store sale

Today i get my new farm, after divorce its been challenging time rebuilding but in 4 years here we are, onwards and upwards. My old farm is sold to settle in December. I will truly miss it. Ive taken the day of work to go collect keys. Theres alot to do so will post pics of for anyone to...

In Wales . Everyone to stay at home from 6pm 23/10 until 09/11 . Only essential workers. No gatherings indoors or outdoors.

Right so I understand the concept of why we use mules and why they are bred from hill ewes and not the other way round. But would “reversing” them cause any significant change in the offspring? Has anyone tried this? Just curious rather than anything else

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Has anybody sold or brought any store lambs this week? Usually sell remaining lambs store in August/ September but somebody wants to buy them now, Question is what are they worth?

It's not looking good for the market at the moment is an understatement! It's tough to see what was once arguably one of the best marts to take your stock to, to only having 16 store cattle in for a sale. I hope its not another market for the chop, but unless something drastically changes I...

Through the rush to stock up a while ago there was significant weaknesses exposed in the supermarket supply chains. The smaller outlets such as local butchers seemed far more able to adapt and cope with the increased demand. This area has been crying out for a local slaughterhouse for decades...

Got the chance of a stabiliser bull to put on some simx heifers, I’ve not seen any in the flesh, what are people’s thoughts on them? I haven’t got to have him it’s just a thought so what’s your experience of them, good/bad? Heard they aren’t the best sellers? Suppose to be easy calvers

From the tracker thread

Talk today at Sedgemoor livestock market was that ALL prime and store livestock markets will be stopped from operating from some point next week! Apparently Wales are intending to shut their livestock markets from Monday. Apparently it was touch and go yesterday if todays market would be...

What’s it like in your area? not good round here ,plenty of dippers around but they’re to tight or won’t use them for sum reason Sum got in with my ewes last week,how long would it take to show it’s self?

Has anyone had a price for sheep cake this spring. I

A new research project by Exeter University, looking at the social side of LM's . About the research Livestock auction marts have acted as significant meeting points for rural communities for over 200 years. Despite facing various challenges including disease outbreak and the rise of...

Hi.im just wondering where farmers locate commercial swaledales?any of the big sales seem to have these tall narrow types but im looking for swales with a broader back and shoulder.do they still exist??

Why not weigh them all and sell them in the same sale ? particularly thinking of smaller sheep markets there would be farmers around then to pick up anything fat that's under-priced keep hearing on here about under finished lambs in the fat and lambs that are fit to kill in the stores why not...

S o took some Chx beef stores ( 8-10 months) from their mothers and sold at local market (some 60 miles away), and reckon that they were down £150-200. Indeed everything was down some LIm X (12-14 months) sold at about 900, last year I reckon about £1200. Was this just a bad day ?? one sage...

Afternoon all, long time reader first time poster here, So bit of background about me, dad and his brother own a 350 acre farm, they sold up years ago and just have arable now on contract farming... I moved away to see how agriculture is done elsewhere and have done fairly well for myself...

How are people finding it. Been on the dead for 10years but finding it hard going in Merthyr at the moment. Got some biggish heifers up to 700 kg. Be a -u on a good day. Good meat. Would they do 2pound a kilo. I know they weigh them hard. But just wondering are we better off than 315 on the dead.

I have been talking to a farmer's son who said he is making no profit from 500 ewes and will be a lot better off renting out his farm

Anybody who sold stores over the last few weeks must be happy with the prices, as its about 10 weeks to d day, a lot of those stronger lmbs will be away, but a lot of smaller ones are making 55/57, no bother, these guy will still have most of these lmbs come November, so what's these lmbs going...