Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
It’s a joke really. The lockdown/social distance is simply now a farce
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
Most markets are putting statements out because people attending can be traced ,and if one goes down with the virus any markets they have been too will be shut down for 14 days. Markets would love to welcome everybody back but are still asking people not to attend unless they really need to. We will be stuffed if markets start shutting. Still far to many numptys just turning up for chat .
muleman
Member
Sheep i put through the mart this week i seriously think i shudda been there to keep an eye on proceedings!
casper74
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Thirsk cattle on ? ? ? today. Over 30 clean over £2.50, top around £2.75. A good day to be selling.
casper74
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
TT me over 30 cattle were over £2.50, I don't know how many more were between £2.40 and £2.50, probably another 30-40 from what I saw sold. I saw a few clean sold including my own some cattle today would be adding up to near £1700.
- Location
- Hereford
One of our neighbours always smelt like he had !I have a neighbour who if you said you’d sh!t yourself that morning he would have done it twice before breakfast
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muleman
Member
What did you want...5.70?!
Want to be nearer £5 after Darlington trade today
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
They write a good report just read it
- Location
- north Wales
I had £2.32 average for 41kg lambs in StAsaph today, bang on the average. That's almost £20 more per lamb than the same time last year!! Makes a difference on a full trailer load
exmoorromney
Member
Not lighter lambs hindering it... unfinished lambs...
A lamb can be 35kg and not finished but folk will still send it because people don’t seem to handle sheep anymore they put them in the scales and then cry the market has ripped them off when they’ve not had a good pay day...
generally people who send deadweight handle there lambs a lot more as they know what spec feels like and won’t send unfinished lambs
- Location
- West Wales
Finish is more important than weight. At the current prices it’s a compromise for sure!
I’ve got mule whethers that can be a 4L at 34kg this time of year yet also running texels and charollais which need to be 44kg to be a 3L/H. In the autumn those mule whethers will grow bone structure and then become 45kg 3L’s again. I’ve tried multiple times to find out the average age of lambs when they put on bone structure but have never found anything on it. At a guess it’s 18-24 weeks
They know what they’re doing aswell, I had a lamb was nowhere near fit but weighed 38kg so I sent it with a batch of 20 that had a lovely finish on them too market and they pulled it out and sold it seperate and it made £15 less than the rest
livestock 1
Member
As a rule lambs graded for dw don’t need the amount of finish lw marts do.
That’s what applies in this neck of the woods.
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