Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Stw88]

Neighbour had stores at lazonby, mules very dear! His clean up 69 and 65! (They wouldn’t be very big!) store keeps tempting me but deadweight lambs were pence short of £90 on Monday.

 

[Ceri]

Are you sure you weighed that correctly? Or do you have some other rocket fuel feed?

What weight are they to start with and what weight when finished?
We increase feed rates every month on heifers and steers that are at grass from June and feed around an extra kg every month from June, so by now those that are left are on about 6kg a day or 180kg a month and will be putting on about 30kg a month.

That's what I thought.... Those crackers have eaten more than 200kg surely.........!!??

 

[gone up the hill]

Tbf when the market manager starts reading the prices out everything is well over €2/kg . Weights were awful , most weanlings struggled to get over 300kg. He was stressed out fairish, poor old sod.

1 Euro = 0.90 £ today i think so for a 300 kilo animal that is £540... You wont buy much if anything for that money here currently if its suckler bred! Like for like here would be another £140+ head at least!

Not surprised the poor bugger is stressed, all those animals in the market and no doubt half or more of the normal buyers cant bid or get cut off when they are bidding, sounds like most markets there had similar problems/ trade today.

 

[Highland Mule]

DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (October, 22nd) sold 5,157 breeding & feeding
sheep at the annual sale of N.C. Cheviot ewes & gimmers.
Gimmers (987) averaged £86.42 (last year £95.13) and sold to £210 gross for Cheviots from
No 1 Wester Alligan, Torridon.
Breeding ewes (3,598) averaged £58.42 (last year £62.23) and sold to £200 gross for Beltex
crosses from 9 Wester Muckernich, Tore.
Feeding ewes (445) averaged £45.94 (last year £48.41) and sold to £88 gross for Texel crosses
from Ose Farm, Struan.
Lambs (127) sold to £69 gross for Texel crosses from 17 Mellon Charles, Aultbea.
“Both gimmers and ewes met a firm trade, while slightly easier than the previous sale.”
Other leading prices per head:
Gimmers: Chev – Newton of Ferintosh, Conon Bridge, £200, 1 Diabaig, Torridon, £160,
Shieldaig, Strathcarron, £160, 2 Skelpick, Bettyhill, £158; TexX – 120 Newton of Ferintosh,
Mulbuie, £180, Keppoch Farm, Dundonnell, £155, & £150, Smerral Farm, Bower, £140 (thrice);
SuffX – Smerral Farm, £158; DorX – 9 Wester Muckernich, £115; BF – Craigard Cottage,
Langal, £100; LlyX – Balmaglaster Farm, Spean Bridge, £95; Mule – East Croft Roy,
Newtonmore, £92.
Correct ewes: Chev – 2 Skelpick, £170, & £165, 246 Torrisdale, Thruso, £170, 200
Kinlochbervie, Lairg, £140; BeltX – 9 Wester Muckernich, £120, 2 Skelpick, £112; TexX –
Keppoch Farm, £114, 5C Balnabeen, Conon Bridge, £100; ZwbX – 9 Wester Muckernich, £100;
LlyX – Balmaglaster Farm, £90.
Broken mouth ewes: TexX – 5C Balnabeen, £70, Upper Gartally, Drumnadrochit, £59; AbfX –
Kintradwell Estate, Brora, £68; Chev – Viewbay, Munlochy, £68, 68 Foindle, Lairg, £63, Rillosk,
Garve, £63, Dorrery, Scotscalder, £61.
Feeding ewes: Chev – Dundregga Croft, Glenmoriston, £78, Upper Gartally, £75, Dorrery, £69;
TexX – Ose Farm, Struan, £58, 6/10 Airdens, Bonar Bridge, £58.

 

[jendan]

Do you need a “name” for the better prices at longtown? That was our assumption.

I dont think Longtown is the place if you have really good store lambs.JE would buy the lot,and has hardly anyone to push him.Hexham would be much better,with a few Yorkshire buyers there with more money.

 

[Jim75]

I dont think Longtown is the place if you have really good store lambs.JE would buy the lot,and has hardly anyone to push him.Hexham would be much better,with a few Yorkshire buyers there with more money.

talking feeding/cull ewes.

 

[jendan]

No comment from this end

He puts a bottom in the market,and i think the mart will do everything they can to keep him buying.

 

[jendan]

I don’t know but I had an answerphone message from one of the auctioneers this afternoon saying stores were a good trade compared to fat so I assumed a touch back

Breeding ewes a touch easier at Hexham today,especially at the start.Although still too dear for me.I could do with a few Swales or Blackies to make the numbers up for the 2 tups i have.Eyed up a few Swale gimmers,vendor passed out mid £80s,said he wanted £110. Tups seemed very dear for what was there.

 

[livestock 1]

Breeding ewes a touch easier at Hexham today,especially at the start.Although still too dear for me.I could do with a few Swales or Blackies to make the numbers up for the 2 tups i have.Eyed up a few Swale gimmers,vendor passed out mid £80s,said he wanted £110. Tups seemed very dear for what was there.

I could do with a few too. Same applies the ones I’ve seen are far too dear. Tups get worse quality at this time of year and the price just goes up.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

1 Euro = 0.90 £ today i think so for a 300 kilo animal that is £540... You wont buy much if anything for that money here currently if its suckler bred! Like for like here would be another £140+ head at least!

Not surprised the poor bugger is stressed, all those animals in the market and no doubt half or more of the normal buyers cant bid or get cut off when they are bidding, sounds like most markets there had similar problems/ trade today.

Goodman will be loving this, filling his feedlots cheap, and when he starts pulling the price to absorb the tariff in the new year if there’s no deal he’ll just tell feeders you’ve had your stores cheaper so you can sell them cheaper fat

 

[digger64]

Not anymore for surepotential ssed this year walking down the alleyways and the vendors saying "they've been pulled off their mothers for a month now", then getting them home and the poor things crying worse than the day my wife dropped off our son in preschool for the first time!

I've never understood the attraction of paying big prices for these potential disasters regardless of how smart they look on the day .

 

[livestock 1]

I've never understood the attraction of paying big prices for these potential disasters regardless of how smart they look on the day .

It makes the bigger stores look cheap. Can’t blame folk for producing them though good luck to them. I still think the key to suckler cow productivity is to get calves away as soon as possible for as much as possible. Money back in sooner and less feed. Less unnecessary clutter running about

 

[livestock 1]

I dont think Longtown is the place if you have really good store lambs.JE would buy the lot,and has hardly anyone to push him.Hexham would be much better,with a few Yorkshire buyers there with more money.

Last year the stores there weren’t that exciting to be fair not until around now anyway. Until the welchmen and a few more from down the road start appearing it’s not fantastic. Only a few farmers and dealers from up here otherwise. If someone is missing it’s very noticeable. Having said that I haven’t found anywhere better to sell. Carlisle is no dearer Hexham have better lambs than mine so I will stick at it

 

[digger64]

It makes the bigger stores look cheap. Can’t blame folk for producing them though good luck to them. I still think the key to suckler cow productivity is to get calves away as soon as possible for as much as possible. Money back in sooner and less feed. Less unnecessary clutter running about

Totally agree , and no doubt on some places facilities may not be availiable to split them easily , but surely those that can and do should be rewarded in theory anyway , or is feeding cattle just a hobby or vanity project ? Nuflor and Metacam ain't cheap nor is time either .

 

[Optimus]

When folk buy these weaned calves, do they get much problems with pneumonia?

 

[Skintagain]

Last year the stores there weren’t that exciting to be fair not until around now anyway. Until the welchmen and a few more from down the road start appearing it’s not fantastic. Only a few farmers and dealers from up here otherwise. If someone is missing it’s very noticeable. Having said that I haven’t found anywhere better to sell. Carlisle is no dearer Hexham have better lambs than mine so I will stick at it

You tried Gisburn?

 

[Celt83]

I've never understood the attraction of paying big prices for these potential disasters regardless of how smart they look on the day .

We only buy a few of the" top shelf" ones, I wish we could by all the best ones as they will commander a premium when we sell them.

There are dangers and risks in anything you do in life, you've just got to minimise as much as possible and take a chance! That's how I proposed to my wife!

 

[Celt83]

When folk buy these weaned calves, do they get much problems with pneumonia?

Stress and pneumonia go hand in hand I think.

 

[T7.wab]

When folk buy these weaned calves, do they get much problems with pneumonia?

I buy some. Get a intranasal VC, dose and cliped. Then some might need a jag of alamycin a few days later norm dont look back after that

 

[livestock 1]

You tried Gisburn?

No never been.