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Has anyone reconsidered QMS this year. I have only been on the scheme for a year but i haven't noticed a price difference from before. I had no problem with QMS inspection last year and already did everything they asked except feed plan and medicine disposal( I had a collection in the buyer of...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland The sheep trade in Northern Ireland (NI) witnessed an improvement as the week went on as demand strengthened. Base prices for lambs improved as the week progressed to range from 595p/kg up to 610p/kg. This increase in prices was helped by demand...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Lamb prices are up £34.50 on a 21kg carcass compared to the same period in 2020, according to the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC). Recent downward pressure on lamb prices in Northern Ireland (NI) has put a dampener on the trade. However, despite...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland The sheep trade in Northern Ireland (NI) is witnessing a similar situation to the one in the south, with lamb prices coming under considerable pressure. Last week, base prices for lambs were at 595-600p/kg up to a 21kg carcass weight, according to the...

Had this come through by email this morning. Some excellent questions being asked. Anyone else who has it I suggest it would be well worth filling in.

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Lamb prices in Northern Ireland (NI) continue in a rich vein of form, increasing once again on the previous week. The average deadweight lamb price reported in NI last week (week ending June 11) was 639.4p/kg, up 10.3p/kg from the previous week...

Has anyone here used a lleyn tup on suffolk/mule and/or texel/mule ewes to breed replacements? If so how did the resulting ewes turn out? Thinking about pulling out a few ewes this year to give it a go.

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Deadweight lamb prices in Northern Ireland (NI) are up 36p/kg on this time last year recent figures show. According to the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC), the average deadweight lamb price for the week ending June 4 stood at 629.1p/kg. The same...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Deadweight lamb prices in Great Britain (GB) for the week ending June 4, saw an increase on the week prior. According to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), the GB new season lamb (NSL) standard quality quotation (SQQ) averaged...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Sheep prices and throughput fell in Great Britain (GB) for the week ending May 21, the latest Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) report reveals. The number of sheep processed amounted to 173,000 head for the week, which represented a...

Having a discussion last night with some friends about the power of the NFU or lack thereof. i have thought for a while now they mostly focus on the wrong things. For example, lobbying the government to stop imports not grown to our standards (this is utterly impossible waste of time and will...

This Feedcast special is focusing on the beef finishing markets. Today, Tom Spears, our resident Beef sales specialist and Anna Sutcliffe, one of KW’s ruminant technical managers, discuss what has happened to the beef industry over the last 12 months and how important the right feeding regime is...

Good evening, I wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else?! Sadly we have gone down with TB in our herd for the first time since having our cattle. We lost some nice beasts including some young breeding bulls. We couldn’t believe it! Anyway to make matters worse, the abattoir...

Hello thinking of sending some cull ewes dead weight what would be a rough ko% for mule ewes at fat class 3 thanks

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Spring lamb supplies have increased in recent weeks in Northern Ireland (NI) according to the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC). In line with seasonal trends, spring lamb numbers have been increasing in recent weeks and accounted for 52.4% of...

Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland Deadweight Great Britain cattle prices rose again in the week ending April 30, almost across the board, according to the latest data and analysis from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). The Great Britain all-prime average price...

Written by William Kellett from Agriland Welsh government figures show how farm incomes in Wales for 2020-2021 were forecast to have increased for cattle and sheep farms in both less favoured areas (LFA) and in lowland areas in Wales against a backdrop of change and instability caused by...

Allways find loading up cattle into a cattle lorry one of the hardest tasks of all in the keeping of cattle, ive had cattle for over 30 odd years, in the past when we had a local mart, we bought our own ivor williams cattle trailer and loading the few that that took was fairly straight...

Having been berated about the price of lamb and how people need to pay more for it, if us Peasants are to continue in business producing these lambs, I thought I would start a thread about what could or should be done to reduce the costs that many of us have. Many of these costs are out of our...

Written by Michael Geary from Agriland Small numbers of spring lambs have been coming on stream in Northern Ireland and quotes this past week have been reaching 630-635p/kg. Meat processing plants are paying up to 21kg carcass weight and quotes next week are expected to open up at a similar...