A bleak outlook for the meat export industry with jobs and plants likely to go from next year. 

Affco is predicting the loss of hundreds of meat processing jobs due to the country's shrinking livestock numbers. 

The industry's forecasting 1 million fewer lambs to be available for processing next season. 

Federated Farmers meat and wool industry group chair Toby Williams told Mike Hosking there's a couple of factors contributing to low lamb numbers. 

“There’s a slowdown in China who aren’t taking as much sheep meat as they were. We’ve also got Australia – Australia's slaughtering record numbers of lambs at the moment, so there’s just too much sheep meat in the world.” 

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