- Location
- Durham, UK
Even the very plain Holstein dairy ones are making £100 in some of the marts
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Shropshire
Think it’s more the jersey grass rats that are the issue
bean
Member
- Location
- holsworthy
Any ram prices?
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I would have said they will be getting bought from now onwards
That's what I meant in my post.
all over the place. Any thing with quality sold. Couple top breeders bought them home.
Some bargains to be had.
But they are still being reared though, whether they are going as sucklers or as stores.Not all of them, maybe have a look at my post on this thread
xbred dairy bull calves
Our Hereford crosses have been the least valuable calves this year All ours are sold privately with a premium to suck cows herds, as no holstein blood in our herd and we're mostly the same high farm as them so cows are fair hard.thefarmingforum.co.uk
I was trying to say that I don't know where this increase of dairy bred calves would come from as (correct me if I'm wrong) the dairymen would not be keeping the beef calves off the market in the past.
There maybe an increase in kiwi/Jersey bull calves in the mart with this new rule. This could help the trade on the beef calves/stores.
Another thought is with the new rules the dairy boys are going to use more sexed semen which could put a shortage in the calf sector?
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
When they going to let vendors start watching their stock sold? Completely farcical that they won’t let a dozen farmers into a cattle mart when half the country is either rioting or shopping till they drop
- Location
- Devon
South Molton market are allowing vendors in now, subject to social distancing. So it is possible. I guess it will depend on individual market set up.
South Molton sell in a ring with a decent sized area for onlookers. Sedgemoor sell in the pens (sheep) so harder to social distance?
- Location
- leicestershire
You could watch your store cattle sold in Bakewell on Monday but I didn't see anyone do it
- Location
- Durham, UK
Maybe but the dairy heard up here have very few jerseys
Yeah 100,000 of them!
Boydvalley
Member
- Location
- Bath
Frome NSL 40kg 2.08p/kg £83.70
livestock 1
Member
Penrith av 225ppk for 1007 lambs
Ewes up a touch 1173 of them
Ewes up a touch 1173 of them
Yes they will go up I get that, but I would say around here fat dead weight up about 30ppk so £120 on 400kg. What I was meaning is if people have has a extra cash injection into the business it makes it a lot easier to put a few extra bids in.
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
I think the estimated 100k to 200k bull calves which that refers to will have an effect on the price. Need semen use is nearly sure to increase in my mind.
- Location
- Buxton, Derbyshire
Don't think many people knew about it this week to be fair. First I knew was reading it on the market report.
They've set up viewing areas in the store and fat ring, guessing around the stores it will be the bit across the top of the rostrum maybe? And in the sheep you can be there as long as you aren't stood in the alleyway that they are selling on.
This is my opinion, but I think they will have more of an effect on the barren cow price than the utm price. What is worrying me slightly is the predicted unemployment rate is going to be,but that will have an effect on the whole agri sector.
Has any one tried to finish kiwi bull calves before? We tried a couple of years ago as there are a few spring calving herds around here. The calves were next to nothing to buy, drank the same amount of powder as the tidy beef calves, eat as much as them but weighed half as much. They got ripped to shreds on the grid and we wished we never seen them.
Again just my opinion.
- Location
- leicestershire
Yes you go in the doors near the sheep boot wash and up the stairs it's all taped off.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
So Aldi only sold scotch beef last year?