A single sheep stands in the middle of a herd in a pen.

Sheep market up in first quarter; down from ’22

Decline attributed to inflationary pressure on consumers, and price volatility at auction markets expected to continue

Canada’s domestic sheep and lamb market continues to get by despite being largely overshadowed by imports from the world’s two largest exporting countries, Australia and New Zealand. In Alberta, the first quarter of 2023 saw prices per hundredweight for live lamb up slightly from the same period year-over-year and remaining more than 13 percent above […] Read more