livestock 1
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I bet they were all good cattle though when you got a look at them
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
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livestock 1
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Any crack from Carlisle today?
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Heard cheap
livestock 1
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Bloody knew I should have gone. Was catching up on work here and saw a neighbor go past with a wagon load thought they must have been cheap
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Was told by a friend who was selling there....can’t tell you anymore
livestock 1
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I got a hiding at the last sale
You have paid £900 for some longhorns and they won’t be going till spring.i can no see how they will pay
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Not sure he said they were longhorns...
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Will be around the £120+ mark for anything decent.
Will be the dearest breeding sale this season that is for sure!
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Spring lambs down 15pk to £4-30
No idea if its correct or not but was told today that the aim is to get the UK beef price for clean cattle down to as near as £3 a kilo as possible!
No idea if its correct or not but was told today that the aim is to get the UK beef price for clean cattle down to as near as £3 a kilo as possible!
Northeastfarmer
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I don’t think you need to be Larry goodman to see that’s what they are aiming for
gone up the hill
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- Devon
The problem is there cannot be a revaluation like you suggest because if that happens there will be NO UK beef sector to talk about left, calf rearers cannot cut purchase price anymore because if they do the dairy farmers will just send the calves to kill, even a NZ dairy mongrel bull calve is worth £30/40 on the hook, and there is very little if any scope for calve rearers to cut costs and do the job right!
End of the day with current input prices that are only going to get higher every year no one can rear and sell 12/18+ month old 400/500 kilo cattle for around the £600 mark and cover costs let alone make a profit and if the beef price stays anywhere near where it currently is that is all finishers will be able to pay for store cattle.
Well there won’t be many men keeping beef cows if that’s the case.
Constantly hear the meat men saying they need more cattle but then the price is driven down as costs rise.
Thank feck for the Muslim community and Europe for keeping the sheep industry alive.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
There is still room for continental calves to come back in price by a bit yet the dairy farmer won’t shoot a BB calf if it’s worth £100. The B/W calves may soon have to be sold/given away and not shot on farm to satisfy milk buyers after recent television coverage. Many Scottish dairy bulls are still shot at birth to avoid the cost of BVD testing and the delay to selling them. I say could happen not should by the way
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Fri bull calves here are making as much if not more than contx/ native calves.
Plenty of Fri bull calves are being killed every week for dog food and to add with ewe meat for late night takeaways and it doesn't take much of a calve to come back to £50 net.
Cost a lot of ££ and a lot of time to rear calves correctly in the first month of their life, very few dairy farmers will bother doing it if good calves that are 30/42 days old are only making £50/100 head for the best calves! just not worth their time and they will send them to kill instead!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
They want more cattle because that will help to depress prices even further, they also want the cattle but really only want to be paying cull cow prices for clean cattle!
Longhorns?? Limousines
- Location
- Northumberland
NS lamb nearly all up at large marts yesterday.
gone up the hill
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Sedge had a breeding sale two/three weeks ago, Suffolkx mules ( good sheep ) 2 tooth got to £126 head, dorset 2 tooth's £130+ and a very smart pen of ewe lambs also got to around £126 head.