Our lad bought ten 8 to 12 months suckler bred heifers for £640 average. Felt really sorry for the vendors as I would be spewing letting them go for that. He was chuffed tho!Should bring them down to Sedgmoor
Top price steer ( do not think any were higher ) made £1780, another at £1700, one vendor averaged £1670 head for his trailer load of store cattle.
Ewes and lambs one HELL HELL of a trade, new buyer in attendance looking for every couple he could get his hands on, did not care what breeds/age etc they were, top was over £300 per couple for a large pen full of mixed flock ages i think they were.
And not to be left out of the action, the trade in the stirk ring was the dearest for some time, heifers were an exceptional trade, price of note were a pen of R grade Lim heifers, they smashed the £900 head mark and these cattle 2/3 weeks ago would have been £200 head less, top heifer was a lim at about £1225 head for a 10/12 month old animal.
Talk around the ringside was that there will be a 10/20ppk drop in the beef price the next few weeks but that did not deter cattle buyers today, onwards and upwards the store/stirk cattle go.
To be honest the days of selling 18-20 month store cattle for £7-800 need to be over dairy bred or not, especially in this day and age of inflation. Can't see how people can survive?I thought it looked/sounded a tidy trade seeing as there was all sorts, auctioneer who sells the stores after the cows is a good one to listen too. Cracks on fairish
come on you got to put pictures up like @Hfd Cattle and guess the price has he told you nothingOur lad bought ten 8 to 12 months suckler bred heifers for £640 average. Felt really sorry for the vendors as I would be spewing letting them go for that. He was chuffed tho!
He can fair turn them out! Who bought it?
He can fair turn them out! Who bought it?
Paterson Cairndaie Croft if I’ve spelt it rightHe can fair turn them out! Who bought it?
Think I'll have to start selling cows an calves.Paterson Cairndaie Croft if I’ve spelt it right
He brings them down to Carlisle think he has some for Friday you can expect 6/7k for the first one really good cattle I keep real stillThink I'll have to start selling cows an calves.
Scared to blink or twitchHe brings them down to Carlisle think he has some for Friday you can expect 6/7k for the first one really good cattle I keep real still
Yes no eye contactScared to blink or twitch
Yeah feck that, when they sell the prize winners I look at the floor till the hammer dropsYes no eye contact
One swallow does not make a summerShould bring them down to Sedgmoor
Top price steer ( do not think any were higher ) made £1780, another at £1700, one vendor averaged £1670 head for his trailer load of store cattle.
Ewes and lambs one HELL HELL of a trade, new buyer in attendance looking for every couple he could get his hands on, did not care what breeds/age etc they were, top was over £300 per couple for a large pen full of mixed flock ages i think they were.
And not to be left out of the action, the trade in the stirk ring was the dearest for some time, heifers were an exceptional trade, price of note were a pen of R grade Lim heifers, they smashed the £900 head mark and these cattle 2/3 weeks ago would have been £200 head less, top heifer was a lim at about £1225 head for a 10/12 month old animal.
Talk around the ringside was that there will be a 10/20ppk drop in the beef price the next few weeks but that did not deter cattle buyers today, onwards and upwards the store/stirk cattle go.
Like all farming subsidies they’ll probably work it off bps payment or something and pay it too land owners not the people actually farmingI see the EU's on about giving every farmer a one off cash injection to see them through this winter , max 100k but average 15k
Good job you voted out then or you wouldn't know how to spend it.I see the EU's on about giving every farmer a one off cash injection to see them through this winter , max 100k but average 15k
surely theres plenty profit in a lamb at £100? not so long ago they were £60, i dont get where the huge cost rise with sheep is? very low inputs required
He's quite close to us, Barry Patterson.Paterson Cairndaie Croft if I’ve spelt it right
A nice hobby but a dear one at thatHe's quite close to us, Barry Patterson.
Not sure if he's a farmer. Does a fair bit of showing cattle. Imagine its for that.