Prices for lamb and beef down

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33455, 9 February 1974, Page 12

Prices for lamb and beef down

Prices to farmers for all classes (if lamb, except Alpha and unexportable, will be reduced from Monday by a further 2c a kilogram.

; Prices have also been re-. (duced 2c a kilogram for all] (classes of beef, except bull] (beef over 260 kilograms. ( A meat industry spokes-: (man said yesterday that the;; (offtake of lambs in the Uni|ted Kingdom was very dis-[' (appointing. Shipping of sup-;| (plies was being delayed, and], iso there was every possi-I

bility of a storage problem j | developing at freezing works! | throughout New Zealand. | Prices being received inp Britain were also very dis-h appointing, he said. However, prices for both ■ woolly and shorn lamb skins p had been raised by 10c each.i At the same time, paymentsl, for all sheep skins had been! reduced by 10c. ' The new prices are: LAMB Prime. —Eight to 12.5 kg. 51.7 c. per kg; 13 to 16kg, 51.2 c; 16.5. to 19kg, 49.3 c; 19.5 to 2a.5kg,, Fair average quality.—Eight to: 12.5 kg. 48.2 c; 13 to 16kg, 50.2 c;: 16.5 to 25.5 kg. 45.4 c. „ j Omega.—Eight to 12.5 kg, 4/.7c;j 13 to 16kg. 45.2 c. Alpha. —43.3 c. I, Export cutter.—No. 1. up to: 12.5 kg, 42.5 c; No. 1, over 13kg,!' 46.4 c; No. 2. all weights, 33.2 c. Overfat lambs.—34.6c. Unexportable lambs.—2sc. Rams. —12c. For woollv lamb skins, pay- 1 , ments will range from 130 c _!or, a skin with a pull of 0.45 kg j to 279 c for one with a pull of: I.skg; and for shorn lamb skins.:’ prices will range from 92c for! a skin of o.2kg Io 198 c for one with a pull of Ikg. For sheep skins, the new rates vary from i 109 c for a skin with a wool-1 pull of o.2kg to 348 c for a skin’ with a pull of 2kg. BEEF Ox and heifer beef. —Chiller:; [l, up to 220 kg, ox. 68c and heifer, 66c; 2. 221 to 270 kg, ox. 72c and heifer. 70c; 3, 271 to 340 kg. 74c and 72c; 4. over 340 kg. 74c and 72c. G.A.Q.; 1. up to: 220 kg, 66c and 64c; 2, 221 to; 270 kg. 70c and 68c; 3, 271 to 340 kg, 72c and 70c; 4. over 340 kg. :72c and 70c. F.a.q.: 1. up to 220: kg, 62c and 60c; 2, 221 to 270 kg,; 64c and 62c; 3. 271 to 340 kg. 64c and 62c; 4, over 340 kg. 64c j and 62c. Cow beef.—G.a.q. 1, grade 1:. up to 200 kg. 64c; over 200 kg, 66c. G.a.q.: up to 140 kg. 56c;’ over 140 kg, 64c. F.a.q.: up to! 140 kg, 50c; over 140 kg, 57c. Trimmer grade (ox, heifer, and cow). —1. all weights: 43c. : Manufacturing grade (ox, I , heifer, and cowl.—l, up to 140 kg. 150 c: 2, over 140 kg. 57c. Bull beef.—Manufacturing 1 ’ up to 180 kg, 60c; 2. 181 to 260 kg. ,70c; 3, over 260 kg, 75c. Fa.q.: 1. up to 200 kg. 60c; 2, over 200 kg. ’ 60c,