MARCH KEY TREND FIGURES

	Dec 2015	Mar 2016	Dec '15 to Mar '16	Mar'15 to Mar'16
Livestock (no.)
Cattle (excluding calves)	2 104 229	2 000 396	-4.9%	-15.6%
Calves	144 950	129 254	-10.8%	-27.8%
Sheep	2 078 671	2 014 532	-3.1%	-8.1%
Lambs	5 820 158	5 909 049	1.5%	3.6%
Pigs	1 231 886	1 234 086	0.2%	-0.5%
Chickens	152 520 967	155 986 136	2.3%	5.4%

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Livestock products (t)
Beef	592 722	572 748	-3.4%	-13.4%
Veal	6 538	5 606	-14.3%	-43.5%
Mutton	49 610	48 129	-3.0%	-7.8%
Lamb	128 289	130 183	1.5%	2.8%
Pig meat	93 225	93 335	0.1%	-0.2%
Total red meat	870 384	850 001	-2.3%	-10.0%
Chicken meat	283 034	286 564	1.3%	2.7%
Brokers and dealers receivals of taxable wool	88 729	87 186	-1.7%	-5.3%

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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 March 2016:

• Beef production for the March Quarter 2016 fell 3 percent on December Quarter 2015 and 13 percent year on year.
• Veal production decreased by 900 tonnes on the December Quarter and 4,300 tonnes year on year.
• Mutton production in the March Quarter 2016 fell by 3 percent on the December Quarter 2015 and fell by 8 percent year on year.
• Lamb production increased in the March Quarter 2016 by 1,900 tonnes or 1 percent and increased by 3 percent year on year.
• The production of pork increased in the March Quarter 2016 by 100 tonnes compared to production in the December Quarter 2015.