SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

		Sep Qtr 2008	Jun Qtr 2009	Sep Qtr 2009
TREND ESTIMATES		'000	'000	'000
Number slaughtered
	Cattle (excl. calves)	2 010	1 969	1 983
	Calves	203	199	196
	Sheep	3 050	2 629	2 534
	Lambs	5 053	5 305	5 313
	Pigs	1 173	1 125	1 135
	Chickens	116 522	118 512	116 599

		Sep Qtr 2008	Jun Qtr 2009	Sep Qtr 2009
		tonnes	tonnes	tonnes
Meat produced
	Beef	538 626	531 920	536 683
	Veal	6 545	7 815	8 336
	Mutton	64 193	55 141	53 783
	Lamb	101 893	109 579	110 254
	Pig meat	83 969	80 960	81 944
	Chicken meat	203 648	208 486	207 071
Wool receivals		94 958	88 660	86 168

	Jun Qtr 2008	Mar Qtr 2009	Jun Qtr 2009
	ML	ML	ML
Whole milk intake by factories	2 344	2 343	2 349

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS

• In the September quarter 2009, the trend estimate for sheep slaughterings decreased 4% to 2.5 million.
• The trend estimate for wool receivals by brokers and dealers decreased 3% to 86 thousand tonnes.
• The original estimate for exports of live cattle increased 9% in the September quarter to 253 thousand.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
December 2009	12 February 2010

INTRODUCTION

This publication presents statistics on livestock slaughterings (including chickens), meat production, whole milk intake by factories, market milk sales by factories, receivals of taxable wool by wool brokers and dealers, exports of live sheep and cattle and exports of fresh, chilled, frozen and processed meat. It also includes seasonally adjusted and trend totals for numbers slaughtered, meat produced, whole milk intake and wool receivals. More detailed information can be obtained by contacting the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) or by referring to the monthly ABS publication Livestock and Meat, Australia (cat. no. 7218.0.55.001).


INQUIRIES

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