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Calf trade is baffling to me,i can understand store cattle being cheap cos there isn't spare silage about,but calves should be almost unaffected by that,weather is much better than normal for the time of year so they should rear ok,must be Brexit uncertainty...
If small stores are cheap some people may decide to buy them rather than young calves.
 
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Devon
Calf trade is baffling to me,i can understand store cattle being cheap cos there isn't spare silage about,but calves should be almost unaffected by that,weather is much better than normal for the time of year so they should rear ok,must be Brexit uncertainty...

Don't mention the B word as northeastfarmer will have a meltdown:LOL::ROFLMAO:

Don't think its to do with the B word tbh,increasing cost of feed ie pellets etc is not helping the calve trade for starters and calves at todays prices you cant really go wrong if you do the job right even if the end price did drop to £3 kilo in 2 years time.

If any young farmer wants to get into the beef industry they really need to be buying calves now and rearing them because they are unlikely to be this cheap in 12 months time.
 
Location
Devon
Well last Wednesday at holsworthy market calves sold ok imo
Watched 250 go through and didn't buy one so they couldn't of been that cheap

Talking to someone last week who buys calves at both sedge and Holsworthy he told me that 12 months ago calves at Holsworthy were cheaper than sedge but now its swung the other way, if you had been at sedge today and wanted smart calves for no money you would have snapped up those char heifers as they were no money for what they were and plenty more like it, over 600 calves penned today.
 

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
Calf trade is baffling to me,i can understand store cattle being cheap cos there isn't spare silage about,but calves should be almost unaffected by that,weather is much better than normal for the time of year so they should rear ok,must be Brexit uncertainty...
People do not want the hassle of rearing them when run of the mill weanlings have been cheap to buy. Almost a four tier market going on now with cattle prices but quality is still making good money and good things of all description are in demand .
 
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Shebb90

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Location
Devon
Sedgemoor today..

Hmm:scratchhead::scratchhead: okay the positives..

Store lambs,

Yet again a short entry of mixed quality lambs sold to a much smaller crowd of buyers thou trade would only be back a £ or two for medium keep lambs.

Most store cattle found new homes...

Stirks, some super runs of cattle in selling to a packed crowd of buyers, bottom end cattle would be slightly up on the week but suckler bred animals down around the £50/ head mark, given the information below all cattle in this ring were selling very well.

Okay the negatives.............................................................................................

Store cattle

Again a small entry of only some 900 head was mainly made up of cattle that are showing the effects of the extreme summer weather saw a trade selling to new lows and would be a worse trade than seen at any market so far in 2018 at the Sedgemoor National livestock centre, the heaviest /stronger feeding cattle saw the biggest drop on the week with their trade down some £100 head on last week and it would take a special animal to reach anywhere near £1000 head, plenty of plain but farming native heifers around the 20 month mark trading anywhere from sub £500 head to just over the £600 head mark, they would at a guess be around the 450 kilo mark! a usefull run of strong native bred steers around the 650/700 kilo mark and around the 5 year old mark sold very well to a top of £595 head.

Calves,

Trade was all but a disaster for sellers and trade was below the floor is how it can only be described, the worst trade since easily the 1980's with very strong Char x heifers around the £120 mark and top end Char bull's £220/250 mark ( these calves wold have been £100 head more 12 months ago, top end BB bulls around the £250/280 mark generally ( would have been £370+ 12 months ago.

Sell live to thrive:)
What was medium store lambs making
 

Shebb90

Member
Location
Devon
Talking to someone last week who buys calves at both sedge and Holsworthy he told me that 12 months ago calves at Holsworthy were cheaper than sedge but now its swung the other way, if you had been at sedge today and wanted smart calves for no money you would have snapped up those char heifers as they were no money for what they were and plenty more like it, over 600 calves penned today.
Does anyone go to the swaddledown store lamb sale that kivells had yesterday?
 
Location
Devon
Didt know anything about it..has it been advertised if so...not very well I ait seen it

Very poor advertising of ALL on farm sales be that livestock or machinery etc by Kivells, they have a genuine large machinery sale in Mid Devon on the 24th of November yet all the info about it is a little box on their calendar on line, and that was the same with the above sheep sale.

They website needs to be totally revamped as its not fit for purpose im sad to say.
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Very poor advertising of ALL on farm sales be that livestock or machinery etc by Kivells, they have a genuine large machinery sale in Mid Devon on the 24th of November yet all the info about it is a little box on their calendar on line, and that was the same with the above sheep sale.

They website needs to be totally revamped as its not fit for purpose im sad to say.

Stags have the upper hand for on farm sales, can’t see that changing anytime soon.
 

primmiemoo

Member
Location
Devon
Very poor advertising of ALL on farm sales be that livestock or machinery etc by Kivells, they have a genuine large machinery sale in Mid Devon on the 24th of November yet all the info about it is a little box on their calendar on line, and that was the same with the above sheep sale.

They website needs to be totally revamped as its not fit for purpose im sad to say.

They've stopped advertising in the local weekly papers. There's was always a prominent ad on the front page of one of them, and a big ad inside the other.
It's anybody's guess how they communicate to customers who aren't at the market every week.
And who has time to read what's in the windows when you are there?
 
Location
Devon
They've stopped advertising in the local weekly papers. There's was always a prominent ad on the front page of one of them, and a big ad inside the other.
It's anybody's guess how they communicate to customers who aren't at the market every week.

A full page spread every week in the WMN and that's about it from what I can tell.
 

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