Tag: Falklands lambs

• Saturday, May 6th 2017 - 11:48 UTC

  Falklands meat export season considered “good”, 626 tons

  

  More than 40,000 animals were processed during the last Falkland Islands Meat Company season. FIMCO Operations Manager Dave Roberts commented that the 2017 export season began with the staff arriving on January 21. A high percentage of them returned from previous seasons to the Sandy Bay plant.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 07:07 UTC

  Falklands' economy performance impressive, although volatile and vulnerable

  

  The Falkland Islands economy has witnessed impressive, although volatile, growth in recent years with unemployment rates low enough to be the envy of most countries in the world and the government is free of debt, according to the latest “State of the Economy” released by the Falklands Policy Unit.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2015 - 05:27 UTC

  Falklands' 4.000 ewes to be AI with Australian Poll Merino

  

  Australian Poll Merino genetics are being used to drive lamb survival in one of the world’s harshest wool producing environments of the Falkland Islands, reports The Rural, from Australia.

• Sunday, July 14th 2013 - 11:05 UTC

  Falklands growing meat industry exposed to international market volatility

  

  Falkland Islands meat industry is suffering the pains of growth and of international markets’ volatility, according to the latest number of sheep and cattle processed in the EU licensed local Sand Bay abattoir. However the quality and quantity of lambs produced continues to advance.