{"id":32305,"date":"2018-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/lamb-price-crisis-in-ireland\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"lamb-price-crisis-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/lamb-price-crisis-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb price crisis in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Irish Farmers Association\u2019s sheep chairman Sean Dennehy urged producers to consider all options to avoid selling under-finished lambs, including summer meal feeding.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder-finished lambs are a significant issue and are causing unnecessary problems on the market in terms of both numbers and price,\u201d he said, adding the country\u2019s meat companies agree prices need to stabilise.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarket demand is strong with total supply numbers forecast to be less than last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the amount of under-finished lambs being marketed is adding significantly to numbers at the plants and this in turn is working against farmers on price.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf these lambs were not presented the price would be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recent survey of 500 Irish sheep farmers, run by the association, found the sector\u2019s difficulties are caused by high feed costs, increased lamb losses and drought.<\/p>\n

It showed 44% of sheep farmers had increased lamb losses during the severe weather this spring. Of them, 24% had losses greater than 10% and more than 7% had losses above 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish farming leaders have appealed to the country\u2019s meat companies not to impose further price cuts on producers even though some factories report having to deal with up to 30% under-finished lambs because of severe drought.\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t