Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Hawthorn said:

Yeh plenty do personally I think they do better ad -lib on turnips

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They utilise the plant better strip grazing, the tops give the fibre and belly fill and the bulbs give the energy and protein if I remember rightly, if you just leave them too it they’ll eat all the leaf in first few days then just pig out on rocket fuel for the rest the time and sh!t half it back out again

Money from the first of this years lamb in the bank. Happy enough with that, more than I thought when the rams went out in July.
FJ

Three Hereford bulls that came as part of a liquorice allsorts load of cattleat the end of September. Nothing fancy to look at, bottom bull looked like it’s mother could have been part Dexter, it had done all it’s growing.

Full of bull(s) said:

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Three Hereford bulls that came as part of a liquorice allsorts load of cattleat the end of September. Nothing fancy to look at, bottom bull looked like it’s mother could have been part Dexter, it had done all it’s growing.

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I think I'm being really thick, but which column shows the weight?

ImLost said:

I think I'm being really thick, but which column shows the weight?

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Next to date of birth. 596,554,482kg

Full of bull(s) said:

Next to date of birth. 596,554,482kg

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Any pictures of the bottom one before it went?

farmer james said:

Money from the first of this years lamb in the bank. Happy enough with that, more than I thought when the rams went out in July.
FJ

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I think you have been robbed! They would have made £20-£30 more in a live market................£1500.........

ImLost said:

Any pictures of the bottom one before it went?

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No. Not a daft bull really, but deep bellied and short coupled. R-4 at a guess, 52% on old trim, weighed well compared to ten minutes before loading

Full of bull(s) said:

No. Not a daft bull really, but deep bellied and short coupled. R-4 at a guess, 52% on old trim, weighed well compared to ten minutes before loading

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Better than our artists impression of a "quality" Angus then ?

jendan said:

I think you have been robbed! They would have made £20-£30 more in a live market................£1500.........

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Possibly, Possibly Not.........,,,,,mine are indoor lambs with dark heads so don’t tend to sell as well live and I am a long way from any markets selling any number of springers two weeks ago.
It is a better price than I budgeted on and has gone up for the next lot.
FJ

jendan said:

Better than our artists impression of a "quality" Angus then ?

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Don’t go comparing Angus and Herefords you’ll start a breed war

farmer james said:

Possibly, Possibly Not.........,,,,,mine are indoor lambs with dark heads so don’t tend to sell as well live and I am a long way from any markets selling any number of springers two weeks ago.
It is a better price than I budgeted on and has gone up for the next lot.
FJ

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and they were 36 ish ? so a bit on light side for big money

andybk said:

and they were 36 ish ? so a bit on light side for big money

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More like 40s.

jendan said:

More like 40s.

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just said average weights 18kg , and nsl would kill out at 50% i would have thought

cull ewes sedge friday :
Cull Ewes and Rams (1243) – Cull Ewe & Ram Sales going forward will be on Friday Afternoons – Next Sale Friday 16th April A larger entry of 1243 cull ewes and rams forward met an astonishing trade, when prices jumped even higher – the best of the ewes rose another £10/head. Best of the ewes to £200, achieved by both H Groves and JB Peace. Others to £171 from Devon Farming; £170 from WL Samways; £169 from RG Drew & Sons and E Gilbert; £166 from Devon Farming; £165 from J Sprake & Partners, DW & PA Retter and SHA Coombes; £163.50 from MJ Knowles and £163 from SJ Cheacker. Cull rams to £194 from SJ Cheacker. Others to £173 from CC Hayman; £171 from F Hill; £170 from EJ & HM Hull and £163 from SJ Cheacker. Overall average a staggering £120.21.

Goats (25) – Goat Sales going forward will be on Friday Afternoons – Next Sale Friday 16th April A small entry of 25 goats sold to a firm trade once again. Cull nannies to £165 from Verney Enterprises, who sold others at £140 and £129. Overall average £101.96. Breeding Ewes & Rams (18) – Saturday Sale 10am A small entry of 18 Poll Dorset and Dorset Horn breeding ewes and rams sold to a reasonable trade. Rams to £250 for a 4T Poll Dorset from T Wybrew. Ewe hoggs to £146 from PJ Thorne. 4T’s to £132 from KP & KT Goodfellow. Overall average £145.50. Couples (228E & 331L)

– Saturday Sale 10am A larger entry of couples, when 228 ewes with 331 lambs were forward. Trade remains very buoyant for all presented, when there was a real fizzle in the trade for the best. Best of the doubles to £280 (£93.33/life) from R Golledge. Others to £248 (£82.67/life) from GR Barnett and CG Newman Ltd; £238 (£79.33/life) from S & J Willis; £230 (£76.67/life) from C & S Sully Farming and £220 (£73.33/life) from S & J Willis and D & E Whittle. Singles to £235 (£117.50/life) from RJ & MA Curtis. Others to £200 (£100/life) from R Golledge; £190 (£95/life) from Robert Eversden Ltd, EG Chubb and RJ & MA Curtis and £188 (£94/life) from S & J Willis. Triplets to £222 (£55.50/life) from J Wyatt. Another price of note was a bunch of 3 ewes with 5 lambs which sold to £220

Sedgemore monday finished mart
Auctioneer’s Comments:
Over double the entry of 1370 hoggs sold to a similar strong trade for all presented. The small proportion of lighter weights sold to 325ppk from C Reasons. Others 316, 309 and 308 from MP & DM Hine; 312ppk from W Johnson & Son; 310 and 307ppk from AF & RD Tucker & Sons and 307ppk from PD & SA Godfrey and SJ Williams.
Heavier hoggs sold to £164, £154.50, £153, £152.50, £151 and £150 (2x) from MP & DM Hine. Others £155 from SM & JV Parsons & Jones; £154 from RR Creed & Son; £153.50 from TH Dyer; £151 and £150 from Foxhollow Farm; £151 from AJ Crabb and £150 from MB & KN Crabb and MJ & GM Summers. Overall average £140.85.

A smaller entry of 491 lambs sold to a stronger trade for all forward. The best sold to 372 and 266ppk from D Day. Others 370ppk from DA Kidner & Son; 364 and 361ppk from JH Waterman & Sons; 361 and 360ppk from MJ & VM Pile; 361ppk from EJ Vickery & Son and 360ppk from EW Ganfield and PJ Salvidge & Son.
Heavier lambs sold to £149.50 and £145 from GJ Cottrell. Others £148 from L Heywood and W Land; £147.50 from TJ Mitchell; £146 from EW Ganfield and £145 from D Day and T Hull. Overall average £138.33.

Full of bull(s) said:

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Three Hereford bulls that came as part of a liquorice allsorts load of cattleat the end of September. Nothing fancy to look at, bottom bull looked like it’s mother could have been part Dexter, it had done all it’s growing.

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Selling live

Martyn said:

I have said they are sorry to here that but never happened befor the only animal we have owner that decided at three years old it would scour so bad and loose all it weight that we had to cull him, turned from a 4k young bull to a £400 cull. Plus hundreds on vet bills! Offspring seam ok, but now bought a AA to replace it.

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Sounds like johnes

andybk said:

just said average weights 18kg , and nsl would kill out at 50% i would have thought

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Good nsl will do more than fifty percent, no gut room

JSmith said:

Good nsl will do more than fifty percent, no gut room

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thats what i thought so an 18kg lamb is going to be 36 kg and under , ie pretty light , which would explain value

d williams said:

Those lambs are the ones that’s paid the best last couple years
Spring grass and their away

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You can’t make anything of decent sized batches of hoggs without feeding them.
Yes decent keep or a decent dairy farm can be ok if you don’t get carried away with numbers but generally hoggs that have had little to eat through the winter end up nothing. I used to send a lot away on keep locally not the best ground and sell them April onwards. They would sell ok for the ethnic trade and were fit but never weighed as well as properly fed hoggs.The job has changed now they want properly finished sheep so no point in bothering. In a lot of ways a sheep is what it eats and eating poor grass through the winter costs a lot to put right later on.