Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

Woolless · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Yes just got caught with some store cattle and hoggs around the time of the first lockdown
They were often adrift one week hoggs were only averaging less than 1.50 I think I av 1.47 that week and a neighbour rang up wanting me to complain he only av 1.20 I felt a lot better after he’d been on the phone, wasn’t sure what moaning was going to achieve. It wasn’t just the lockdown to be fair too many hoggs had been stacked up for one of the festivals and there was a lot of uncertainty around then.

Was this late March? I took a trailer load of empty ewes to St Boswells that Monday. Trailers stacked up nothing moving. The drivers said there might not even be a sale as buyers had no orders. A lot of standing about head scratching. I got hold of JC but he spoke in riddles (standard!). Overheard young auctioneer saying he would be 'raffling' the ewes. I ended up taking mine home. Hogg trade well back, ewes were ok and I should have sold them but everything pointed the other way

Anymulewilldo · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Ha well in around then I had stuck my neck out for a fair lot of sheep I had bought kind of right money so just took it on the chin really

The ones I sold broke even. Just… it was the way I found out that the buyer was paying significantly more elsewhere than what my auctioneer had arranged. Fortnight later was back making good money.
I’d hate too be an auctioneer… especially one who has too deal with me!

livestock 1 · Nov 16, 2021

Woolless said:
Was this late March? I took a trailer load of empty ewes to St Boswells that Monday. Trailers stacked up nothing moving. The drivers said there might not even be a sale as buyers had no orders. A lot of standing about head scratching. I got hold of JC but he spoke in riddles (standard!). Overheard young auctioneer saying he would be 'raffling' the ewes. I ended up taking mine home. Hogg trade well back, ewes were ok and I should have sold them but everything pointed the other way

I think it was May

Woolless · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
I think it was May

Aye, it's not all been plain sailing, even this year.

livestock 1 · Nov 16, 2021

Woolless said:
Aye, it's not all been plain sailing, even this year.

Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

Jimmywick · Nov 16, 2021

Riggy said:
I was told £2.90

Full of bull(s) said:
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Today at Northallerton. All just straight R grades, the two Salers were overage slightly, the bull a bad doer better gone at that price. The heifers including overage I would estimate around 445p dead equivalent

The bull has ended up at my mates will ask what he did

Woolless · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

I've seen a few pigs on Faceache moaning about the lack of butchers too

muleman · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

Too cheap more like.

Jimmywick · Nov 16, 2021

Farmers moaning never ?????

Jimmywick · Nov 16, 2021

Full of bull(s) said:
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Today at Northallerton. All just straight R grades, the two Salers were overage slightly, the bull a bad doer better gone at that price. The heifers including overage I would estimate around 445p dead equivalent

I see by the tags you have stores etc from my end !!

Skintagain · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

Aren’t they dickheads

livestock 1 · Nov 16, 2021

Skintagain said:
Aren’t they dickheads

Have you seen that too?

Full of bull(s) · Nov 16, 2021

Jimmywick said:
The bull has ended up at my mates will ask what he did

It would come an R3, not a bad looking little bull just putting very little weight on. With feed where it is passengers are a luxury none of us can afford..

JSmith · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

Be same ones that would moan like feck if they went back to £60 a piece!! Like you say, they need to do some truthful calculations on what it costs just to stand still an that’s without dare I say it….paying yourself a wage!! Fecking jokers

Skintagain · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Have you seen that too?

No but I can well believe it

Macsky · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

Walked out of the mart earlier this year with a man who always has a complaint about his prices, he had hit one of the later store sales this year and made the most he ever had, I was wondering what the moan would be...... “these buyers are crazy spending that money on lambs!”

These buyers could well double their money on these lambs! Some folk aren’t happy without a complaint.

Worked with another man once that would barely speak all day.....unless you had a right moan about something, then you could barely get away from him

Full of bull(s) · Nov 16, 2021

Jimmywick said:
I see by the tags you have stores etc from my end !!

They come from all over, the Lims had come from Derbyshire originally, spent a year near Penrith and I bought them at J36!

ford4000 · Nov 16, 2021

livestock 1 said:
Seen a few ‘farmers’ moaning lamb is too dear at £3 live on social media
Think they need a calculator in my view

TA few years ago some "trendy" farmers on social media were saying lamb was too expensive and we needed to lower our costs ! Claimed it was losing market share against other meats if it was too expensive.
I said it was supply and demand, if it was too expensive people wouldn't buy it and the price would fall.... Well the price has gone up a lot since then!! And presumably people are still eating it.....

livestock 1 · Nov 16, 2021

Macsky said:
Walked out of the mart earlier this year with a man who always has a complaint about his prices, he had hit one of the later store sales this year and made the most he ever had, I was wondering what the moan would be...... “these buyers are crazy spending that money on lambs!”

These buyers could well double their money on these lambs! Some folk aren’t happy without a complaint.

Worked with another man once that would barely speak all day.....unless you had a right moan about something, then you could barely get away from him

I sat next to one like that in a mart cafe one day
The only table with spare seats I sharp found out why

Jimmywick · Nov 16, 2021

People pay £13 quid for twenty fags when ten years they were probably £6.50 a pack roughly so they have doubled and people still buy them so moaning about the price of food that’s been produced to cheaply by stupid people me included for too long is the reason we HAVE TO BE PAID ALOT MORE ! Who the hell wants to work for nothing whether ur a beef farmer sheep farmer dairy farmer or just work for someone the thing is those days are gone finished ! Food is going to be dearer peiole are going to be paid more overheads will be more it’s the new normal , but the big question is WHY should everyone work for peanuts so Tarquin and family can go to the Caribbean and have two new BMWs on the drive ? No such thing as too much for products now with the way expenses have gone ! Think about it 10 years ago can of coke 40p now it’s like 90p bag of crisps 40p now they are like 90p the rest has gone up time for milk meat etc to all go up a gear als no one will do it !

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