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kfpben

kfpben

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Location
Mid Hampshire
neilo said:
Rugby is always pretty good for an average price, which would make me question the accuracy of the scales perhaps?
It matters not when selling, as price per head usually works out much the same, but for comparing marts from reports only......
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Good point. It’s between Ashford and Rugby I think. Usually I sell at Salisbury but for a wagon load it’s worth going further afield.
 
Boydvalley

Boydvalley

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Location
Bath
kfpben said:
Good point. It’s between Ashford and Rugby I think. Usually I sell at Salisbury but for a wagon load it’s worth going further afield.
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The problem with market reports is you don't see the stock. I always try to look at the spread in each weight range. Salisbury does have a big variation in stock coming out of the forest. I find if you stock is good it stands out and you do ok but the averages don't shine. Same with Cirencester at the moment because their catchment area was badly hit by the drought and the lambs haven't until recently been that well finished.

Good luck where ever you choice. I had 195.5p/kg at Frome today stand on from last week.
 
neilo

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Boydvalley said:
The problem with market reports is you don't see the stock. I always try to look at the spread in each weight range. Salisbury does have a big variation in stock coming out of the forest. I find if you stock is good it stands out and you do ok but the averages don't shine. Same with Cirencester at the moment because their catchment area was badly hit by the drought and the lambs haven't until recently been that well finished.

Good luck where ever you choice. I had 195.5p/kg at Frome today stand on from last week.
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After Banbury closed in 1998, I used to sell at a small local market at Andoversford in Glos. They only ever had a few hundred lambs there but they generally sold as well as anywhere.
A large local estate had a great idea of ditching the mules they'd always had, and stocking was some fancy new (for the Cotswolds) things called Romneys. They would winter everything on roots, in full fleece, then turn up in the market with 250 or so muddy, woolly, poor lambs and flood the market with them. The rest of the lambs would still sell readily, but the market average would often drop 20 p/kg in the report.

Those lambs would have coloured a lot of local farmers’ opinions on Romneys for many years.:censored:
 

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