Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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- Location
- Cheshire
£79.50 minus market costs
- Location
- North of Perth
For all the doom a gloom at the moment had an Angus away the other day -u4L came back £1986 that's not so bad.
A large house builder round here says the same. He employs lots of ex farm lads because he knows they work.
ritchiekirkland
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Needs to be worldwide though then we have them. Going by Holland, Canada, Sri Lanka etc it might just happen.
Glad you agree, I was worried I had a different calculator to everyone else
- Location
- Cheshire
It’s a few years ago. Probably getting on for 10! I bought a ruck of mule weathers out of Skipton in December avg £64.50, kept them until April and sales average was £67. Then take off market costs so I was on a negative figure before I’d left the ringGlad you agree, I was worried I had a different calculator to everyone else
.that started growing the cynical side in what was once a happy go lucky young sheep farmer
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livestock 1
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This lot reminds me a lot of bse. Cake for cattle cereals fertiliser and diesel weren’t expensive as such at the time compared to now but the drop in value of beef was a lesson. I was quietly making a lot of money and had taken a farm on a good few years before all borrowed money and two years after I bought the stock it all halved in value. Just before bse everything had straightened out margins were very good I was feeding a good few beast and the money they were coming to was fantastic in my eyes. Once it dropped the good margin became a minus and the job was hopeless. Probably didn’t see it coming to be fair. This lot is something very different stock values are fairly strong even with the recent drop but compared to the ever rising cost of everything the answer is the same. When you’ve seen it once you know what’s coming
livestock 1
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Years ago we kept hoggs back of our own to sell as normal then in January and February I bought a few Hexham type blackface and some Herdwick’s in the £60’s plus a few batches that folks were sick of too. These sheep all came to good money only real problem was I should have bought more.It’s a few years ago. Probably getting on for 10! I bought a ruck of mule weathers out of Skipton in December avg £64.50, kept them until April and sales average was £67. Then take off market costs so I was on a negative figure before I’d left the ring
that started growing the cynical side in what was once a happy go lucky young sheep farmer
Next year went in a bit deeper rented a bit more wintering ground ended up with over 3000 one way and another and maybe the same year as you are on about sold them mainly in the £60’s more sheep less margin
Maybe everyone had the same idea
I can't do any of that stuff, maybe that's why I'm broke.
livestock 1
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You probably do but just don’t realiseI can't do any of that stuff, maybe that's why I'm broke.
It will be very interesting to see what the mule trade is like a thame, there is zero grass round here now and cant see people wanting there replacements for April lambing kicking about. My best mate who 5 years ago would take land on up to 200 miles away told me last week that they aren't going to buy any replacements this year and give up a ruck of land, they are the hardest working family I would know so if they have had enough I would think that's a trend. I also think mule running gimmer lambs will be a poorer trade, people usually buy them when they have a load of spare cash and/or grass, if you have neither your probably not going to go out and buy 200 extra mouths.
livestock 1
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I hope you are right. Pretty much suits me down to the ground when breeding sheep are cheap as I’m always looking to increase numbers and get out of a few older ewes. Having said that if cull mule ewes are sitting around £120 then anything young and capable is going to be £25 more
I now have an abundance of grass, and could do with 100 Tex X shearlings, will there be many entered or is it too soon for white faced breeders?
- Location
- Hereford
For all the doom and gloom in Ag at the moment .....as soon as a decent patch comes on the market for sale or rent there is a huge demand and competition by other farmers to take it on !
...70 acres sold recently not far away from us ...£20,000 and acre and plenty after it ...all farmers !
...70 acres sold recently not far away from us ...£20,000 and acre and plenty after it ...all farmers !
4700 on Thursday, that includes texel x mule, cheviot mules and 3/4 bred beltex/texels
- Location
- Cheshire
No no no. You haven’t been paying attention. You are ALL dropping your breeding flocks by 50%.
£25 over cull for a shearling, I call that cheap
Going first shearling sale at Bentham today, will report back later.
the people who buy the top end types, will buy exactly what they always do at what ever price they have to pay… the bottom end will be what suffers and some might even sell for less than cull money