Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Dry hoggs were 150-180 so good gimmers will be 200 unless there’s a real drop in price. Lambs are getting dearer this week so hopefully a bit of momentum.
We were just discussing this tonight. We reckon our early lamb outfits from our old ewes which we kill as their lambs go away are grossing £30/ewe more than last year. Lambs a very similar trade at 690p for U grades but cast ewes £30 to £40 above last year. Costs probably less than last year too as they have eaten less creep with the good grass growing spring. Lambs and hoggs have firmed again in the markets today so lets hope last year's trade is maintained going forward. If so, I can see breeding sheep being a fair trade again.
 

aangus

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Location
cumbria
Oh FFS. I havent sold owt since Febuary. Its a price tracker thread,and at least i put some prices up and the trade as i see it....................................and besides,i bought a little beast today and nobody gave me any luck.
Is there really a need to put prices up, when anyone can go onto a mart web site and get that information
 
Location
Devon
Milk price needs be 50p beef price needs be £5.00 corn costs machinery Diesel Labour and you know what and why it should be ? People have worked for f all for too long and people have eaten to cheaply for too long time it changes so much work goes into farming not just bloody Chuck corn in a trough and done ! Time farming earnt some money
£5 for beef is now not enough.

£6.60 for lambs is not enough either.

Beef needs to be £6 kilo and lambs £8 kilo + deadweight. ( just to standstill with 12 months ago )

Been told feed is going up yet another £35/40 ton any day now so on the back of recent rises that will mean since Jan it has gone up by £180/90 ton... just not feasible to feed it to either beef cattle or lambs at current prime prices.

If the feed price jumps the above then it will make Fert look cheap even at £750 tonne!

Store/stirk prices are being driven by a very late dose of grass fever but what the hell is going to happen come autumn when looking down the barrel at a very long winter of very high feed/ general input costs??
 

Optimus

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
£5 for beef is now not enough.

£6.60 for lambs is not enough either.

Beef needs to be £6 kilo and lambs £8 kilo + deadweight. ( just to standstill with 12 months ago )

Been told feed is going up yet another £35/40 ton any day now so on the back of recent rises that will mean since Jan it has gone up by £180/90 ton... just not feasible to feed it to either beef cattle or lambs at current prime prices.

If the feed price jumps the above then it will make Fert look cheap even at £750 tonne!

Store/stirk prices are being driven by a very late dose of grass fever but what the hell is going to happen come autumn when looking down the barrel at a very long winter of very high feed/ general input costs??
Which feed is going up? Arable lads were having a melt down earlier on the combinables thread . cos wheat had dropped🤣🤣
 

aangus

Member
Location
cumbria
£5 for beef is now not enough.

£6.60 for lambs is not enough either.

Beef needs to be £6 kilo and lambs £8 kilo + deadweight. ( just to standstill with 12 months ago )

Been told feed is going up yet another £35/40 ton any day now so on the back of recent rises that will mean since Jan it has gone up by £180/90 ton... just not feasible to feed it to either beef cattle or lambs at current prime prices.

If the feed price jumps the above then it will make Fert look cheap even at £750 tonne!

Store/stirk prices are being driven by a very late dose of grass fever but what the hell is going to happen come autumn when looking down the barrel at a very long winter of very high feed/ general input costs??
I wouldn't like to be buying young calves at the moment or suckled calves come backend
 
Location
Devon
Which feed is going up? Arable lads were having a melt down earlier on the combinables thread . cos wheat had dropped🤣🤣
Both beef and sheep feeds apparently.

Not impressed and there will be a phone call to the rep and he will not like what i have to say!

I cannot see any reason to jump it again by so much after the recent massive increase given that grain prices have not moved at all since the last rise.

Those boys on the grain thread would have had a meltdown weeks ago if they were now selling grain below the prices they made 12 months ago like what has been/is the case with the sheep job!
 

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