If the market excepts them no doubt. Difference is 4 men bidding on fat and 24 bidding on the stores. I would rather buy out of stores and picking on potential and not weight on the day so much. What they will come too!!
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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livestock 1
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They are still store lambs just in the prime auctions
Yes no doubt
- Location
- Cheshire
There’s were plenty of 29-34kg stores in Bentham on Wednesday night. Auctioneer reckoned they were £10 less than equivalent in store sale on Tuesday. There was a feeding man there buying them up though. Wouldn’t have been cheap if another buyer was there.
livestock 1
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The hard bit is having the patience to stand there to buy them
The other problem is you could be bidding up people who you are trying to sell to
livestock 1
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There’s bound to be lambs cheaper in the prime the way the stores are at the moment
- Location
- Cheshire
That’s why I don’t dare start bidding at feeding lambs in the fat. Might get 30-40 handy stores but when my 100 fats come in later and a couple of buyers turn their backs suddenly those stores aren’t cheap!!
- Location
- Cheshire
livestock 1
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I’ve seen them do it. They won’t even look at them if you’ve upset the job
livestock 1
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You sometimes need that unjustified positivity thoughFarmer Logic strikes again...
- Location
- Cheshire
Yep. I can buy plenty out of the fat at my local marts as I don’t sell back into them at all. The buyers can glare and run me as much as they want. All they have too do is go one bid past my price and I’ll leave them alone. But my god it’s good fun winding them up!
Trick is to get them to buy them for you.
- Location
- Cheshire
As long as I’m not the one paying out, long may it last!
Rule number 1 of farming... never buy and sell at The same market
- Location
- Cheshire
I quite agree but who’s buying for who tends to get found out very quickly.
Get one of them to buy them for you then,or go out of your own area,I'm sure the auctioneer will know which buyer to ask
Alot of young uns having a go because they can rent keep and dont need any machinery. Sheep fever, the dearer they get the more that want them
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Yep , always the case, dont be a sheep is the moral
Just biding my time till they are out of fashion again , sometime mid Jan hopefully....
- Location
- Cheshire
Damn! I was thinking something similar!!Yep , always the case, dont be a sheep is the moral
Just biding my time till they are out of fashion again , sometime mid Jan hopefully....