Australia riding on the sheep’s back?

With Eid al-Adha approaching, the price of sheep has been reported to be increasing… all very exciting huh!

Not much point trying to explain this whole Eid thing in detail at the moment, but basically it includes distributing meat to the poor. To meet the demand for sheep there has been an increase in imports leading up to this time, and the prices are the thing I cannot work out at all…. Sudanese and Iranian sheep are going for QAR700-800, you can get Syrian sheep on the black market for QAR1000+ (apparently the most sort after)… and the lowly little Australian sheep are going for QAR370!!!!!

Doesn’t this all seem a little strange? Possibly the cheap Australian sheep is somehow tied into oil imports or something, but maybe this has something to do with why Australian farmers are doing so badly… maybe Australia just doesn’t have very good sheep to ride on anymore! The only thing I know for sure is you can buy Australian sheep cheaper in Qatar than you can in Australia and that just all seems a little strange.