, sheep farmers achieved a near-record 130.3 per cent lambing percentage, despite Covid-19 related processing restrictions and widespread drought in the first half of 2020. That was only slightly lower than spring 2019 where 131 per cent was achieved, the report said.