Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Least they want them
Should of said stand on and you can have them?
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
They would of said two words and the second one would of been “off”
I currently have more grass than last year at this point in time. Key this year was we actually had a spring and grass growth late winter was good.
Having said that give it another 2 weeks of dry and things will start to tighten.
I should be able to make twice as much haylage this year compared to last which will be a relief!
That includes the stirks I believe.
Trade was down across the board in the store ring but well bred suckler cattle saw the smallest drop and all things considered were selling very well.
Plenty of smaller sorts in the store ring 18/24 months selling between £350 and £550 head, even strong dairy x bred heifers were struggling to make it past the £650/700 head mark.
One company is now fully booked up until around the 20th of June for cattle and predictions are that the beef price will drop another 10/15pk after next weeks price cut in the next month or so.
Good news thou is that the SW will get some decent and much needed rain over the next few days
I’d love to know what rain forcast you are looking at as none of mine are showing much at all!
beltextexel
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- Scorton, North Yorkshire
What were the cattle like from Barkers, first in the ring I think.
I have been to two breeding cattle sales this week,Dingwall on Wednesday and Thainstone today,trade in Dingwall for the Luings was tremendous with the bullers averaging over £2000. The commercials in both marts were over £2000 for any cow or hfr plus calf units that you would want to take home and with a good show of cattle in both marts the most of them were over £2000.
had e nuff
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- Durham
Crazy
livestock 1
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They were good plenty of outfits over £2000 one was £2900 a lot around £1800 a lot of second calvers or young cows. Most had very good calves with them. Any older ones looked dearer my mate wanted some old cows to split but too dear for that job. A Welch dealer bought most of them a lot around the £1800 plus looked dear at the time but in reflection they were cheap on the day. Bull was £4300 Clarragh Franco sire same as one of our stock bulls 8 years old still mobile good bull. Progeny sold him seen before went to same man. He landed over when I was trying to buy heifers and calves later and was laughing as the trade went up. Showed me the sheet seemed content what he had bought. He had 20 out of the previous sale I was at. The lad selling them seemed pleased with the trade. Why were they there? One of the lots of stock cows were there due to loss of rented ground can’t remember which one
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livestock 1
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I’ve seen something about that too
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
I’ve had a bad year...where’s my share
livestock 1
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I always have a bad year up here
I was told that they were only on £4/kg for lamb can anyone confirm?
There usually on more than us for lamb, so I can't see that being true, although the ewes are a better trade here
Northeastfarmer
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I was told ewes were a better trade over there, and they haven’t been sending any across the water...
livestock 1
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They are still coming. The two regular lads were at Longtown on Thursday with deckers of really heavy ewes
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Just what I was told a couple of weeks ago...the price was better over there
Hoggs and nsl back £1.30 pk over there, firms are sh#ting on there own farmers and importing foreign lamb. Talk on agriland is upto 40% of lamb being slaughtered is foreign . Madness when there goverment is handing out 100million when they should just stop the imports