Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[ISCO]

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

The problem.with newspaper adverts in north east anyway is the costs are extortionate. Marts need to rely more on website advertising than papers in future.

 

[Shebb90]

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.

Do you know what store lambs was making on Friday? Meduim lambs?

 

[andybk]

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.

or a few local markets and get your fingers burnt even worse when the buyers share them out , or buy to take to sedge a few weeks later

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Cally had about 2000lmbs+feeding ewes. .

 

[Shebb90]

Cally had about 2000lmbs+feeding ewes. .

Fair few then. Is grazing ewe job any good? Was thinking about doing some this year?

 

[aangus]

Fair few then. Is grazing ewe job any good? Was thinking about doing some this year?

If you can keep them until March they should be ok

 

[livestock 1]

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

That’s why the deckers roll from south to north

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Will be money to be made on old ewes you would think!?, fleshy ewes are still ok trade. Don't think brexit will put the dampners on them come april. You can pick up good mule feeders for around 40/45£. Don't seem crazy at that.

 

[livestock 1]

Will be money to be made on old ewes you would think!?, fleshy ewes are still ok trade. Don't think brexit will put the dampners on them come april. You can pick up good mule feeders for around 40/45£. Don't seem crazy at that.

Wouldn’t take much upturn to make them sorts 70+

 

[cattleman123]

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

All the buyers on fire

 

[muleman]

Things look encouraging for the suckled calf sales anyways....i see Darlington had a sale yesterday,small calves £12/1300....many vendors showing increased averages on the year.

 

[pine_guy]

Things look encouraging for the suckled calf sales anyways....i see Darlington had a sale yesterday,small calves £12/1300....many vendors showing increased averages on the year.

I’ll add some positive as well. Carlisle’s average was up for prime lambs yesterday, (from report, I wast there) and Wigton were asking for lambs last night on facebook “at buyers request”

 

[Henarar]

Things look encouraging for the suckled calf sales anyways....i see Darlington had a sale yesterday,small calves £12/1300....many vendors showing increased averages on the year.

when you say small what sort of age/weight would they be ?

 

[muleman]

when you say small what sort of age/weight would they be ?

6 or 7 months up to 10 at a guess,just seen pics

 

[Henarar]

6 or 7 months up to 10 at a guess,just seen pics

my goodness, a job to see much more than half that down here

 

[Werzle]

Things look encouraging for the suckled calf sales anyways....i see Darlington had a sale yesterday,small calves £12/1300....many vendors showing increased averages on the year.

Slightly misleading post, Darlington did have a good sale but some of the suckled calfs were halter led show potential and the averages would be £800ish at best.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Things look encouraging for the suckled calf sales anyways....i see Darlington had a sale yesterday,small calves £12/1300....many vendors showing increased averages on the year.

I saw 1 make £1300...the champ

 

[Werzle]

I saw 1 make £1300...the champ

That was the sale leader. Top price for store hfrs not in the show was £1085 for 18-20mth things which is more realistic of trade

 

[Northeastfarmer]

That was the sale leader. Top price for store hfrs not in the show was £1085 for 18-20mth things which is more realistic of trade

I know, I watched all the suckled calves

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Market reports are all the same, fat sheep sell to 100£, that's just for one, the rest making around 70.