Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Shebb90

Member
Location
Devon
Off the clock, about 820 head entered and unless it was very poor for its age etc trade would have been as dear if not dearer than the previous week, no end of smallish steers £1080/1100 head and pen after pen of stronger cattle anything from there to late £1300's and that would be both steers and heifers, topped out at £1420 for a 2 year old Char steer.

Stirk trade was much dearer on the week, esp for some poor animals, i saw perhaps the dearest Fri steer sold in the stirk ring ever, it was about 16 months old, worse than a P grade ( if that was possible ) narrow behind as a pen, was a growthy steer to be fair, made £675! no end of suckled char steers £970/80 etc, not that many good cattle about in this ring thou and i would say myself that it was possible one of the poorest entry's quality wise for many weeks but all sold to very strong bidding.
What the thought on trade going forward? Clean cattle price? Got some that we would normally sell middle march but tempted now.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
No, because our government have allowed EU meat to come in until April 2021 without Vet check or export Heath certificates, so the import flow has been unaffected so far.
Thats even better news, so our current good beef price isnt to do with reduced imports and should go higher after april when getting meat into the country becomes harder/more expensive.
 

Shebb90

Member
Location
Devon
Trade will remain strong all year i reckon, whats going to knock it? Numbers are short etc , end of lockdown and people going back to eating out (cow beef or foreign beef) might pull uk beef back abit perhaps.
Would agree. Only thing that might hit it a little in the next Month to turn out is the price of feed and straw maybe?
 

Lemon curd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire dales
Except for farmers with multiple new tractors and multi million
pound farms dont tend to be sheep farmers.
Red meat is more affordable as a percentage of peoples wages than it has been
for years .If they want mainly factory farmed ,soya hungry, bland chicken then that
option is available too.
Agree, beef and sheepmeat is not too expensive, chicken and pork is too cheap
 
Location
Devon
Sorry, will just watch and read

@boyobach Good to see someone new posting on this thread.

Do not stop posting just because someone disagrees with you, the whole point of a forum like this is to discuss all views on issues ie meat prices for example!

Btw i do not agree with you ref beef and lamb being too expensive, subs will be gone in 5/6 years but in that time no end of extra rules/red tape and costs will be added by Boris to keep Carrie on side, so unless farm gate prices rise a lot more from now there will be a very small British beef and lamb industry going forwards.

Every other industry increases costs when their own costs go up and farmers need to get into this mind set as well!
 
Location
Devon
What the thought on trade going forward? Clean cattle price? Got some that we would normally sell middle march but tempted now.

I would not like to advise, with the way things are anything could happen, a few buyers have commented that the dearest cattle they normally buy over the whole year is in Jan.

If you have a few to sell why not pick out a few of the best and try them, if your not happy with the price or want to hedge your bets you can then hold the rest and then sell them like normal in March.
 

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