Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Hopefully farmers will have the money to buy them or more of us suckler men will either have to look into finishing our own stock or get out of them altogether and rear dairy beef.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Bonkers trade in Hereford store lamb sale . Six or eight people bidding on each pen going up in pound increments. No Brexit worries it seems. Dearest trade by far probably ever seen.
2010 Prime hoggs topped at £102.50 /54.5 kg and averaged £85.40, 199.8 p/kg. Up 10p/kg on this time last yr. 4157 Store hoggs topped at £90 and averaged at £70
 
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Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
They are weighed straight off the field, then 1ish hour to the market scales (n)
That’s your problem then, transport wobbles their stomachs and accelerates the $hitting out process. They $hit out the most in the first 2 hours, after that they slow down how much they $hit out.
I’ve read on here a fair bit that people don’t believe market scales, be lucky your market has scales as some don’t, the vital mistake most people make with lambs hoggetts and older sheep is not bringing them in the night before for them to $hit out and then weigh them after they’ve been in 12 hours, I bet the market scales will be extremely close to your scales.
 

organic

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Powys
HEREFORD STORE HOGGS
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4157
Auctioneer
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Greg Christopher
A tremendous day to be a vendor with one of the dearest January store hoggett trades in memory.
An excellent yard of hoggs with quality exceptional for January. Men travelling from all parts of
the country with a very strong Welsh contingent, the south west and throughout the Midlands and
locality, 6000-7000 could have been sold with no effect on price with several men going home
empty or half full.
Weather and the keep situation playing a huge roll in this trade. Hoggs to £90 for a strong bunch
of Texel cross hoggs, exceptional Welsh ram hoggs to £90!!! Plenty of sheep sold from £80 to
£87 with over 600 trading over £80.
A super run of shapely Texel cross hoggs from G D Jones, Portway to £84.50, £83.20, £83 and
£79. A strong bunch of Suffolk cross wethers to £85 for a very deserving cause. Suffolk cross
ram hoggs to £85. Farming hoggs very animated throughout and trading £72 to £80 throughout
the sale, no end of well bred Texel cross hoggs £75 to £80 with trade remaining exceptional
throughout.

Medium keeping hoggs very sharp and seeing these £5-£8 dearer than pre Christmas trade, well bred bunches £66 to £70, harder bred stronger sorts £60 to £65. Longer keeping hoggs the same story with the better bred sorts to £64 depending on potential, harder bred sorts £52 to £58, with
plainer sorts £40 to £50 and very small hill type hoggs in the £30's
.
Ram hoggs as dear as the clean hoggs, to £90 twice for Texel cross and Welsh, other strong Mules
to £87, a good bunch of Texel cross sorts to £85.20, all strength £74 to £80. Farming sorts all £64
to £72 to include a bunch of 66 Welsh ram hoggs to £70.20. Competition for the ram hoggs
excellent throughout with smaller sorts £50 to £60, very little all day less than £50. An
exceptional day's trading with 6000 plus hoggs needed for next week, please take advantage of
this trade
 

sherg

Member
Location
shropshire
That’s your problem then, transport wobbles their stomachs and accelerates the $hitting out process. They $hit out the most in the first 2 hours, after that they slow down how much they $hit out.
I’ve read on here a fair bit that people don’t believe market scales, be lucky your market has scales as some don’t, the vital mistake most people make with lambs hoggetts and older sheep is not bringing them in the night before for them to $hit out and then weigh them after they’ve been in 12 hours, I bet the market scales will be extremely close to your scales.
Our local market is on a Monday we always try and sort on the Thursday or Friday before and try and put the lambs back on the field they came from its very rare that I'm disappointed with the weights then
 

Shebb90

Member
Location
Devon
HEREFORD STORE HOGGS
-
4157
Auctioneer
-
Greg Christopher
A tremendous day to be a vendor with one of the dearest January store hoggett trades in memory.
An excellent yard of hoggs with quality exceptional for January. Men travelling from all parts of
the country with a very strong Welsh contingent, the south west and throughout the Midlands and
locality, 6000-7000 could have been sold with no effect on price with several men going home
empty or half full.
Weather and the keep situation playing a huge roll in this trade. Hoggs to £90 for a strong bunch
of Texel cross hoggs, exceptional Welsh ram hoggs to £90!!! Plenty of sheep sold from £80 to
£87 with over 600 trading over £80.
A super run of shapely Texel cross hoggs from G D Jones, Portway to £84.50, £83.20, £83 and
£79. A strong bunch of Suffolk cross wethers to £85 for a very deserving cause. Suffolk cross
ram hoggs to £85. Farming hoggs very animated throughout and trading £72 to £80 throughout
the sale, no end of well bred Texel cross hoggs £75 to £80 with trade remaining exceptional
throughout.

Medium keeping hoggs very sharp and seeing these £5-£8 dearer than pre Christmas trade, well bred bunches £66 to £70, harder bred stronger sorts £60 to £65. Longer keeping hoggs the same story with the better bred sorts to £64 depending on potential, harder bred sorts £52 to £58, with
plainer sorts £40 to £50 and very small hill type hoggs in the £30's
.
Ram hoggs as dear as the clean hoggs, to £90 twice for Texel cross and Welsh, other strong Mules
to £87, a good bunch of Texel cross sorts to £85.20, all strength £74 to £80. Farming sorts all £64
to £72 to include a bunch of 66 Welsh ram hoggs to £70.20. Competition for the ram hoggs
excellent throughout with smaller sorts £50 to £60, very little all day less than £50. An
exceptional day's trading with 6000 plus hoggs needed for next week, please take advantage of
this trade
Would I be right in thinking that late 80's to 90 pound store lambs are killers?
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
That’s your problem then, transport wobbles their stomachs and accelerates the $hitting out process. They $hit out the most in the first 2 hours, after that they slow down how much they $hit out.
I’ve read on here a fair bit that people don’t believe market scales, be lucky your market has scales as some don’t, the vital mistake most people make with lambs hoggetts and older sheep is not bringing them in the night before for them to $hit out and then weigh them after they’ve been in 12 hours, I bet the market scales will be extremely close to your scales.

My local market is 7 miles away. The amount of weight they lose, compared to my scales, will vary depending on what the trade has been like, varying between zero and 2kg/hd in that 7 mile trip.:rolleyes:

If the trade has been poor, they miraculously lose more weight, improving the KO% and the buyers bid more per kilo. Hey presto, market report looks much improved.:whistle:
 

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