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thorpe

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Report for the heifer section last Saturday at Leek.

Heifers
There were 203 heifers on offer with a single 22 month old Simmental topping at £1295 from Bottom Lane Farm with another 20 month old Simmental at £1195. Limousin heifers from Joe Austin at 22 months of age sold up to £1280 with a pair of 22 month old Limousins from F Potter & Sons of Yeaveley at £1250. Shorthorn heifers at 22 months of age sold up to £1175 with a single 21 month old Charolais from Ross Worthington at £1175.
A bunch of 3, 27 month old Angus from J & D Norbury of Ashley sold for £1130 with an 18 month old British Blue heifer from C W Pearce and Partners at £1100.
Hereford heifers from Holmes Brothers of Loscoe at 23 months of age sold for £1060 with younger cattle selling up to £940 for a pair of 13 month old Limousins from S Allcock of Waterhouses with a 13 month old Simmental from H & E Bailey & Partners of Brown Edge at £895 and a pair of 12 month old Limousins from Cyril Wain & Family of Upper Hulme at £885.
Overall average achieved for heifers was an excellent £805.07.
dont look at last week youll be ok even if im not there!
 

mghley

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Location
Derbyshire
Well folks, I admire your optimism.

I don’t believe you very much... but I still admire it! 😁😉

We’ll see what tomorrow brings!
I set off optimistic in the autumn planning on fattening all big cattle, had a look at the store trade and decided to back the horse both ways, sold some as strong stores and retained half to sell in next two months.
On the basis you can’t make money with nothing , also trying to replace them all with rearing calves but struggling to buy decent sorts at sensible prices
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I set off optimistic in the autumn planning on fattening all big cattle, had a look at the store trade and decided to back the horse both ways, sold some as strong stores and retained half to sell in next two months.
On the basis you can’t make money with nothing , also trying to replace them all with rearing calves but struggling to buy decent sorts at sensible prices
Mate of mine went Drayton 3 weeks since. Bought 31 heifers 2-5 weeks. Simmental, Hereford, limousine and a couple of blues. Nice sorts of growing heifers, nothing extreme but nothing showing jersey or too much Holstein. Avg £158. He said they were cheap at the start, bloody mental in the middle but by the last 150 calves the farmer buyers had gone again and it was just the dealers squabbling amongst themselves so he got another ruck then. Look a damn good buy too me.
 

mghley

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Location
Derbyshire
Mate of mine went Drayton 3 weeks since. Bought 31 heifers 2-5 weeks. Simmental, Hereford, limousine and a couple of blues. Nice sorts of growing heifers, nothing extreme but nothing showing jersey or too much Holstein. Avg £158. He said they were cheap at the start, bloody mental in the middle but by the last 150 calves the farmer buyers had gone again and it was just the dealers squabbling amongst themselves so he got another ruck then. Look a damn good buy too me.
Sound a good buy, don’t think he could do it now
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Sound a good buy, don’t think he could do it now
If I wasn’t so close too lambing I’d have gone and had a look. 20 handy rearing heifers wouldn’t take much harm sub £200. Auctioneer reclined it’s still doable but might average nearer £180 but you have too be prepared too take calves at 10-14 days old. Bit young for me at this time of year
 

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer
Mate of mine went Drayton 3 weeks since. Bought 31 heifers 2-5 weeks. Simmental, Hereford, limousine and a couple of blues. Nice sorts of growing heifers, nothing extreme but nothing showing jersey or too much Holstein. Avg £158. He said they were cheap at the start, bloody mental in the middle but by the last 150 calves the farmer buyers had gone again and it was just the dealers squabbling amongst themselves so he got another ruck then. Look a damn good buy too me.

There’s too many calves going through Drayton now it’s not good for the seller... know a few people started taking them too leak because there’s too many in Drayton
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
There’s too many calves going through Drayton now it’s not good for the seller... know a few people started taking them too leak because there’s too many in Drayton
That will do Leek good. I stopped using Leek as there wasn’t 5 good rearing B&W bulls a week coming through! Went 2 weeks and not one came in that was up too the job! Hence I moved too Drayton. Can pick out 10-20 right-nice even calves too batch up there.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
That will do Leek good. I stopped using Leek as there wasn’t 5 good rearing B&W bulls a week coming through! Went 2 weeks and not one came in that was up too the job! Hence I moved too Drayton. Can pick out 10-20 right-nice even calves too batch up there.
Over 600 calves in market drayton last week, is there a market in the country getting more?
 

andybk

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Mendips Somerset
A very interesting article but not entirely accurate about the exporting countries and the reasons for the high demand. I would also question that world sheep numbers are at such a high level, apart from milking sheep.

China is as quoted the largest sheep producing country, yet still imports sheep meat. No one knows how many sheep there are in China, but there are less than in the early 2000's. Sheep were kept far more for wool than meat and overstocking caused significant erosion problems in may areas of thin soils. Mongolia has some of the largest flocks and sheep are milked as well as being kept for wool.
In fact the increase of sheep numbers may well be in milk rather than meat sheep. Eastern Europe is rapidly expanding their sheep industry and while some of those lambs come to western Europe for further fattening, many from Romania/Bulgaria are going alive through Turkey to the Middle East.

thanks frank , good rundown , to add most of china's sheep numbers are milking sheep due to lactose intolerance with cows milk , I know someone (or backers) who invested heavily in Tunisian milk sheep specifically for that market , (small welsh type ewes with huge milk production for size ) . also east Friesland's .
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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