Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Jackov Altraids]

I find it hard to see what is so outdated and not user friendly about this;
https://www.kivells.com/agricultural-and-livestock/sales-calendar

I received a flyer in the post.
I find Stags on-site sales quite poor and they have had none around here this year.

 

[FordFarmer]

I find it hard to see what is so outdated and not user friendly about this;
https://www.kivells.com/agricultural-and-livestock/sales-calendar

I received a flyer in the post.
I find Stags on-site sales quite poor and they have had none around here this year.

I tend to think Stags get bigger crowds but not sure why, heard is also ok. Never really been to kivells but only get to a few a year cause of wrk

 

[fieldfarmer]

Didt know anything about it..has it been advertised if so...not very well I ait seen it

I get a text message from them the night before about all sales, numbers ,and expected quality, find it very good, maybe leave a number with them and get on the text list.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

Sedgemoor today..

Hmm 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

The trade is easing back week on week. I had 20 bulls sent out of Market Drayton last week a mixture of b/w and a few dairy bred continentals, 235kg av. first cost £264 av. Friesian bulls under £1/kg

 

[Hampton]

Any deadweight prices?

 

[Old Tip]

Kepak/St Meryn stand on at £3.90

 

[Hampton]

Kepak/St Meryn stand on at £3.90

Thanks, lamb I assume?

 

[gone up the hill]

Shocking trade for prime lambs at both Exeter and Sedge today.

At Exeter very smart 39 kilo lambs at £62 head, 48+ kilo £75/6 head.

Prime cattle also showing large drops at Sedge today.

 

[Old Tip]

Shocking trade for prime lambs at both Exeter and Sedge today.

At Exeter very smart 39 kilo lambs at £62 head, 48+ kilo £75/6 head.

Prime cattle also showing large drops at Sedge today.

Can’t like that, why were cattle down, should be on the up one would hope

 

[holly smoke]

Just saw a couple of pens at ruswarp today 40 kg texel at £70. Good strong store Angus and short horn cattle were a flyer but anything 10 - 16 months that would turn out in spring were about 450-500

 

[Shebb90]

Any deadweight prices?

Dawn meats hatherleigh 3.62 for cattle this week.

 

[Shebb90]

Shocking trade for prime lambs at both Exeter and Sedge today.

At Exeter very smart 39 kilo lambs at £62 head, 48+ kilo £75/6 head.

Prime cattle also showing large drops at Sedge today.

What was ewes like?

 

[tinsheet]

Shocking trade for prime lambs at both Exeter and Sedge today.

At Exeter very smart 39 kilo lambs at £62 head, 48+ kilo £75/6 head.

Prime cattle also showing large drops at Sedge today.

Good trade for store lambs at Blackmoor gate, didn't take much to make £60! Several pens in the high 60s
Strange times

 

[bluepower]

What was ewes like?

Had some killers in that made £82 so I was quite pleased with that. They were some fairly big meaty cheviot mules. Average north country mules £48 but would have been quite a bit lighter and broken mouthed, so not much prospect of improving a lot more after grazing red clover for the last 6 weeks!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Shocking trade for prime lambs at both Exeter and Sedge today.

At Exeter very smart 39 kilo lambs at £62 head, 48+ kilo £75/6 head.

Prime cattle also showing large drops at Sedge today.

Why does anyone sell at sedge and Exeter...the prices always seem sh!te

 

[gone up the hill]

What was ewes like?

Average down about £4 head I think.

Thou some sheep sold in the breeding sale on Friday would have made £10/15 head more today as culls so make of that what you will.

 

[gone up the hill]

Why does anyone sell at sedge and Exeter...the prices always seem sh!te

You have 3 options

1 Sell at these markets

2 A couple of local collection centres

3 Sell deadweight.

And that's it.

Problem is if you sell deadweight and the lambs are overweight and or overfat they will get hammered and make less than the local livestock market prices.

 

[gone up the hill]

Good trade for store lambs at Blackmoor gate, didn't take much to make £60! Several pens in the high 60s
Strange times

Crazy really, today some finished lambs were making less or the same as store lambs that only need a few weeks finishing.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Store lambs trade at the cally today was kinda stick to start with, but got better as the sale went on, a few more buyer there today. A lot of lambs 50/60£bracket. One guy who buys only really nice lambs paying 65+ for lambs.

 

[Shebb90]

Store lambs trade at the cally today was kinda stick to start with, but got better as the sale went on, a few more buyer there today. A lot of lambs 50/60£bracket. One guy who buys only really nice lambs paying 65+ for lambs.

How many lambs do you get there?