Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

gone up the hill · May 10, 2021

Jerry said:
Exeter this morning was pretty chaotic. Neighbour had in a few pens of NSL , he dropped off to go get his culls and cane back to see them penned any how and not as he’d marked them.

I took in 4 hoggs and they did not mouth them and I’ve not seen them sold or wieghed as needed to get home.

Wait time in queue was nearly an hour

Will be well over 4000 sheep in Exeter today i reckon.

They do not look at/weigh the hoggs untill they finish weighing/penning the Spring lambs and with anything from 2500 to 3000 head that is not a 5 minute job.

They may have penned your friends sheep diffrently to how he marked them as they knew they would sell better that way.

gone up the hill · May 10, 2021

andybk said:
yes i had issues a few weeks ago , recon it cost me £10+ a head , hope buyers arnt playing silly games with the drop and go policy, sticky wicket if they are , might be taking a few nsl to frome (or salisbury) this week see how it compares

Is it not the case again now at Sedgemoor that vendors can stay to see their stock sold on Mondays?

andybk · May 10, 2021

gone up the hill said:
Is it not the case again now at Sedgemoor that vendors can stay to see their stock sold on Mondays?

Dont know , no one was going in last friday , and week in question im sure they werent sorted properly ,
This year hasnt really mattered what breed its been as long as its finished i would have been a bit p55d if i had had same issue as @Poorbuthappy, 50kg lambs at £100 ffs , paul should have passed them or sold pending (that paid for bubbly at shareholders meeting no doubt )

neilo · May 10, 2021

50kg ram hoggs at £153, and 56kg at £159 this morning, along with three 46kg Exlana 'toothers' at £120.

Still waiting on the ewe prices, but certainly happy enough with those, and better than they'd have been on the dead (where some lighter ones went yesterday).

Sell live to thrive...

Mc115reed · May 10, 2021

gone up the hill said:
Is it not the case again now at Sedgemoor that vendors can stay to see their stock sold on Mondays?

I hope markets aren’t getting back too allowing vendors in

I enjoy dropping the tail board & unload straight away and disappearing too go do other stuff rather than hanging around all morning waiting for people talking sh!t too anyone who looks at them stood around the scales slowing everything down so it takes over a hour too unload sheep

Werzle · May 10, 2021

copse said:
Spoke to the chap I deal with at RPf this morning and he said they were getting hell of a lot of spring lambs coming forward. Seems lambs that have been fed have done very well in this dry weather we have had. So wouldn’t like to be holding onto hoggs for many more weeks.

I heard the opposite, nsl lamb numbers are in short supply and going to get dearer because of the weather / grass shortage and beef back 5p

gone up the hill · May 10, 2021

Mc115reed said:
I hope markets aren’t getting back too allowing vendors in I enjoy dropping the tail board & unload straight away and disappearing too go do other stuff rather than hanging around all morning waiting for people talking sh!t too anyone who looks at them stood around the scales slowing everything down so it takes over a hour too unload sheep

Each to their own, just because vendors are allowed in markets it does not mean you have to stay to see your stock weighed/ sold if you do not want to but that should not mean other vendors who do want to see their stock sold should be stopped from doing so providing they adhere to the SD/ market rules etc.

Jerry · May 10, 2021

gone up the hill said:
Will be well over 4000 sheep in Exeter today i reckon.

They do not look at/weigh the hoggs untill they finish weighing/penning the Spring lambs and with anything from 2500 to 3000 head that is not a 5 minute job.

They may have penned your friends sheep diffrently to how he marked them as they knew they would sell better that way.

Daughter still scanning now, so Im guessing 4,400 head in.

His lambs were all marked by weight, they did not pick them at all. just spread them over 4 pens, so 38kg texals mixed in with 44kg Suffolk's etc etc. They should have been penned by type and weight.

He is not happy, certainly was not a case of them picking better than he knows his own sheep.

gone up the hill · May 10, 2021

andybk said:
Dont know , no one was going in last friday , and week in question im sure they werent sorted properly ,
This year hasnt really mattered what breed its been as long as its finished i would have been a bit p55d if i had had same issue as @Poorbuthappy, 50kg lambs at £100 ffs , paul should have passed them or sold pending (that paid for bubbly at shareholders meeting )

Just checked the report for last sat ( the one before this weekend ) and it says that vendors are indeed allowed to stay to see their stock sold if they so wish but they would rather vendors did not stay to see their stock sold.

Vendors are certainly allowed in to sort their stock now even if they do not wish to stay to see them sold.

Northeastfarmer · May 10, 2021

neilo said:
Sell live to thrive...

Sell live to thrive...

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I used to be indecisive but now I’m not so sure...

gone up the hill · May 10, 2021

Jerry said:
Daughter still scanning now, so Im guessing 4,400 head in.

His lambs were all marked by weight, they did not pick them at all. just spread them over 4 pens, so 38kg texals mixed in with 44kg Suffolk's etc etc. They should have been penned by type and weight.

He is not happy, certainly was not a case of them picking better than he knows his own sheep.

If they have that many in it must surely be a record entry for a Monday market?

How did your friends sheep sell? was he there when they were picked/ weighed?

On the weights, a pen of 42 kilo lambs quite often will make more than a pen of 44 kilo lambs currently so perhaps by mixing the lighter and heavy lambs it will have reduced his average weight but increased his average sale price? ( just a thought )

Jerry · May 10, 2021

gone up the hill said:
If they have that many in it must surely be a record entry for a Monday market?

How did your friends sheep sell? was he there when they were picked/ weighed?

It was 4211 last week, daughter thinks more in but not finished the count yet.

As said above, no, he was on way back to get a load of culls in. He did say they were marked in groups to be penned as such. But they ignored the instruction it seems.

livestock 1 · May 10, 2021

Sell live and have a domestic by the looks of things!!!

sheepwise · May 10, 2021

Optimus said:
Any Hogg an cull ewe prices today.got last ones going tomorrow.

Up in Ayr today to just below £3/kg. Whole sale averaged £130 for what was described as an end of season show.

Mc115reed · May 10, 2021

gone up the hill said:
Each to their own, just because vendors are allowed in markets it does not mean you have to stay to see your stock weighed/ sold if you do not want to but that should not mean other vendors who do want to see their stock sold should be stopped from doing so providing they adhere to the SD/ market rules etc.

Iv no problem with folk watching there stock sold i get it some folk have nout better to do with theyre time... but I have a problem with people taking hours too unload sheep because they have too cuddle every other sheep and watch them all weighed individually then give them another cuddle before deciding it’s time too do there paperwork and leave ... unload your sheep and f**k off let the mart sort them out and email you the results then things run faster

livestock 1 · May 10, 2021

@gone up the hill were you at the bull sale??

Farmerbuti · May 10, 2021

Optimus said:
Any Hogg an cull ewe prices today.got last ones going tomorrow.

Same as last week what I split off

copse · May 10, 2021

Werzle said:
I heard the opposite, nsl lamb numbers are in short supply and going to get dearer because of the weather / grass shortage and beef back 5p

There certainly not short around here loads of lambs going to kill at about 12 weeks old.

Aspiring Peasants · May 10, 2021

neilo said:
Sell live to thrive...

Or produce sheep that are wanted?

cattleman123 · May 10, 2021

andybk said:
when you see how well Hereford and Exeter are doing , and my neighbours are hauling to Ross , need to watch out long term

copse said:
There certainly not short around here loads of lambs going to kill at about 12 weeks old.

I think the Genetics of the Rams that farmers buy are improving growth rates, that together with creep feeding is most certainly getting the best out of their lambs...

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