date:Mar 11, 2014
was down 12% year-on-year in February, while auction volumes fell 20% short in Scotland and 19% south of the boarder.
With fewer hoggs, processors have had to bid higher to secure sufficient volumes to cover their orders.
He continued: While the 2013 lamb crop was around five percent smaller than a year earlier in Scotland, it was one percent higher at the UK level, meaning an additional 152,000 lambs on the ground.
Macdonald pointed out that a tighter market does not necessarily follow on