Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[J 1177]

Any body know what sort of fantastic trade cattle were in Darlington, you know just to cheer myself up

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Any body know what sort of fantastic trade cattle were in Darlington, you know just to cheer myself up

I Was told good clean cattle were up and bad cattle were crap
No idea on bulls

 

[pine_guy]

Anything dairy bred is better off at Dunbia IMO. The automatic grader at ABP seems to do well on suckler bred but is hard on dairy bred. Maybe the settings need adjusted if that is possible.

Yes, I agree. And they need to be very well finished to grade well.

 

[Old Tip]

Not grass finished I presume, we finish the majority of ours off grass and find they need to be 45 kilo upwards depending on quality and there will still be 19s through them.

Yep they’ve had feed as well but not a massive amount, struggle to finish them properly here with out it, mind the one that graded as a U4 was an escapee Cheviot wether that hadn’t been seen since shearing and was still on its mother

 

[casper74]

I used to send all black and white steers to abp, then when they went automated grades went down, and the buyer for them told me then to stop sending dairy bred, so from then on all dairy bred went to dunbia or st merryn, now all go Thirsk.

 

[Gedd]

I Was told good clean cattle were up and bad cattle were crap
No idea on bulls

Everyone thought they were 15p up on the week I thought they were crap I averaged 211pkg for 583 kg average nice heifers had some big lambs on as well supposed to be a better trade useless as well 54kg average averaged £78.65 So a bad day at the office will try some lambs dead on a week or two

 

[organic]

Hereford STORE LAMBS -3916 Auctioneer -Greg Christopher
A good entry of store lambs with another large crowd of purchasers, more life to the store trade with a nice show of farming stores and strength. These lambs £2-£3 dearer on the week, with several more lambs £64 to £70, the strongest to £73, several large bunches today £67 to £70. Farming lambs also sharper on the week, although some good runs of lambs helped this trade, these £58 to £63 with plenty of lambs over £60. Medium keeping lambs similar on the week, these £54 to £57. Longer term lambs trading from £45 to £52, these looking well sold in places and others looking slightly easier. Well bred lambs seeing a premium over some harder bred types and plainer sorts. Very small and plain stores trading £30 to £40, with very few under £35. Several plainer and Mule types, those from £45 to £55 depending on strength and condition, plenty of competition on these and some in the early £40’s look well sold.
A large number of ram lambs, with nearly 1000 ram lambs forward in several runs, including a couple of large consignments, these well bid for by several purchasers. Strongest all £60 plus, topping at £69, several £63 to £66. Well bred farming sorts from £55 to £60, especially if they had condition.A smaller entry of ewe lambs following our large sale on Tuesday, these meeting good interest and topping at £100 for a super pen of North Country Mules from M/s J E & S J L James, others in the same run to £96 and £88. Smart Texel x Mules to £87, others from £75 to £82. Smaller Texel x ewe lambs £70 to £74. Suffolk x Mules to £81, with very few Suffolks forward. A larger entry is required for next week.

 

[organic]

Hereford Cull Ewes -2089 Auctioneer -Matthew Nicholls

Still a good entry of ewes selling to £148/head for the best Texel types and others at £139.50, £137, £134 and £129. Considered to be a slightly stronger trade than the previous two weeks. Still a lot of smaller ewes forward. Men for those grazing Suffolk types which were a good trade selling between £50 and £70/head depending on scale and size. Several men also looking for those Speckle and Welsh ewes, good underneath. Plenty of demand for the stronger types and those best Suffolks £80 to £95. Rams also a good trade topping at £150/head and other at £145. No less than 12 ewe buyers representing many more firms so competition guaranteed throughout. Average £53.18/head

 

[Werzle]

Hereford STORE LAMBS -3916 Auctioneer -Greg Christopher
A good entry of store lambs with another large crowd of purchasers, more life to the store trade with a nice show of farming stores and strength. These lambs £2-£3 dearer on the week, with several more lambs £64 to £70, the strongest to £73, several large bunches today £67 to £70. Farming lambs also sharper on the week, although some good runs of lambs helped this trade, these £58 to £63 with plenty of lambs over £60. Medium keeping lambs similar on the week, these £54 to £57. Longer term lambs trading from £45 to £52, these looking well sold in places and others looking slightly easier. Well bred lambs seeing a premium over some harder bred types and plainer sorts. Very small and plain stores trading £30 to £40, with very few under £35. Several plainer and Mule types, those from £45 to £55 depending on strength and condition, plenty of competition on these and some in the early £40’s look well sold.
A large number of ram lambs, with nearly 1000 ram lambs forward in several runs, including a couple of large consignments, these well bid for by several purchasers. Strongest all £60 plus, topping at £69, several £63 to £66. Well bred farming sorts from £55 to £60, especially if they had condition.A smaller entry of ewe lambs following our large sale on Tuesday, these meeting good interest and topping at £100 for a super pen of North Country Mules from M/s J E & S J L James, others in the same run to £96 and £88. Smart Texel x Mules to £87, others from £75 to £82. Smaller Texel x ewe lambs £70 to £74. Suffolk x Mules to £81, with very few Suffolks forward. A larger entry is required for next week.

Prime lambs were up and calf trade was good wasnt it? Varadkar positive after meeting boris today so good news all round ,maybe!

 

[muleman]

Not grass finished I presume, we finish the majority of ours off grass and find they need to be 45 kilo upwards depending on quality and there will still be 19s through them.

My last lot of 44's killed at 19.7 at dunbia

 

[Old Tip]

My last lot of 44's killed at 19.7 at dunbia

Much the same as St Meryn then but less haulage costs I guess

 

[glensman]

My last lot of 44's killed at 19.7 at dunbia

So to get 20.7 you'd need 46-47( if grass finished)

 

[muleman]

Much the same as St Meryn then but less haulage costs I guess

They would have been 18.7 at st merryn....but they do grade better there.

 

[muleman]

So to get 20.7 you'd need 46-47( if grass finished)

Yes Grass finished would need to be up there in my experience, i wouldnt dare send 42's

 

[S J H]

If there was demand for the apples they would of got picked. Project fear is alive and well on TFF. Irish firms were going to move there abattoirs over here along with all their staff not so long ago in a threat to beat tariffs so i stand by my comments that these staff shortages are smoke and mirrors.

Absolutely, it's a good excuse for a failing business

 

[S J H]

I am afraid Werzle you had better get a job picking apples. It is not too bad at least it is mostly clean and regular hours. If you are a good picker you can earn £100 a day without any trouble. You might even get put up in a nice caravan with all mod cons for a very reasonable price. You might have a shop on site but it might only be selling Polish or other East european food.

In Kent huge areas are now being planted with new varieties of apples and as the crop this year is down the price is very good. However the industry relies on casual labour to pick this fruit. These people have for many years come from the EU.
There is a saying that the further East you go the faster the hand to eye movement becomes. Meaning that the poorer and hungrier people tend to pick more quickly!

But @Frank-the-Wool £100 a day isn't very much money, look at other industries and you'll see the problem. Building labourers can be on £150 near here.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

But @Frank-the-Wool £100 a day isn't very much money, look at other industries and you'll see the problem. Building labourers can be on £150 near here.

Yes I agree but for an unskilled person and not that strong this is a good job as accommodation is mostly on site and no transport costs.

 

[casper74]

Thirsk Fat cattle yesterday were better than expected, Having seen the averages from Newark and Selby, I was was fearing the worst, I ave £2.14, 575 KG. I was up to £2.38 (£1420) and down to £2.01 (£1117) for a dairy bred Limi. Still not good but could of been worse.
Generally I think most people were fairly satisfied on the day given the current beef climate.
Bulls were very poor again, Good beef bred bulls £1.70 - £1.90 Dairy bred continentals £1.70-£1.50 Black and whites £1-£1.40.

 

[hubbahubba]

Any dead lambs prices for next week? Dunbia probably going up 10p to 3.60 but not confirmed yet. Should maybe be more with local mart up 10p.

Hows lambs doing? There getting harder to draw here, too many 48kg but lacking flesh now.

 

[ford4000]

Well @muleman the ones I sent to Kepak did ok and def better than live weight, they would average 42kg at home and made £68.50 a head. Reasonabley happy, one was a bit to good and one was an O, weights ranged from 18 to 21 so on par with Dunbia I thought

Market SQQ for yesterday was £1.77, I had £1.80/kg for 43.5kg texel x mules and £1.96/kg for 42.5kg more texely lambs making £83.50. Dunbia doesn't come close to that for me