sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
42kg average weight at home £74.79 at Woodheads,Turriff. Charollais and Texel crosses April born off grass.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
hillman
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- Location
- Wicklow Ireland
Good to hear your price is on the up as ours has hit a bump again and dropped 5 c / kg !
Wait if you can. Screw me hope the factory's can fill the kill for a few weeks, they've hurt us bad in the last few month, let's return the favour. Offered 10p over base to shift cattle this week, no thanks you'll need them more next week.
- Location
- North Somerset.
Put a few through the live auction, that will be the real test of where the market is going. Make the processors compete and if you don't like what they are offering, bring them home!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
UK fat cattle just aren't about currently and wont be until nearer xmas at least.... cant see the proccessors letting a strike happen ( other than the odd day ), they need to keep killing/ cutting up to cover the order books/ fixed costs of running these plants which aren't cheap by any means...
cudota
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- Location
- east lancashire
27 quid for fat hoggs in the falklands ..asked where they went ....uk
About on a par with here then time you knock off our inspection grading and transport charges
cudota
Member
- Location
- east lancashire
Yes he reckoned shipping was there major cost
- Location
- Devon
And yet people still giving more money for shearlings than last year?
cudota
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- Location
- east lancashire
yes make sense of that for me
none --- produce an R3L and reap the rewards
- Location
- West Somerset
Why! Do they know something we don't, or is it a case of always have always will, hands firmly in pockets this year.
i agree,but the cull trade is still strong if you get £80 for a cull £135 isnt to bad for 5/6 crops of lambs and then cull price again,same old story though every body earns out of the lambs except the farmer
- Location
- Devon
We keep hearing cull trade is good. But that's a difference of £55. When a good shearling was £90 and culls were making £50 we were better off. And the dead ones were less of a loss. People don't seem to see this.