Download Livestock slaughter statistics for sheep, cattle, goats, horses and pigs

There is a one-month lag between the data being processed and the data being published to the MPI website. The data is provisional for three months from the time of its release and is at the national level only.
At least three years of data is available on the MPI website. Further time series of the data are available on Infoshare, a service provided by Statistics New Zealand which allows viewing of the meat slaughter statistics at both the national and the regional levels. http://www.stats.govt.nz/infoshare/. The most recent time series of the data will be available on Infoshare by the 30th of each month.
Questions about the data can be emailed to stats_info@mpi.govt.nz.