When would you normally finish selling them? Hopefully you haven't brought them all lately?
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- leicestershire
Just had a text from rugby wanting export spec hogs due to better than expected demand. Talking of 2.10 region for them.
450 but don’t normally send many until end of April. Busy lambing for a few weeks.
- Location
- South Molton
@gone up the hill will be he just loves the adrenalin rush of danger!
sherg
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- Location
- shropshire
livestock 1
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I have a fair lot of hoggs here but less than usual which I had thought was a wrong decision 700 ish. We will pull more gimmers out to keep if the trade is bad and cull harder at the other end. If trade is reasonable then we will sell as normal which is probably the most likely outcome here not because the price is likely to be good but because we don’t really expect to get a fortune for them in any case. There won’t be a fantastic amount of hoggs kept over due to dear store prices and recent poor returns apart from the big Hogg dealers. They keep bigger numbers each year and some have in the high tens of thousands of them. However they are still moving them. I didn’t buy any i just have what I couldn’t shift easily as stores.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
No I agree 90 odd quids nice..will balance the scales
Lot less hoggets here. With good trade we have been selling earlier than normal. What we have left are smaller Hoggs for Ramadan. All bought by end of November 19. Happy to sit on as they have done well. Only thing to add is that we would have gambled buying some framed hoggs to feed on hoppers this last 10 days but will not bother now so if some store lamb sales are not on perhaps those numbers might not be coming forward??? and will remain on farm as stores and struggle to finish this season. Will this lighten numbers i wonder, defo not pulling ewe lambs to sell .
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Im not worried about getting the virus but I stress im taking every sensible precaution like staying 2 meters apart/ washing hands/wearing gloves etc when putting fuel in and so on.
As of last night Devon only had 91 confirmed cases out of a population of some 800'000 so there is more chance of getting knocked down crossing the street than getting the virus.
On the price front, local collection centre prices are around the 1.85/88 a kilo for hogs today.
any idea how many actual cases Devon has ? no nor does anyone
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Confirmed cases are people who may need medical treatment.
Will be more of course but they will not be ill enough to think they need medical treatment.
Somerset confirmed cases are also very low.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Dropped my ‘huge’ pen of Springers at Welshpool with a reserve just now. Only a couple of rows of hoggs/lambs in. Market deserted apart from staff and concrete all spotless as only a couple of unloading bays been used.
Drove home past Wynnstay, who have someone at the gate wearing a mask, and RVT, which has all the gates closed to stop entry but are open for business. All a bit surreal.
Drove home past Wynnstay, who have someone at the gate wearing a mask, and RVT, which has all the gates closed to stop entry but are open for business. All a bit surreal.
- Location
- nottingham
Foyle
Angus and clean -6p
Cows -20p
Got 6 booked for this week what to do.....?
Angus and clean -6p
Cows -20p
Got 6 booked for this week what to do.....?
- Location
- North of Perth
Would send them, I don't think its going to get any better
You're a brave man if you bring them back, risking scab and maybe the virus. Hopefully there will be a good trade not many numbers about.
I would still go with them imo. If they would stick a month then maybe hang on see what happens. But short term I could see it dropping a little more hopefully not a lot more tho.
- Location
- nottingham
Think I will let them go and rest will stand a bit yet