Much of the debate surrounding the WA sheep industry has centred on breeding ewe numbers
DEAN HUBBARD
A leading agribusiness analyst has warned Australia’s agriculture sector is at risk from growing geopolitical tensions, arguing for a need to further diversify market opportunities globally.
Georgia Campion
A leading pulse grower has urged for a diversification of targeted markets for the legume crop, suggesting a focus on institutional food systems worth up to $50 billion a year across Australia.
For years, the Australian sheep industry has focused on one question — how big is the national sheep flock?
Dean Hubbard
At the close of the 2025–26 financial year, the Australia’s sheep industry has every reason to look ahead with renewed confidence.
During the past 18 months, both lamb and sheep slaughter numbers have fallen significantly across Australia.
Supply, not price, continues to shape sheep and lamb markets
Despite few details of the interim agreement being disclosed, the S&P-ASX200 jumped 1.25 per cent to 8914 points as oil retreated, gold gained and seven of the market’s 11 sectors finished in the green.
Sean Smith
The recent launch of the WA Sheep Industry Roadmap has generated considerable discussion across the sector, and rightly so.
The past week’s national sheep and lamb market again reinforced what is becoming an increasingly clear industry trend: the issue confronting the sector may no longer simply be price, but supply.
The broader conversation around WA sheep and lamb supply continues to gather momentum, particularly as procurement trends and interstate demand pressures become more visible across the market
Sheep and lamb markets eased across most States last week, as increased yardings and more cautious buyer activity placed downward pressure on trade, light lambs, and mutton.
Western Australia’s sheep and lamb market is showing increasingly clear signs of divergence from the Eastern States, with pricing gaps now reaching levels that are difficult to ignore.
Western Australia’s sheep and lamb market is drifting further from the Eastern States, with widening price spreads and rising freight and export pressures reshaping pricing dynamics.
Sheep and lamb markets have moved into the Easter period, with saleyards either in recess or numbers tighten and processing activity reduced across two shortened weeks.
Bob Garnant
Western Australian sheep and lamb markets are showing clear divergence, with Eastern States restocker demand driving a shift in pricing relative to the national market.
Sheep and lamb markets remain broadly firm, although a degree of underlying tension is beginning to build.
Sheep and lamb markets across Australia remain well supported, with prices trending higher in recent weeks
Western Australia’s livestock pricing relationship with the Eastern States is now telling two distinct stories.
Recent analysis of Western Australia’s livestock processing data highlights two connected stories across sheep and cattle, both contributing to a firmer pricing environment.
Recent analysis of sheep and lamb processing activity across Western Australia continues to highlight a market that remains fundamentally sound, despite modest easing in processor pricing.
Western Australia’s sheep and lamb supply is shaping up to be tighter than normal heading into a late seasonal summer ahead of a potential early autumn.
During the past 10 weeks, sheep and lamb analysts have indicated a tightening of processing supply was emerging across Australia’s major producing States, particularly in mutton.
During the past fortnight, sheep and lamb markets have showed divergent signals, particularly across the mutton sector.
