Or been dipped.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Black Isle
When they are short and they need them you can deal I'm sureI think they only pay on max of 23k (recently lifted from 22k) ... I THINK
If you put all those £180 swales together you still wouldn"t have a pen full just an odd couple of tups at 55kg+ makes a good report thou
Better horned lambs more "in spec"£140=£150+ Doubt anyone was complaining thou
We are well up 25% on the year and most round here are saying the same.
Farmerbuti
Member
Mainly texel x but had a few big Suffolks today
My April lambers scanned exactly the same as last year, March lambers were slightly back
We got 220 more triplets so probably won’t mean many more lambs sold.
Just because
Member
Friends that have plunge dipped ewes don't seem to have had much of a problem. Had a few with it but not a disaster
Hoggs were a fair trade though I think. Never had any in though.Had a few ewes in ks last night. Texel x but lean things that wouldn’t feed. £40 a piecehad some similar last week where £60 so ewes were less. A lad had some big pure texel ewes over £300 last week, reckoned they’d be £230 last night.
Also interested in this, we’ve been reducing flock numbers recently. Might pull the pin on the lambing ewe enterprise and go stores only out of the north aisles.
Certainly working right now gentleman.
Norfolk Hill Farmer
Member
Scanned empty Easy Dam and Aberfield ewes and hoggs, yesterday at Melton
- Location
- East Sussex
It would be interesting to know!
When we had Bluetongue in 2007 it was the Texel and Texel crosses that were the worst for getting it. Romneys and Southdowns were fine.
- Location
- East Sussex
The experts on Bluetongue which is basically the same vector as Schmallenberg say that pour-ons are not effective and dipping will only help for a relatively short time as the Midges come up off the ground and bite the animals on the bare skin areas underneath.
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
The midges couldn't get through the wool?
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Any farmer want to help a butcher out this Easter?
Any one who know’s me will know I’m a great supporter of the mart system and getting a fair value for stock, in most cases I have paid well over the sales averages and paid top dollar to stock my shop.
With the current inflation in the Hogg trade (I support to an extent) selling hogget/lamb over the counter has become unsustainable and to the customer unjustifiable. It is not as easy as putting the price up week on week until the price levels off. I can not continue to sell at a loss therefore will have to stop selling it altogether.
The point I’m making here is that I’m asking everyone (37 different farms) that I have supported over the last two years of buying for myself to try and support me, there must be someone who can meet me in the middle and help me out with some affordable Hoggs to keep me going until the new season.
46-50kg Hogg’s £175.00 is where I need to be at just to break even with Transport and killing costs taking that to over £210.00 a head! So you can see where I’m struggling to connect the dots when paying £200.00+ at the mart before any other costs.
Thoughts ?? Would you help him or not ?
Any one who know’s me will know I’m a great supporter of the mart system and getting a fair value for stock, in most cases I have paid well over the sales averages and paid top dollar to stock my shop.
With the current inflation in the Hogg trade (I support to an extent) selling hogget/lamb over the counter has become unsustainable and to the customer unjustifiable. It is not as easy as putting the price up week on week until the price levels off. I can not continue to sell at a loss therefore will have to stop selling it altogether.
The point I’m making here is that I’m asking everyone (37 different farms) that I have supported over the last two years of buying for myself to try and support me, there must be someone who can meet me in the middle and help me out with some affordable Hoggs to keep me going until the new season.
46-50kg Hogg’s £175.00 is where I need to be at just to break even with Transport and killing costs taking that to over £210.00 a head! So you can see where I’m struggling to connect the dots when paying £200.00+ at the mart before any other costs.
Thoughts ?? Would you help him or not ?
I can understand where you are coming from and that would be ok if he pays £175 when they drop back to £150 if thats what he can afford,on that principal you can see the thought in contract selling
