DECEMBER KEY TREND FIGURES

	Sep 2015	Dec 2015	Sep '15 to Dec '15	Dec '14 to Dec '15
Livestock (no.)
Cattle (excluding calves)	2 223 990	2 143 400	-3.6%	-9.5%
Calves	161 981	147 250	-9.1%	-15.1%
Sheep	2 107 721	2 145 086	1.8%	-7.7%
Lambs	5 728 435	5 721 761	-0.1%	0.7%
Pigs	1 234 365	1 229 133	-0.4%	0.1%
Chickens	148 998 854	150 049 695	0.7%	1.4%

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Livestock products (t)
Beef	620 632	600 027	-3.3%	-8.9%
Veal	7 755	6 672	-14.0%	-34.7%
Mutton	50 214	51 019	1.6%	-7.6%
Lamb	126 850	126 164	-0.5%	0.1%
Pig meat	93 368	93 064	-0.3%	0.6%
Total red meat	898 819	876 946	-2.4%	-7.0%
Chicken meat	279 371	279 889	0.2%	0.3%
Brokers and dealers receivals of taxable wool	90 686	89 200	-1.6%	-1.3%

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Source(s): Livestock Products, Australia (cat. no. 7215.0)

Source(s): Livestock Products, Australia (cat. no. 7215.0)

KEY POINTS

Livestock slaughtering and meat production quarterly trend movements for December 2015:

• Cattle slaughter fell for the fourth consecutive quarter after peaking in December 2014
• Lamb slaughter decreased slightly, down from record levels in the previous quarter
• Chicken slaughter and chicken meat production increased to record levels