Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
And surprise surprise- they don't like it !
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And surprise surprise- they don't like it !
I dropped of lambs this week to kill and asked how the export was going and was told fine no probs everything was going through
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Yea , welcome to the world of sheep farming for the last 30 years , most of us with commercial sheep have only been covering costs for years .Be nice to have a 30-40% margin on every lamb sold
Brexit: Lamb exporter to EU 'making virtually nothing'
Powys meat processing plant warns the extra cost of selling into the EU could mean major job losses.www.bbc.co.uk
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I guess what I meant was and I might be wrong with my thinking and tell me if I am but if they are not making nothing will they not just hit the farmers price? Buy there lambs cheaper?
Has i agree with you in many ways, we still need them to make money and would I be right in thinking the more they can earn from them the more they want which would mean more pay us??
If they can’t make any money they will just give us less for our lambs.
That's what I thought...hence why I said not good
- Location
- North of Perth
Abp perth clean £3.85 AA £3.95 cows £2.80
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
Doesn’t work like that If the lambs aren’t there... otherwise they’d of been doing that for the last month not loosing money for the last month .. supply and demand they call it [emoji6]
It is scarcity that is driving the trade at the moment. The retailer and the end consumer have to get used to this price and it has to be seen as the normal price for lamb to enable us the producer to make a decent margin.
Yeah but it's there supply and demand too.
Also most people won't work for nothing....
Totally agree but they will always pay us has little has possible soon has more lambs come along down comes the price, if lamb numbers stay where they are then these prices might stay
Averaged £1522 for 8 cattle at dunbia this week. That was on £3.73
What happens when lambs are there?
george 600
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Getting £4.10 in foyle for tesco Angus next week15p out of AA
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
You don't honestly think processors are making 30-40% margins do you? They will be getting squeezed by their customers constantly, and running on very tight margins, which is why they need massive throughput to keep running.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Yes, I don't think the processors are the enemy here (ABP aside, possibly). They need throughput which requires producers. It's their supermarket paymasters that are the problem here. Most couldn't give a toss where they get their stuff, as long as they can make a margin on it.
livestock 1
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This 100% ^
casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
Forward today 2481 head of stock comprising of 298 Cattle, 2183 Sheep & 115 Pigs.
Prime Cattle:
A handful less on offer but an exceptionally good show with best quality once again very much sought after. Steers overall would be marginally less on the week. Once again half of the cattle sold for 240ppkg plus with 34 beating 260ppkg.
Top Price Heifer – 283.5ppkg for Limousin X from TG & EV Warriner, Pickering purchased by R Pearson & son, Bradford.
Best Grossing Heifer - £1723.05 for Limousin X from J & J Mather, Nenthorn purchased by Bennetts Roast House, Morley.
Top Price Steer – 263.5ppkg for Limousin X from Upper Coton Farms, Northampton purchased by R Pearson & Son.
Best Grossing Steer - £1755.92 for Limousin X from C Moralee & Son, Langley Park purchased by R Pearson & Son.
Prime Young Bulls
A better show than last week with trade for better sorts remaining strong. Black and whites would be steadier.
Top Price Bull – 257.5ppkg for Limousin X from Dale Farms, Saltmarshe purchased by R Pearson & Son, Bradford.
Best Grossing Bull - £1712.38 for Limousin X from AS & SM Kemp & Son, Whitwell purchased by Bennetts Roast House Ltd.
Prime Lambs
A fantastic show of lambs forward especially on a week where the trade has built a little bit of resistance, perhaps the Hoggs just got a little bit too dear too quick. However we are only comparing the trade on the past couple of weeks. On the year a very good trade, in previous years we’d of been over the moon with yesterdays trade. A per head average of £113.94.
Just a little thought, I can’t remember but a few of you maybe can, a wise man told me yesterday in the Hoggs season of 1992, 28 years ago, Hoggs were still making £100 per head.
Back to today and another good show of quality forward with a lot more of the renowned Thirsk weight coming forward. Top of the day was from Mr Ali Sutcliffe, you’ll have to spend pence per kilo this week Ali. And Jojo remaining top of the tree in pounds per head at £151.50.
Top Price Per KG – 332ppkg for Beltex X from AR Sutcliffe, Carlton In Cleveland purchased by Mr A Atkinson on behalf of R Agar, Ilkey.
Top Price Per Head - £151.50 for Beltex X from JM Andrews, Hustwaite purchased by Mr k Kelly on behalf of N Bramall & Son, Oxspring.
Prime Pigs
Top Price Per KG - 90ppkg from East Durham College, Houghall purchased by Buffalo Produce, Brampton.
Best Grossing - £113.43 from RE Phillips & Son, Warlaby, purchased by Taste Tradition Ltd, Melmerby.
Sows & Boars
Top Price Per KG – 25ppkg from H & C Blacken & Son, Wormald Green purchased CR Horner, Kilburn.
Top Price Per Head - £65.40 from RW & EM Ellis, Easingwold purchased By Castle Bank Butchers, Witton Le Wear.
Kepac down 45p kg for next week