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How come a sudden spike in lamb trade?? Just not about? Feeders hold on to them hoping for more or just plenty of demand??or all three. Hope it continues 👍
Food shortage crack will be pushing prices. Someone put on here that NZ lamb was dearer than here. Can’t be bad. Inflation will be some of it. Everything else has gone up. Lamb should go up too.
I can remember selling Suffolk lambs in the stores in 1989/early 90’s in the late £60’s
There’s plenty of catching up to be done
 

Gedd

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Food shortage crack will be pushing prices. Someone put on here that NZ lamb was dearer than here. Can’t be bad. Inflation will be some of it. Everything else has gone up. Lamb should go up too.
I can remember selling Suffolk lambs in the stores in 1989/early 90’s in the late £60’s
There’s plenty of catching up to be done
Fat cattle come off the boil this week
 

hill farmer

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And are base price on O grades as well
Yeah pay the same for O & R grades, had O3h and R3h go through at base this yr, they used to dock 15p for them.

Do still grade hard though, our hill lambs are all O & R grades, we used to have quite a few Us with dunbia, Merthyr would grade easier again, hardly had an O grade in Merthyr.

Got some ewe lambs going live tomorrow
 
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Rugby's suckled calf sale trade was all over the place. Poor show of calves generally. Decent well bred things thin on the ground and anywhere from £880-1000 for heifers and £1000-1150 for steers. But they looked cheaper than the second quality cattle at £800-950 regularly for things that will only ever come an R and take time in doing so. Vast majority of calves looked lean and weathered imo.
 

Estate fencing.

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Yeah pay the same for O & R grades, had O3h and R3h go through at base this yr, they used to dock 15p for them.

Do still grade hard though, our hill lambs are all O & R grades, we used to have quite a few Us with dunbia, Merthyr would grade easier again, hardly had an O grade in Merthyr.

Got some ewe lambs going live tomorrow
I had some E3l’s the other week at rpf (paid flat rate) never got any u’s even when sending lambs to ff
 
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Rugby's suckled calf sale trade was all over the place. Poor show of calves generally. Decent well bred things thin on the ground and anywhere from £880-1000 for heifers and £1000-1150 for steers. But they looked cheaper than the second quality cattle at £800-950 regularly for things that will only ever come an R and take time in doing so. Vast majority of calves looked lean and weathered imo.
Probably haven’t crept them with the price of grub…….false economy in my opinion. It’s cheaper to make them grow when they are young
 
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