The slaughter lamb market in July

Prices fell

A sufficient supply of lambs for slaughter contrasted with only weak interest in lamb among local consumers in July. The producers of slaughter lambs therefore received a little less for their animals from week to week.

The mean for lambs billed at a flat rate reached only 3,30 euros per kilogram slaughter weight in July, which was another 33 cents less than in the previous month. The previous year's level was thus undercut by 55 cents.

The notifiable slaughterhouses in Germany accounted for an average of around 1.610 lambs per week in July, partly on a flat-rate basis, partly according to commercial classes. That was 6,5 percent more than in June and at least 16,5 percent more than twelve months ago.

Source: Bonn [ZmP]