Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Northeastfarmer]

I think you're right- it'll peak then drop off as they fold their arms and sit the job out.

The ethnics won’t be put off lamb

 

[livestock 1]

Folks are bound to be holding at least some hoggs back though at the moment the way they are lifting

 

[Estate fencing.]

Always wanted to try a blackie mule. Might try some this time, I’m done with swale mules

They are much better foragers and have better conformation but are nuts. We had 1500 dry Hogg’s to shear last year and christ can’t they kick!

 

[livestock 1]

They are much better foragers and have better conformation but are nuts. We had 1500 dry Hogg’s to shear last year and christ can’t they kick!

Not as easy to make a tidy job of anything associated with a blackie for me anyway

 

[Estate fencing.]

Not as easy to make a tidy job of anything associated with a blackie for me anyway

Not easy for me to make anything a tidy job.

 

[mac]

Don't know th

Don't know that figure, @mac might know. Not as many as there should be, a lot go to Dingwall and Thainstone. I will always give my local mart the first chance, I've never thought its worth shipping them south. By the time you take into account your time, haulage, weight loss I think I'm better off at local mart.

Probably about 6-8000 cattle a year I’d guess go through Quoybrae we would buy around 4-500 from there annually I also travel down to Dingwall and across to Orkney for store cattle. Probably be the best Charolais crosses and all breeds of cattle you will see in country be sold in those 3 marts along with all other breeds. Should be more cattle sold I can’t see the attraction for folk to cart cattle 100 + miles to a mart when there’s one on there doorstep.

Mac

 

[Mc115reed]

The ethnics won’t be put off lamb

I stand to be corrected but generally the British public don’t overly like lamb/ know what too do with it ... probably 1 in 15 British people buy lamb off a super market shelf (with the exception of mince of course) ...

lamb is consumed by the ethnics and they won’t eat other meat like the British consumer will just eat what ever is cheapest

 

[livestock 1]

Not easy for me to make anything a tidy job.

Father used to say there’s only a fortnight difference between a bad haircut and a good one

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Father used to say there’s only a fortnight difference between a bad haircut and a good one

Is that after he’d clipped yours with the sheep shears?

 

[livestock 1]

Is that after he’d clipped yours with the sheep shears?

Don’t joke about it! It has been known

 

[Highland Mule]

Always wanted to try a blackie mule. Might try some this time, I’m done with swale mules

13 September @ Dingwall.

 

[LCF1]

What was store cattle trade at Sedge like today?

 

[Celt83]

Is that after he’d clipped yours with the sheep shears?

That happened to my cousin, he was gobbin off to the shearers and one of them put a stripe right down the middle of his head!

I laughed myself to sleep that night!

 

[livestock 1]

That happened to my cousin, he was gobbin off to the shearers and one of them put a stripe right down the middle of his head!

I laughed myself to sleep that night!

I’m just pleased to still have my lugs left

 

[crofteress]

If your cattle are good its always worth by passing dingwall and fort William . At least they get a bed ,water and feed in the lairage

 

[Northern territory]

They are much better foragers and have better conformation but are nuts. We had 1500 dry Hogg’s to shear last year and christ can’t they kick!

We tried some once and they were cracking strong mules but didn’t settle at all . Had a fair bit of twin lamb with them as well but not really a breed thing.

 

[livestock 1]

We tried some once and they were cracking strong mules but didn’t settle at all . Had a fair bit of twin lamb with them as well but not really a breed thing.

I think blackies tend to be right or wrong. You can farm them but they don’t adapt to change as well as some others

 

[Northern territory]

I think blackies tend to be right or wrong. You can farm them but they don’t adapt to change as well as some others

I think that was it probably didn’t suit the farm. Everyone’s point about Swales though is bang on, we have as few mules as we have had for a long time.

 

[bluepower]

Milk like holsteins

Last about as long as Holsteins, if you are lucky.

 

[Top Tip.]

We used to sell them with no hopper/feed
The buyers we had liked them like that because they did well for them
We couldn’t do that now get laughed out the mart

I still do that ,call me old fashioned if you like ,but I want these sheep to shift when they go to the buyers. My top draw have gone to the same buyer now for the last good number of year and the rest go privately to a guy who after he clipped them the first year messaged me booking them for that back end. They might not be topping the market as lambs but they are topping the market as gimmers when they are sold again,this gives me great satisfaction and ensures that I have customers who want to buy.