livestock 1
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Live weight or deadweight though???Here we go, another my sheep are spread further than yours piddling contest… Mine don’t get further than 40 miles from base. (Unless they are out unattended!)
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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livestock 1
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Yes I can imagine 2 in the play pen bidding in about a pound or two near fat value
- Location
- Cheshire
I shall abstain from this one… 
Probably is 70 if you include the 30 mile from my house too my first field
then the 20 in the other direction I go too work 
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Sedge today.
A thousand store lambs topped out at £126 head, trade was on fire and easily up £6/7 head on the week! Lambs that would have been £80 last week were £86/7 head today and this on the back of only a 10ppk deadweight price rise for next week!
Stirks, about 350 ish head penned sold to a stand on trade to 2 weeks ago which was very surprising seeing the store cattle trade in the adjacent ring!!
Store cattle, About 519 sold, And i would say to the dearest trade ever seen for commercial store cattle in the SW, trade topped out at £1500 head for a 16 month old home bred heifer ( picture of the heifer on the market's facebook page ) and other good sorts around the 16 month mark from the same good farm sold to £1350 head which both prices far exceeded the vendors expectations! pen after pen of forward steers £1350/1400+ and grazing steers an unreal trade with 15 month old narrow dairy bred/ 400 kilo angus steers well over the 1k mark and Char x steers of the same comments to £1155 head! if you take out the handfull of 24+ month old steers that were the size of a pet poodle then i would be very surprised if the steer average ( incl FRi steers ) will not be very close or maybe even over £1200 head.
Trade in the store cattle section really had to be seen to be believed, words cannot do justice to just how red hot the trade actually was today!
A thousand store lambs topped out at £126 head, trade was on fire and easily up £6/7 head on the week! Lambs that would have been £80 last week were £86/7 head today and this on the back of only a 10ppk deadweight price rise for next week!
Stirks, about 350 ish head penned sold to a stand on trade to 2 weeks ago which was very surprising seeing the store cattle trade in the adjacent ring!!
Store cattle, About 519 sold, And i would say to the dearest trade ever seen for commercial store cattle in the SW, trade topped out at £1500 head for a 16 month old home bred heifer ( picture of the heifer on the market's facebook page ) and other good sorts around the 16 month mark from the same good farm sold to £1350 head which both prices far exceeded the vendors expectations! pen after pen of forward steers £1350/1400+ and grazing steers an unreal trade with 15 month old narrow dairy bred/ 400 kilo angus steers well over the 1k mark and Char x steers of the same comments to £1155 head! if you take out the handfull of 24+ month old steers that were the size of a pet poodle then i would be very surprised if the steer average ( incl FRi steers ) will not be very close or maybe even over £1200 head.
Trade in the store cattle section really had to be seen to be believed, words cannot do justice to just how red hot the trade actually was today!
livestock 1
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gone up the hill
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- Devon
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From what i have been hearing today the fat cattle just are NOT about at the moment! no end of people commented to me today that they have booked in fat cattle the last few days thinking they would go in about 6/7 days but actually most were picked up the next working day and in 2 cases they booked them in first thing in the morning and then had a call a couple of hours later saying the lorry was on the way to pick them up for kill that day!
And as for lambs, they are not about either ( be that store or fat ) large prime stock buyer today told me they are taking many thousands of light export lambs every week currently, i asked them if they were taking more lighter lambs each week currently than 12/24 months ago this time of year and he said the light lambs/ demand for them was 4x times what they were either last year or the year before!
leek the same feckin stupid! went home empty , and i dont care, offered to take some back for a mate he said dont worry i dont know how many ive got ive got but got to have a lorry!
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
I made a prediction in the spring that Fat Cattle would be 4.20/25 by Sept..i still stand by that statement...a revaluation of Agricultural Produce is underway
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Imo the store prices i saw today are where they need to be given the way EVERY single input we buy is going up in many cases by the day/week!
The problem is that the killing plants/ supermarket buyers need to get in the REAL WORLD and realize that they need to INCREASE the prime price to farmers that finish lambs/cattle because if they do not they will within a couple or so years have NO supply of sheep meat/ beef and if they think they can replace UK meat supply's with imported meat they are in a for a very big shock because UK meat prices are just about the lowest in the world currently!
- Location
- North Yorkshire
An article on face ache today about how lamb exports are massively down year on year, and have seen similar about beef, with a negative tone to them. Is it a bad thing looking at the record prices for both? Seems to me all this import and export (free trade that is so championed) only serves to make the middle men fat. It is used almost exclusively to lever domestic prices down rather than provide marketing opportunities. The lever has gone and they are having to pay, long may it continue. Shopping tonight, shelves increasingly bare, two supermarkets in Thirsk totally sold out of whole milk, incidentally loads of semi and skimmed, the public suddenly won’t care about price when they can’t get it.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
World wide sheep meat supplies are at record lows....
UK beef meat supplies are at very low levels currently as so many suckler farmers have been forced out of the industry due to such pathetic low prices that beef fininshers have been able to pay due to the very low prices they have received the last few years........
Demand from the middle east for both lamb meat and beef meat is at record highs....
UK prices will only go one way and that is upwards.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
I would not believe any figures/ graphs the AHDB post on anything!
They are so out of touch they live in the stone age!!
It was only 4/5 years ago that they claimed that the top 25% of suckler cow farmers only spent £6 head on silage/ hay costs per cow for an 180 day winter!! that figure was a complete work of fiction that any fool could see it was complete Bull sh!t yet the AHDB staff/ bigwigs were adamant that it was correct!
- Location
- Cheshire
Probably doesn’t help that when I am contacted for a survey I don’t tell the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth…
- Location
- Cheshire
I managed 1 BBx weaned bull! Wasn’t really expecting it but it looked a damn sight cheaper than some Angus bred cattle I saw. (Sorry @livestock 1 no offence meant)
I thought the sucklers were very well sold for a very “leek” entry. Nothing really caught my eye at all. The neat 34 month old blue heifer with the angus (the most BBx looking Angus heifer I’ve ever seen) heifer calf looked alright but I don’t want heifer calves!
There was a serious short entry of sheep in Cirencester this week, they usually get over 1000 lambs and 400 ewes but only managed 300 lambs and 30 ewes! Are ewes running out fast or just to hot for people to bother to wean and pull the cull ewes out?
I got a load of Beltex cross lambs on a hopper and I'm willing the buggers to eat like mad so I can catch the trade.
I got a load of Beltex cross lambs on a hopper and I'm willing the buggers to eat like mad so I can catch the trade.
Skintagain
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- Perched on the Pennines
People have been busy but I think later lambing flocks had a lot of lambs too which will have reduced big singles about atm
Greythundercloudys
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Yes those store lmbs would be big singles/ killing lmbs,JE types.
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland