Quality pays,but it also costs!!
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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muleman
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We've plenty room for improvement but quality better to look at!
If you cant farm what you enjoy then might as well give over, i see folk farming and promoting the hairy big bellied cattle that can live outside longer,not for me, wait till they have to try and sell them , not for me!
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Anybody get to Sedgemoor today?
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
As you get older tho you have a job to put up with the antics of some of the continentals and think is it worth the grief !
When you could have lower maintenance milkier dams that you could calve in the pen without having to crush them and help calf to suck if needed without being ground into the ground by the dam.
always busy
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Only cattle turned out unsold were dealers cattle , and they were wanting a summer time trade for there cattle.
You obviously saw what you saw and I saw something different.
Totally agree its not just a job its our lives i get a lot of pleasure out of looking at a shed full of quality cattle i think they feed better than the plainer types
Store lambs averaged 94 odd according to fb
muleman
Member
Job satisfaction.
And if feeds dear you might as well put it into something thats gonna be worth something when its finished.
casper74
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
I was talking to one of the main buyers in Thirsk after the sale on Thursday, he said quality will always sell and when feed is dear feed a good one, A friend of mine breeds very good sheep he always says if your going to breed and feed one make it a good one.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
Theyll need half a tonne of creep each to get the weight for age?
muleman
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They dont have much weight, just plenty of shape.
They get a bit of creep but nowhere near half a tonne, if they werent given a bit of creep theyd have to be wintered and then the costs would add up.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Yep.
Very surprised to see that store lamb average of £94 head, they were well back on the week and a hell of a lot of very poor ( and i mean VERY poor ) lambs penned, only 2462 penned and most of the big weekly buyers missing or standing back watching.
Only 412 cull ewes penned which is a very low number for any week at the market unless its Xmas week or hit by snow, looks very much like neither the store lambs or cull ewes are about!
Store cattle, the very best meat animals were up on the week and also Angus N/S cattle were a very strong trade, other than that a LOT of well bred but very hungry/ lean cattle penned today that have been left outdoors without silage or hard feed for 6/8 weeks too long and which sold to a much lower trade than previous weeks, plenty of well bred 500-550 kilo ish dairy x beef steers around the £1000/1050 mark, very little confidence around this ring today for some reason thou of course waiting lists to get prime cattle away are getting longer and the beef price at best stand on if not down 3 or so pence next week.
Stirks, again a very lacklustre trade with very little confidence around the ringside sold to a much lower trade than last week.
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Trade is so up and down week by week its unreal currently, nothing was said but i think there is a big concern that the pubs/ hospitality trade is going to be shut down again in the next few weeks which is causing the current unease being felt by finishers!
there is a cost to growing it you know! mate of mine yoused to bragg how cheap he could buy unassured barley , less than i could grow it.
I agree that trade seems to be yoyo- ing abit but didnt more british beef get sold during lockdown and help get the price to where it is? Hospitality beef was usually foreign or cow beef!
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
I dont think they will shut again....if they did lots would not open again...just got to be careful and enjoy life
Lot of mixed messages about.I seen the stirks sold today. Hard to comment as it’s the first time I’ve been in two years probably. But I thought for the quality, trade was good. Anything poorly bred got knocked. But no more than you’d expect from trade this time of year. It’s always selective.
Agree with @cattleman123 i can’t see them shutting the catering industry but they may impose enough restrictions or create enough fear that it’ll have the same effect anyway.
- Location
- North of Perth
We finish everything. Only grow 30 acre of barley and everything else is bought in.