Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[andybk]

Liveweight seems to be much stronger this week.

A50 extension gives a window for export , will cimb now for a few weeks ,)i hope) suck lambs will be sticky in june now , hmm creep on or not ?all bets off if it gets voted down again next week

 

[neilo]

Liveweight seems to be much stronger this week.

Really? It certainly wasn’t in Welshpool on Monday from what I saw.

 

[gone up the hill]

A50 extension gives a window for export , will cimb now for a few weeks ,)i hope) suck lambs will be sticky in june now , hmm creep on or not ?all bets off if it gets voted down again next week

Opps I was actually talking about cattle in that reply but of course thankfully sheep are on the up as well.

I think sheep will be okay until Easter regardless of what the self centred MP's decide but even if they do vote it down I expect the EU will grant the 3 month extension on the 29th March at about 10pm!

 

[gone up the hill]

Really? It certainly wasn’t in Welshpool on Monday from what I saw.

Sorry i was talking about cattle but sheep are a shade stronger no doubt about it.

 

[gone up the hill]

£ has dropped a lot today apparently so hopefully that will help the sheep job.

 

[sherg]

A50 extension gives a window for export , will cimb now for a few weeks ,)i hope) suck lambs will be sticky in june now , hmm creep on or not ?all bets off if it gets voted down again next week

What happens if they don't vote for her deal, are they brave enough for a game of bluff with the eu? the hoggets desperately need a pick me up at the moment

 

[exmoor dave]

45s at £87.50
Dog ruff, 40s with a bit of meat on them at £78
Happy with that.
Anything over 45kgs looked cheap though!
Cutcombe Exmoor.

Cull ewes not bad at all either, just had my prices text through. Happy enough

 

[muleman]

Ring chock full first thing when the show beast were being sold and beast looked very dear early on but fell away imo as the day went on. Wouldn’t like to have had a late ballot. Definite shortage of buyers, the same men have always bought our cattle for years and a lot of them weren’t even there so a lot of new names on the list. Uncertain times though.

reminds me of what the H and H auctioneers told me before the mule gimmer lamb sale last september when they were trying to get customers for lambs and we thought job was gonna be sticky....his words...."even the bad payers wont tek any!"
That was the moment we thought the job might not be great!

 

[livestock 1]

Pound has dropped against the euro today. Interestingly the pound has dropped 20% against the US dollar in the last 5 years which possibly indicates the euro has been slipping at a similar rate

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

£ has dropped a lot today apparently so hopefully that will help the sheep job.

The pound sadly hasn't moved much at all. I also wonder what beef prices you look at as the AHDB market reports show that beef liveweight has been lower every day this week.
Hoggets are gently rising but are very much dampened by the high numbers of heavy and fat hoggets being sold.

 

[andybk]

Anyone got any beef prices from frome ? one of my landlords takes some most weeks , just said he was very disappointed yesterday , "good cattle given away"

 

[Timbo]

The pound sadly hasn't moved much at all. I also wonder what beef prices you look at as the AHDB market reports show that beef liveweight has been lower every day this week.
Hoggets are gently rising but are very much dampened by the high numbers of heavy and fat hoggets being sold.

At last someone in the real world.

 

[AvonValleyFarmer]

That’s a long trek for Tustians! I guess they wouldn’t be long getting the lorry on the M40 though, then just 4(?) hours up the motorway?

Tustians had lambs in Rugby Monday too, smart stock to be fair.

 

[muleman]

Some came from Aberdeen...that’ll be 6 hours

an arctic lorry load comes from isle of man aswell....£4000 just for the wagon....must be a bad trade where they come from!

 

[Timbo]

Another 10p fall on beef predicted for next week. (Dead)

 

[livestock 1]

Another 10p fall on beef predicted for next week. (Dead)

Not good

 

[Farmer1001]

Anyone got any beef prices from frome ? one of my landlords takes some most weeks , just said he was very disappointed yesterday , "good cattle given away"

Frome is one of the worst places to "market" beef, you only take them there to sell them.

 

[Henarar]

Frome is one of the worst places to "market" beef, you only take them there to sell them.

in comparison to ?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

an arctic lorry load comes from isle of man aswell....£4000 just for the wagon....must be a bad trade where they come from!

So surmising it was full (400) that’s £10 per lamb
There’s only one abattoir in the IOM and the government sets the price...hence why they’ll send them over the water

 

[gone up the hill]

Another 10p fall on beef predicted for next week. (Dead)

Who is predicting that?

The problem for the next week or so for buyers is that they have no idea what is going to happen with the B word as anything could happen so prices could well be quite jittery between now and then.

Some talk now that even the tariffs the UK government announced last week in the event of a no deal are incorrect and will change but to what no one seems to know! utter shambles!

Be intresting to see how markets fare today for cattle/ lambs.