Highlights

• Total frozen and chilled red meat in cold storage at the opening of the first business day of July 2006 amounted to 89 434 metric tonnes, down 6% from 95 111 tonnes in April 2006 and down 3% from 91 949 tonnes in July 2005. Stocks of frozen poultry meat in cold storage on July1^st 2006 totalled 70 649 metric tonnes, up 16% from a year ago. The graph below depicts the monthly stocks of all frozen and chilled red meat from January 1990 to July 2006.