Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Stewartry hill]

In a big lot and keep them moving

 

[jendan]

In a big lot and keep them moving

They will still see it.

 

[jendan]

I've never been to a market that didn't have a grader touching all the lambs, nor to a market where fat lambs are sold through a ring. I've always had lambs weighed and penned on arrival, then stay in those pens until loaded onto the buyer's lorries. I always assumed selling through a ring was a Northern thing. How do you hide the lame one?

You cant hide them.If one does manage to sneak through,the buyers pull it out and try and steal it for a tenner after the main lot.

 

[hendrebc]

New grader there now but the damage has been done its only a matter of time till the place closes down

Cant like that was a good market for welsh lambs not that long ago what a shame

 

[Al R]

In the marts with graders, are the lambs sold in a ring or in the pens? Up here they are sold in a ring and the byers can handle the sheep themselves.

Sold in pens here except in the autumn breeding ewe/ewe lambs are sold through the ring. Crymych where I tend to send mine don’t even have a weigh scales.

Cull ewes are sold in pens of 10 all graded on arrival. if there’s thin medium and fat in the same pen to make up the last pen they are marked A,B,C and are sold as their own groups.

 

[gwi1890]

Cant like that was a good market for welsh lambs not that long ago what a shame

It was ,remember listening to trade from class in school? [emoji23]

 

[Old Tip]

Lambs averaged £1.85 at local mart today with a fair few making £100 a head, even saw some hoggs make that. Few less in than the last few weeks

 

[d williams]

All sold in pens. Buyer can handle them before or during the sale. I think the grader does a lot to make sure all the lambs in the pen are evenly finished and match each other as wel as picking out any leaner ones. That way the buyer only has to handle one lamb to get a good idea of how fit the pen is.

That's all the buyers want is consistent pen be it fat or lean!

 

[RMSLLOYD]

Send the little fat ewe lambs live and big lean tups dead.

 

[aangus]

Lambs averaged £1.85 at local mart today with a fair few making £100 a head, even saw some hoggs make that. Few less in than the last few weeks

Do you think the trade has bottomed or are there just less numbers in the markets?

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Lambs a bit better at Stirling today 177kg.

 

[Jim75]

Lambs averaged 189ppkg dingwall. Low on numbers and looked like a few bought to finish. Had some 45.5kg at £85 and some 53’s at £93. If @scrubbuster remembers to tie the gate he’ll maybe update next weeks trade

 

[DB67]

Lambs a bit better at Stirling today 177kg.

Under 42s aren’t a good trade. They were struggling to make £70.

42-44kg be £75-£78.

 

[hendrebc]

It was ,remember listening to trade from class in school? [emoji23]

Yep and jumping the fence to go and have a nose at dinner time before the sale sometimes if i was sneaky enough

 

[mixed breed]

Oswestry, Trade a tad better for my sorts,

averaged 191ppk

 

[holly smoke]

Anyone know what price cattle are dead weight please

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Anyone know what price cattle are dead weight please

A lot less than it was!
Woodheads £3.65

 

[organic]

Dovecote £3.80 but might be less next week.

 

[holly smoke]

A lot less than it was!
Woodheads £3.65

Same as Lindon for next week

 

[Old Tip]

Good sorts @mixed breed tgought you would have made a bit more than you did