Lamb price holds firm for start to new year markets.

Finished lamb prices are holding steady with the SQQ well above 200p/kg liveweight. Lamb consumption - competitive landscape for red meat, challenged by chicken and pork prices, with lamb retail sales down 0.6% year-on-year (Kantar 52 weeks to 6 October 2019), following a 7.9% fall in 2018. [Extracted from the article]