Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[gone up the hill]

We often have enough of our own straw but no chance this year with the disastrous harvest. I'll have to get GUTH to find some to send up here. Gonna be bedding with hay soon!!

I am already bedding with hay!

 

[S J H]

That’s very true and a bit of a dilemma.

I have probably 60 ewe lambs that were too small to tup and I was going to run as shearlings and sell prob 40 of them as I don’t really need them unless I culled ewes hard post lambing.

So flog 40 if I can get £120 quid for them now or hold till summer sakes and maybe get £130??

Yes I’d do that, I couldn’t actually sell mine as they’ve been tupped (hopefully)

I think I’d soon be selling if I was aiming to sell them as dry shearlings though.

 

[thorpe]

Personally i think the days of cheap straw are over!

( and i say that as someone who buys a lot every year )

guth i agree from a growers point of view it cant afford to be cheap , at least when we put it under our cattle we get adecent return . inthe muck i mean.

 

[andybk]

I am already bedding with hay!

yea same here , one day hay one straw , seems a shame putting average hay on the floor though

 

[Sid]

given with the crap weather we currently are having

Grounds drier now than has been all winter so far!

Cool East winds have sucked the moisture from the fields

 

[Jerry]

Grounds drier now than has been all winter so far!

Cool East winds have sucked the moisture from the fields

My ground conditions are miles ahead of last year.

Barely any mud......long May it continue.

Ewes on turnips are clean, cattle outside still fine, just mud at the ring feeders.

 

[thorpe]

guth i agree from a growers point of view it cant afford to be cheap , at least when we put it under our cattle we get adecent return . inthe muck i mean.

hello guth i do enjoy our chats on here , i dont always agree with you but always enjoy reading you , hope to meet you one day.

 

[Mc115reed]

I am already bedding with hay!

Genuinely now I didn’t realise you actually farmed guth [emoji85]

I just got the impression you rode around markets talking gossip and prices and then updating tff on said gossip and prices ...

 

[Av Gorritt]

First date with mine was her riding shotgun for a wagon load of silage

We went to the Scottish borders on our honeymoon . We visited the mart at Annan ,
Lanark , and I bought a waggon of newly calved or due to calve Ayrshire heifers in Ayr. She mustn't have minded too much as we stayed married for 60 odd years !

 

[gone up the hill]

yea same here , one day hay one straw , seems a shame putting average hay on the floor though

Esp after being so short of hay/silage just two years ago.

Weird that one year we have too much straw like that year but very short of hay/silage and then a year or so later we end up with far too much hay/silage but very short of straw!

 

[Sid]

Esp after being so short of hay/silage just two years ago.

Weird that one year we have too much straw like that year but very short of hay/silage and then a year or so later we end up with far too much hay/silage but very short of straw!

What did you hay make in the auction today?

 

[livestock 1]

We went to the Scottish borders on our honeymoon . We visited the mart at Annan ,
Lanark , and I bought a waggon of newly calved or due to calve Ayrshire heifers in Ayr. She mustn't have minded too much as we stayed married for 60 odd years !

Haha I have a bit longer to go yet then!
Does it get better or worse???

 

[farmeronecow]

Less than the few weeks pre Xmas i reckon.

Trade was certainly strong for store lambs, top i saw was i think £128 head. pen after pen £110/120 etc.

I can beat that, I had one at £139 at Sedgemoor!

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I can beat that, I had one at £139 at Sedgemoor!

And to think that some said that sheep farmers voting for Brexit was like turkeys voting for Christmas.

 

[Optimus]

Can you not find other things to bed with? Seems a waste to use hay.

 

[thorpe]

Can you not find other things to bed with? Seems a waste to use hay.

yea like straw . but like i said it aint there!

 

[Optimus]

yea like straw . but like i said it aint there!

Plenty in Aberdeenshire/blackisle.not sure on haulage though

 

[beefandsleep]

FFS. I can’t keep up with this thread as it is without folk talking about straw and hay, the weather, fecking pigs.

 

[hubbahubba]

Very dry but weathered hay at £90 or inside barley rounds at £130. Whats the better value to bed cattle with? If theres any weeds in the hay could they germinate on clean pasture after spreading as dung?

 

[hubbahubba]

Dunbia 5.30 for lambs.