Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. Concluding observations

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56 this country, and, by narrowing the margin between refrigerated and fresh-killed supplies, may afford a new and incalculable stimulus to home production. There are signs. too, that the East will shortly be a buyer. The position is somewhat complicated by the present position of mutton. Wool, until recently, has been such a satisfactory product that sheep have been fed for their wool and not for their meat. Hence the shipments of lamb and mutton have been governed more by the limit of feeding than by the question of meat; in other words, stock-owners have kept as many sheep as their pastures could carry, and have been competitors of meat-buyers at stock sales. As a result, the prices of mutton and lamb have been high and, on the whole, steady. The world’s flocks are not yet up to their pre-war level and it is, at least, doubtful if the world’s demand for wool is satisfied. Certainly, when demand and supply have, in fact, been equated on the wool market, more mutton will be available and this, in turn, may react on the price of beef, especially in this country which is the world’s great mutton and lamb market. In any event, if the recent slump in wool values continues. heavy shipments of mutton may be expected. Not only is the future obscure from the standpoint of con- sumption, but production cannot be forecasted with safety, and there seems no reliable measure of probable outputs, Indeed, all that can really be said is that Present tendencies betoken a firm market for beef for some time to come. Visibility, even in beef, is low, and in other meats it is even lower, so that the present is a most unsatisfactory moment at which to estimate its future in any direction. If, therefore, this Report has a leit-motif, it is that of change—changing condi- bions in areas of supply, changes in effective meat-exporting capacity, changes in the technique of refrigeration and trans- portation, changing tastes and demands in areas of consumption, and changes in the course which the flow of supplies is taking ; such being the case, instructive though it is hoped this brief survey may be, it is as well to bear in mind that the conditions described may be altogether different at the end of a few vears. Markets and Co-operation Branch, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, August, 1925.

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