date:Mar 14, 2014
The 2014 cumulative sheep kill is some nine per cent lower up to the week ending the 9 March. This represents a fall of almost 40,000 over the period since the start of the year on 2013.
Slaughtering was was down again last week in at sheep export premises according to Department of Agriculture figures. In total the sheep kill for the week stood at 36,210 this in itself is down more than 5,000 or 14 per cent on the same week last year.
Almost all categories of sheep recorded a lower kill last