livestock 1
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The store markets in the north sell thousands of Prime lambs that go straight to kill whilst store lambs appear in the fat. Prime lambs often make more put though the stores
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- Thread starter TFF
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- Location
- Mendips Somerset
agree BUT extra breeding hoggs will be killed , a lot of breeding hoggs would have made £30-50 more in spring in the fat and If ewes stay up till sept again can see a lot of them gone as well , wont be any lambs about most of 2020 and on , especially if we can tap into the asian and usa market post B
again goves enviro slant on the future , might see low stocking rate sheep encouraged to keep landscape looking good , and the recent anti plastic push might see wool make a comeback , 8 or 10 years time might be interesting for sheep keepers
You could be right, tho heard that 90per cent of lambs are export? Would that be right?
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
Export into the EU Single market. Yes.
We bought a few today, which has zapped selling some big steers before next Thursday. Buggerit.
So 15 Berluddy sheep on 100 acres. Should do well.
At hallworthy?Export into the EU Single market. Yes.
We bought a few today, which has zapped selling some big steers before next Thursday. Buggerit.
So 15 Berluddy sheep on 100 acres. Should do well.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No that is NOT correct, the figure is much lower than that and even then mostly its certain cuts that we don't use that are exported and cuts/ legs etc that we use a lot more of than we can supply are imported from places like NZ.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
When subs go ( which looks very likely ) then lambs will have to be making the above figures ( if not more ) and if they are not there will be very little of a British sheep flock left ( unless input prices fall a good 50% across the board from current levels which is very unlikely to happen )
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No grader at Exeter and because they have been selling store lambs in the same pens as prime lambs more and more people are taking store lambs on Mondays.
No good the auctioneer just banging the drum week after week like he has been doing for the last 2/3 months in the newsletter asking people not to bring store lambs on a Monday as it clearly isn't working! he now needs to do something like other markets locally do to try and discourage people from bringing store lambs into the prime market on a Monday!
The trouble is when you have so many plain lambs in it will quite often pull the price down of the lambs that are correctly finished as well.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Export into the EU Single market. Yes.
We bought a few today, which has zapped selling some big steers before next Thursday. Buggerit.
So 15 Berluddy sheep on 100 acres. Should do well.
Next Thurs will be the 7th day surely @matthew if you bought today?
sherg
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- Location
- shropshire
sounds like he needs a grader on the way to the scales it would help the farmers in their stock selection going forwards as well
- Location
- Northumberland
Do you go by Killhope and Alston?
- Location
- Northumberland
My Father used to say if you complained,they would go back in the pen and mark some more.
- Location
- Northumberland
We need to know the up to date export figures compared to last year.That will give us a clue,especially the tonnage going to France.
Lovegoodstock
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- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Hope and can see lamb flying up next spring, with numbers definitely lower but maybe not as dramatic as people think from last spring, but like me I think plenty killed early and a touch lighter when price was flirting around the 500 ppk. The only thing I wonder may cover this shortfall is all these running lambs at sales that struggled to find a home? Many in south got stuck with last years runners as they would sell at a loss, being shortsighted that it actually could have been one of their better years with the forthcoming crash in price of lambs. So many struggled to find homes, or bought for nothing by people that didn't really want them, or stayed with breeders that don't actually want them. After last years poor shearling sales no one will sit on them in winter, even if grass is plenty and a kind winter, if hogs rise they will be coming out, I don't know but is there enough numbers of these things to depress trade?
muleman
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We have 90 mule gimmers we culdnt sell at the early sales ,couldnt get a bid a £52....they were our last 3 pens, were quite small at sale time a couple of months since but have really thrived since then....tailed them out other week and weighed them,one or 2 were 50 kilos.
We put tup in with them yesterday and will see how they go on....but if prime hoggs are £120+ in spring it will be tempting to cash a few!
muleman
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Yes i went...it was a real quality show of cattle,think Kirkby will be unrivalled anywhere in the country now for quality of store and breeding cattle,seems to be attracting the best now from up scotland and all over.
Trade was very good for the best heifers and calves which made from £3000 up to £3500. Just thought the ones just below the best were a bit less thn last year ...£1500 to £2000 and some looked very good value,maybe those with very strong calves which werent making £1500.
In calf heifers were a tremendous trad ,any amount were £2000 to £3000 but the quality was outstanding....think @sjewart was there buying some quality heifers!
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
I thought it was 6 clear days from an 'On' movement, so that you could use the same market?
These steers are a private sale anyway, but can't be 'Off' until next week now. We've got until mid december on the TB test ..... as long as we don't keep bringing berluddy sheeps on.
livestock 1
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Yes haha
livestock 1
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The last story I heard was that 80% of lamb exported goes into Europe and we import similar amounts as we export. We import the better cuts generally and export more of the cheaper cuts as GUTH said.