- Location
- North Yorkshire
Anyone at Leyburn today? By the report stores looked a hell of a trade
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
55% off my scales I'd guess. so 450kg on the hook! Dawn pay to 400, then I think 10p off to 410 and 20p off to 420 then I think what is left is their for free! so that makes him £1386? is that right
So needs to be 175p/kg live to match will need to be more as reckon it will cost me double to sell him in the mart £50+levies. Never sold in the mart for ages due to TB and I think I'm in the part they want to declare TB free
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
The auld man went...calves up..stores up
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
If he's a proper Angus looking thing at 800 odd kilos then he will only be £1.75 a kilo...I reckon it costs around £17 per beast more to sell live than dead55% off my scales I'd guess. so 450kg on the hook! Dawn pay to 400, then I think 10p off to 410 and 20p off to 420 then I think what is left is their for free! so that makes him £1386? is that right
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Cheers, will try and get a photo. He's a nice bullock, as pure AA and the guy I bought him and others off as cows with calves at foot must have had a hell of a bull as the majority of them grew really really well. But as a AA, he doesn't have the plum bottom.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Give the auctioneer a ring and ask if he can handle him and what ppk he would expect of it...he might even sell well in the cull cow section at Carlisle
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Basically the plan. Not keen on Red markets, no come back, but then there isn't when you get that dodgy grade/weight on the hook. Would need to keep 3 weeks to sell at Carlisle to get a TB test, but agree on the idea and I think he might be over 30 months, but not sure.
FordFarmer
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- Location
- Devon
I saw two jasper 6 wheelers and drags heading back from N-Devon yesterday, stuffed with what was presumably lambs from Smolton, wish us farmers had a consistent benchmark to aim for instead of it being like a day on the stock markets..
bread and jam
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- Location
- Herefordshire
how much will it cost you to tb test, how much will it cost you to keep 3 more weeks. personally send him to a red market and put it down to a lesson learnt.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Won't be cheap keeping an 820 kilo beast for 3 weeks!
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Your commission must be low in your marts.With us a £1300 beast costs £19 DW against £59 liveweight.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
If over 30 months forget selling him in the live ring
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Vet time (£120ish/hour) plus call out I think. So too much when I have my herd test on the 17th. Agree with the sell and lesson learned, just looking for the lessor of the evils
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Commission on a big bullock with us is maximum £39 plus £1 insurance
I'm adding in my haulage bill when going deadweight...I deliver my own in liveweight
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
How do you work that out when you take haulage etc into consideration??
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I've worked it out
sheepwise
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- Location
- SW Scotland
I deliver mine both live and dead and there is a similar cost in doing so.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Yea but I have to get a wagon in to send mine dead...that's why it's only £17 more to sell live (for me)
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
With Haulage not often much change out of £40 DW. DOn't know the commission LW, but guessing 3.5% so £45 plus levies not including my time to haul him in (I'm quite local), stand about and chat, see him sold, Bacon sandwich unless @Goneupthehill has a day out to see me sell him and gets a round in
**Edit - don't think there is a cap on commission at Wigton, but I have to check.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
All in ( excluding clipping ) is about £50 head from here to the North East for deadweight