Hilly
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£79.50 minus market costsWe are very dry here, I’d like to be buying some lambs but haven’t got any green for the mouths we’ve got let alone setting into a ruck of stores!! The stores I’ve seen for feeding are dangerous, buy a lamb for
£80 plus, feed it for 3-4 weeks, pitch it back in an get what???
A large house builder round here says the same. He employs lots of ex farm lads because he knows they work.A large employer said to me a while ago girls n boys off farms get jobs no bother as they are famous as the last minority group of people with any work ethic left in them , good to know !!
Gid film fellas , the aussys know how to make gid films hiy !
Needs to be worldwide though then we have them. Going by Holland, Canada, Sri Lanka etc it might just happen.Sickening really prices falling, we will all be faced with dear fert next spring too. Massive reduction in stock and crops i reckon rather than bother buying it. Lets all down tools and f**k em
Glad you agree, I was worried I had a different calculator to everyone else£79.50 minus market costs
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 .Glad you agree, I was worried I had a different calculator to everyone else
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
I can't do any of that stuff, maybe that's why I'm broke.Imagine a profession where you in one single person you have a mechanic, fencer, builder, steel erector, fabricator, engineer, plumber, electrician, expert driver of tractor (probably wagon) digger telehandler roller, record keeper, accountant, entrepreneur, sh!t shoveler, roofer the list goes on and on.
You probably do but just don’t realiseI can't do any of that stuff, maybe that's why I'm broke.
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 moreIt 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.
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?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.
4700 on Thursday, that includes texel x mule, cheviot mules and 3/4 bred beltex/texelsI 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?
No no no. You haven’t been paying attention. You are ALL dropping your breeding flocks by 50%.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
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 moneyIt 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.