£950 Holstein store

[gone up the hill]

That's what mine make finished. O+ at dunbia. Then take a good chunk out for haulage etc. Where are they making their money?

No money on any forward store cattle currently given what the fat price is V the store price, at sedge yesterday for example many Char heifers were making the same or £50 head more than they are worth on the hook.. Just no sense to the trade be that Fri steers or Fri x cattle or decent suckler bred stuff.

 

[cattleman123]

No money on any forward store cattle currently given what the fat price is V the store price, at sedge yesterday for example many Char heifers were making the same or £50 head more than they are worth on the hook.. Just no sense to the trade be that Fri steers or Fri x cattle or decent suckler bred stuff.

Well that was in Jan..yesterday...Sedge they were making more like 150 more than they were worth to kill...Jan cattle were cheap...

 

[pine_guy]

pre movement TB testing grass cattle tomorrow, maybe I should be testing my fat B+Ws and send them to the store ring

 

[kps]

Well that was in Jan..yesterday...Sedge they were making more like 150 more than they were worth to kill...Jan cattle were cheap...

And then folk's wonder why they make no money!

 

[pine_guy]

And then folk's wonder why they make no money!

....Paid £200/acre for my summer grass let........must have cattle to eat it.....feels like a fever coming on........

 

[goodevans]

Should be £20 luck money at that price to the buyer

from what i see all these forward stores are bought mainly by dealers for the large feedlots so that luck money ends up in the wrong pockets and only serves to drive the store price even further

 

[cattleman123]

....Paid £200/acre for my summer grass let........must have cattle to eat it.....feels like a fever coming on........

If i didt know you ...i would think you were not joking.....problem is the dearer stores get the more folk seem to turn up to buy them....asking names at Sedge yesterday,that tells you everything

 

[Northeastfarmer]

pre movement TB testing grass cattle tomorrow, maybe I should be testing my fat B+Ws and send them to the store ring

They'll make more!

 

[gone up the hill]

pre movement TB testing grass cattle tomorrow, maybe I should be testing my fat B+Ws and send them to the store ring

No unless you want to sell them for £100+ head less than what they are worth on the Hook.

Cattleman is wrong about the Fri trade at sedge yesterday, with the exception of some bony steers that made £950 all the rest of the fat ones were making £100 head less than what they are worth on the hook,for example some super 600 kilo BF steers only made £820/840, kill out at 310 dead @ £3.10 kilo = £961.

Trade at Exeter on Fri would have been £30/40 head up on sedge yesterday as well.

 

[gone up the hill]

If i didt know you ...i would think you were not joking.....problem is the dearer stores get the more folk seem to turn up to buy them....asking names at Sedge yesterday,that tells you everything

Grass fever, some only buy cattle at this time of year to turn out, once filled up you wont see them again until next spring!

Forward stores are cheap compared to what stirks are currently making, 350 kilo R grade steers at £1000 head is just crazy, nothing left in them, only good thing is that they will be nice to lean over the gate on a lazy Sunday morning and look at.

 

[cattleman123]

No unless you want to sell them for £100+ head less than what they are worth on the Hook.

Cattleman is wrong about the Fri trade at sedge yesterday, with the exception of some bony steers that made £950 all the rest of the fat ones were making £100 head less than what they are worth on the hook,for example some super 600 kilo BF steers only made £820/840, kill out at 310 dead @ £3.10 kilo = £961.

Trade at Exeter on Fri would have been £30/40 head up on sedge yesterday as well.

I never said fr/steers i said ....strong stores i quoted your Jan post on char heifers...please read before being so aggressive...i shud have known better...

 

[gone up the hill]

I never said fr/steers i said ....strong stores i quoted your Jan post on char heifers...please read before being so aggressive...i shud have known better...

I wasn't being aggressive but I did mis read what you wrote and what someone else replied to your comments as I thought you did say Fri steers so please accept my humble apology's @cattleman123

You are right about about contx forward cattle thou, no sense in these prices given the lacklustre fat trade.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Why has someone just paid me £950 for a 26m old Holstein steer? What are they going to do with it. Tall but not well fleshed.

Please don't ask why I had still had it. It only had meal while in a hutch for 73 days . Then nothing but grazing and silage since then.

Don't question it mate!! Just make hay while the sun shines coz believe me it will soon be pissing down again.

 

[pine_guy]

No unless you want to sell them for £100+ head less than what they are worth on the Hook.

Cattleman is wrong about the Fri trade at sedge yesterday, with the exception of some bony steers that made £950 all the rest of the fat ones were making £100 head less than what they are worth on the hook,for example some super 600 kilo BF steers only made £820/840, kill out at 310 dead @ £3.10 kilo = £961.

Trade at Exeter on Fri would have been £30/40 head up on sedge yesterday as well.

Was a bit younger in cheek. Trade here sounds the same. £1000 for a 10-12 month suckled stirk... Madness! But stuff fit or close to killing and priced no more than killing. Plenty guys round the ring at Carlisle will move them straight to kill.

 

[landslave the 2nd]

In the fat today at Bakewell.....
772 kg b&w/ hol at 32 mths did............ £1.50p/kg

 

[Northeastfarmer]

In the fat today at Bakewell.....
772 kg b&w/ hol at 32 mths did............ £1.50p/kg

not a very good return for 32 months...

 

[gone up the hill]

not a very good return for 32 months...

Never sell over age cattle in the live ring, you always get hammered.