What do the official wholesale fresh food prices say for lamb in Australia?
Wholesale fresh food prices in Australia, from Meat & Livestock Australia. Figures as of 22 October 2026.
Prices recorded in official records of completed sales. Asking prices are never used.
A$11.512 per kg (carcase or live weight) or per head, median
National Trade Lamb Indicator (AUD per kg carcase weight) in National Trade Lamb: median A$11.512 per kg (carcase or live weight) or per head on 22 October 2026; typical range A$11.512 to A$11.512 (10th to 90th percentile) across 1,436 records in the daily snapshot of National Livestock Reporting Service saleyard indicators (Meat & Livestock Australia) (Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), National Livestock Reporting Service). Confidence: high.
- Period
- 2026-10-22
- Kind of figure
- The median of recorded prices, with the typical range from the 10th to the 90th percentile.
- Typical range (10th to 90th percentile)
- A$11.512 to A$11.512
- Records behind it
- 1,436
- Confidence
- high
Meat & Livestock Australia NLRS saleyard indicators: weighted average auction prices for the trading day, in Australian dollars (converted from MLA's cents per kg); n is the number of animals sold.
Source: Meat & Livestock Australia. Licence: MLA Market Report and Information Terms of Use. Live answer: /api/v1/wholesale-fresh-food?country=AU&product=lamb
Where this comes from
- Source
- National Livestock Reporting Service saleyard indicators (Meat & Livestock Australia), published by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), National Livestock Reporting Service
- Licence
- MLA Market Report and Information Terms of Use: non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, copy, reproduce, publish, distribute and commercialise the Data; attribution required
- Attribution
- Reproduced courtesy of Meat & Livestock Australia Limited - www.mla.com.au
- Figures as of
- . This page is rebuilt when the daily price library is deployed.
- How fresh the source is
- Daily on trading days (MLA updates at midnight AEST); every answer states the trading day it describes
- Limits
- A weighted average of auction prices for one indicator on one day, published by MLA: not the price of a particular animal, farm or sale, not a futures price and not a retail meat price. Cattle indicators are cents per kilogram (carcase weight 'cwt' or live weight 'lwt' as the indicator says), the online indicators for lambs and sheep are dollars per head. National indicators only. MLA may change or withdraw the data on notice; MLA-only answers stay on the free tier.
- Rule
- A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.
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Using the ProofPrice MCP server (pricepaid_wholesale_fresh_food_prices): What do the official wholesale fresh food prices say for lamb in Australia? Give the figure with its unit, the period it covers, the number of records where the source states one, and cite the source and licence.Use it in code
- MCP tool:
pricepaid_wholesale_fresh_food_priceswith{"country":"AU","product":"lamb"} - REST (live answer): /api/v1/wholesale-fresh-food?country=AU&product=lamb
- All parameters: openapi.json
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Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.