Walk in any city in the uk walk around ten minutes looking at people and you can answer that question yourself without any help
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- North Yorkshire
No it’s a bit of a mystery to me how they work it out but never seems to get over £32. Sometimes they seem to charge more for less, overall it’s pretty competitive. Heavyweights are falling rapidly from favour, if they had weight 620 they would have been 20p less, over 680 it would have been 30-40p. Didn’t get there in time to see bulls sold, though averages in the report would say less money
- Location
- Cheshire
That is a good commission rate at that. Mate sold some cull cows in Bakewell the other week and commission came too £57 each avg. he wasn’t best pleased, made good money but the offtakes seem a bit steep.
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Hellish dear bagshaws
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
Commission in our local mart is 3.95% for prime cattle with no cap . Levies, etc another £7.18. Takes £70 - £80 to sell a good beast. Think most Scottish marts will be similar. Direct to abattoir, deductions are £19.66 per head. You really can only sell real premium cattle live up here.
- Location
- central scotland
The Jolly Farmer
Member
Commission is not a cost, its an investment in your future.Now now everyone , no complaining over commission rates on here
- Location
- West Wales
Glass always full type of guy hey @The Jolly Farmer ?
- Location
- Cheshire
True, but some marts take the P!
- Location
- N.Lincs
I find it 'interesting' looking at the deductions on various mart pay sheets that folks put up on here.
Some marts take the P more than others
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Even the premium cattle are travelling south of the border there was a wagon load in Northallerton yesterday from two sellers
- Location
- Hereford
Markets aren't cheap to run ......
Must cost a fortune, just the wash out must cost a hell of a lot.
livestock 1
Member
There was a write up of a fella in the Scottish Farmer saying Scottish beef had lost its premium the fella said a few things that I thought was silly
livestock 1
Member
They will have had a couple of better years with commission revenue
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Hell of a two years
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
neither are farms…..
- Location
- central scotland
Don’t tend to read the Scottish farmer but if that was a Darlington advertisement I can guarantee Scott has said lots of silly things in his lifetime
.....and I was there at a lot of them 
........ You should have heard the grace he made for my wedding .......nearly as good as the best mans speech 
livestock 1
Member
A few months back I was having a bit crack with a auctioneer we were talking about how good the prices were but we both agreed if they dropped there would be problems
livestock 1
Member
No I haven’t even started about that statementDon’t tend to read the Scottish farmer but if that was a Darlington advertisement I can guarantee Scott has said lots of silly things in his lifetime