Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Northeastfarmer]

I’ve wasted thousands of pounds putting fert on in March here. Far too early.

Yes but we are a very different area to you, we are 50m above sea

 

[livestock 1]

Yes but we are a very different area to you, we are 50m above sea

Yes an old fella once told me ‘your can only pi@@ with the c@&k you’ve got’ very true

 

[gone up the hill]

Sounds like you need a kick up the arse

I agree with you, the earlier you can get some fert on the grazing ground for sheep grazing the better but down here few grass farmers venture out with the Fert spinner untill April!

Even the arable boys don't put much on untill the end of March!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I agree with you, the earlier you can get some fert on the grazing ground for sheep grazing the better but down here few grass farmers venture out with the Fert spinner untill April!

Even the arable boys don't put much on untill the end of March!

We like it on before we start lambing if conditions are right, every year is different but if we can get on then we wouldn’t be waiting till April,

 

[livestock 1]

I put first lot on here in April and it didn’t bloody rain till end of May

 

[gone up the hill]

I put first lot on here in April and it didn’t bloody rain till end of May

No two years are ever the same weather wise.

Like now, its so damn mild down here that it feels more like a summers day than the winter!

 

[Stw88]

Pleased I didn’t take mine. Probably this colder weather has pushed folks on. I was there with lambs last week. I was surprised how many good heavy lambs were in compared to earlier weeks. Did you have blackies in?

20 tail end mules £69.50 the sort of lambs that I wouldn’t dare put on the wagon when the rest went in august privately. They had grown away canny just ran round on grass.

 

[Jerry]

That would be like us going out this week with the Fert spreader down here!

Most people don't seem to drag it out the Shed untill at least April in this part of the world for grassland!

Start grass and early dose on wheat end of Feb/mid March often.....depends on forecast and ground conditions.

Been know to spread on a frost.

 

[livestock 1]

20 tail end mules £69.50 the sort of lambs that I wouldn’t dare put on the wagon when the rest went in august privately. They had grown away canny just ran round on grass.

They are the dearest. Had some mainly tex x lambs 20? Kilo av £63.50 last week

 

[Suffolksucklers]

One of our best years yield wise was when someone upstream went early with fert, it then flooded a couple of weeks later and all ended up on our land

 

[Stw88]

They are the dearest. Had some mainly tex x lambs 20? Kilo av £63.50 last week

Little texels were very expensive!

 

[livestock 1]

Little texels were very expensive!

See any blackies sold?

 

[Stw88]

None sorry

 

[Northeastfarmer]

See any blackies sold?

Was some good blackies last week £76 (stores)

 

[Hampton]

Just curious. Sent 10 to Shrewsbury on wednesday for a Thursday kill. Hour after the wagon left the yard the agent rang in a bit if a flap trying to cancel. No reason as to why.

Always get the wagon gone early. They can’t cancel then

 

[livestock 1]

Was some good blackies last week £76 (stores)

They suit the winter here better than tex lambs

 

[Northeastfarmer]

They suit the winter here better than tex lambs

I could of bought you them

 

[gone up the hill]

They suit the winter here better than tex lambs

How do those Blackies kill out/ what is the fat grade if sent deadweight??

 

[gone up the hill]

Always get the wagon gone early. They can’t cancel then

Not always the case, i know of time's when the artic has gone far North from here with cattle and when the lorry is say 20/30 mins from the plant the factory has called the agent and cancelled the load.... ( or rather tried to! )

 

[livestock 1]

How do those Blackies kill out/ what is the fat grade if sent deadweight??

They kill out very well. Better than a mule or Suffolk. Better types have higher spec