£200000 Suffolk

Nithsdale

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While the Circus at Lanark will get all the headlines this week there was also a dispersal at Sandyknowe where 230 genuine breeders averaged £720 (ish) I would imagine going to genuine breeders.

Sandyknowe is - or at least was not that long ago - regarded as one of the best commercial type Suffolk flocks in the country.
 

sheepwise

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The top of every breed is at it though.
You'd not have a Texel, Beltex, Char, Blackie, Swale, Lleyn (list could go on!) either if you went by the current top priced tup of each breed... None of them are what the respective breed is supposed to be, and you'd be rather daft to assess an entire breed based on 1 record priced animal
Agree, but unfortunately with a headline price like that everyone is talking about it and thinking that's the way the breed is going.
 

sheepwise

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The top prices in all breeds are often driven by the part time showmen, who fund their hobby with income from elsewhere. That's their choice of course, and while it has never represented what the commercial farmer needs (whether he/she realises it or not), it drives a trade amongst like minded breeders.

To be fair though, most of the highest priced Charollais at Worcester were good carcass sheep, and all were bought by breeders that would draw plenty of fat lambs themselves. It was refreshing to see. :)
Hope @andybk reads this!:)
 

farmer james

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Sandyknowe is - or at least was not that long ago - regarded as one of the best commercial type Suffolk flocks in the country.
I would say it was still regarded as one of the best commercially minded Suffolk flocks in the country, and far more representative of what Suffolks offer to the industry.
FJ
 
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sheepwise

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I was thinking that! All shop talk was banned on my stag do! Anyone caught had too shot tequila.
hell I was bad the next day… 🤢🤢
Just remember I was actually at the stag of the father of the boy who is getting married. Us old ones were just saying that the quality of the ‘special guest’ was not as good as it was back in our day! In fact someone commented that she was the same one as 25 years ago!!!
 
Of the trade in Worcester a lot of lambs were unsold and a lot with legs and mouths not so great, if a breed follows a couple with the money it can change a breed for the wrong and can be hard to correct these man made faults.
 

Ysgythan

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The top prices in all breeds are often driven by the part time showmen, who fund their hobby with income from elsewhere. That's their choice of course, and while it has never represented what the commercial farmer needs (whether he/she realises it or not), it drives a trade amongst like minded breeders.

To be fair though, most of the highest priced Charollais at Worcester were good carcass sheep, and all were bought by breeders that would draw plenty of fat lambs themselves. It was refreshing to see. :)

ironically the Charolais is a low top price, high average price sale breed because they cost so much to produce breeders couldn’t accept as low a price as other breeds.
 
My effort at buying a Suffolk, and £199200 cheaper too!
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Stockwell

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While the Circus at Lanark will get all the headlines this week there was also a dispersal at Sandyknowe where 230 genuine breeders averaged £720 (ish) I would imagine going to genuine breeders.

From what I heard, it sounded like Easyrams and Logie Durno bought the big money Sandyknowe ewes....£2k upwards.
Tried to buy some online but ones I thought would be 4-500 were 800-1000. That jobs best left to the professionals
 

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