Demand for lamb kill now
After a late start to the lamb kill in Canterbury, hot weather is drying up available pasture and pushing lambs into the freezing works in much greater numbers.
The livestock manager of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Mr N. G. Cornelius, said yesterday that the company’s lamb kill at the end of December was more than 10 per cent behind the level of the previous season at the corresponding time. But now all sheep-killing capacity is being fully used and farmers face about a week’s delay in getting their lambs killed.
Estimates of the number of lambs killed so far this season throughout the whole of New Zealand have put the total 20 per cent behind the comparable figure for the previous season.
This widespread delay, which will lead to a heavy demand on killing facilities in the next few months, has been caused by the attraction to farmers of the supplementary minimum price payable for lambs' wool and good pasture growth until this month.
The supplementary minimum price has induced farmers to hold on to their lambs and get a wool crop before sending them to the works.
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