Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[Anymulewilldo]

You are very fortunate. The further north you come the harder it is to get buyers to come up here, it’s not unusual to have sales of sheep with maybe three thousand sheep with one main buyer and a couple of minor buyers especially as you get later in the season.

I arrived at a sale in the north last year, I won’t say where. It’s not really fair. There were 1700 store lambs and feeding ewes on offer. There was a bloke buying best lambs, 1 buying crap ewes, another buying crap lambs and 1 other buyer in the middle. That left a huge void in the sale (which I happily filled and pushed everything on) I found out afterwards that the main buyer up there had been detained and couldn’t attend the sale. If I hadn’t rolled up that sale would have been a complete wash out.
I’d only seen something like it once before when 3 of us were at a small store lamb-sale in Yorkshire. Luckily for the vendors there were only 600 lambs in and 2 of us wanted 400 each plus the other man taking tups & swale wethers. But nothing quite like in the north.

The next sale I was at the main man was back and we had a right pushing match over all the middle too better type stock. I’d have thought the vendors were happy that day. But that buyer was again on terms of accounts! I buy on 4 but they are all for us!

 

[livestock 1]

Some would do well to remember it’s an auction and anyone can bid at anything they please.
No one forces them to bid so no need to take the huff or get stroppy.
I find if you are a good judge of value it seems to pee some off completely

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Some would do well to remember it’s an auction and anyone can bid at anything they please.
No one forces them to bid so no need to take the huff or get stroppy.
I find if you are a good judge of value it seems to pee some off completely

Although the way some folk go at it at times you’d swear blind it was the very last sale ever anywhere in the country...

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Some would do well to remember it’s an auction and anyone can bid at anything they please.
No one forces them to bid so no need to take the huff or get stroppy.
I find if you are a good judge of value it seems to pee some off completely

And personally I think that when I start bidding it’s only fair that everyone else stops and let’s me buy what I want...

That doesn’t apply when I’m selling though.

 

[J 1177]

Buyer. Doing his normal trick taking over I hear, won’t be long until other buyers drift away, followed by the sellers

Aye id heard that. One or two buyers peed off

 

[J 1177]

By outbidding everyone else or running everybody too death in the stock. Every sale, without fail. After a few weeks the other buyers get sick of either drawing blanks or paying severely over the odds. So they go elsewhere. This leaves the aforementioned buyer with very little competition and he cleans up some very cheap cattle too make up for the dearer ones bought earlier. It’s a long term strategy and a very dirty trick to start on. Good auctioneers don’t allow it too start. But the trouble is the buyer is so useful as they will just keep taking dear cattle. Up until the point where they have no other buyers.

Spot on

 

[Gedd]

Barker, armo ?

The lattet

 

[Martyn]

Any idea on prices for pure bred quality Dorset's hogs with char/texel lambs at foot, I have a large group and think we may pull out of sheep for a while?

 

[Timbo]

ABP on £3.10 for cows this week.

Same as last then

 

[Hilly]

ABP on £3.10 for cows this week.

Ppk is irrelevant with them .

 

[casper74]

Aye id heard that. One or two buyers peed off

I am up against 1 of the 2 previous mentioned names at a few store sales, and from my point of view i'm better against 1 man buying on 10 accounts than I am against 10 different farmers, only my opinion.

 

[Hilly]

I am up against 1 of the 2 previous mentioned names at a few store sales, and from my point of view i'm better against 1 man buying on 10 accounts than I am against 10 different farmers, only my opinion.

It is what it is , sellers can’t have everything their own way nor can buyers, just the way of the world these days marts out of fashion a little bit I’d rather someone gave a dealer an order as not give him an order.

 

[casper74]

It is what it is , sellers can’t have everything their own way nor can buyers, just the way of the world these days marts out of fashion a little bit I’d rather someone gave a dealer an order as not give him an order.

As long as everyone pays for what they buy it's a marketplace where anyone can buy and sell what they like, AND that pay bit is the big problem and "special" buyers getting different terms to others.

 

[Hilly]

As long as everyone pays for what they buy it's a marketplace where anyone can buy and sell what they like, AND that pay bit is the big problem and "special" buyers getting different terms to others.

Yes , just let them get on pretty sh!t living on credit like that all the time, If win a bid I pay before they on the trailer end of .

 

[Mc115reed]

Am I the only one that goes too a market myself.... waves my hand about for what I want, 7 times out of 10 I get what I want for a bit more than I was planning on spending... then I go too the office and pay my tab and f**k off home without speaking too anybody and no politics at all ?

 

[Hilly]

Am I the only one that goes too a market myself.... waves my hand about for what I want, 7 times out of 10 I get what I want for a bit more than I was planning on spending... then I go too the office and pay my tab and fudge off home without speaking too anybody and no politics at all ?

No.

 

[casper74]

Am I the only one that goes too a market myself.... waves my hand about for what I want, 7 times out of 10 I get what I want for a bit more than I was planning on spending... then I go too the office and pay my tab and fudge off home without speaking too anybody and no politics at all ?

You mean, no glaring across the ring, no adding another £20 to a beast at the last minute, no having a bidding war against someone you dislike, no helping a mate out to get a bit more money when you know who's going to get them knocked down to, no calling the auctioneer names when he misses your bid, What's the point in going

 

[Estate fencing.]

Am I the only one that goes too a market myself.... waves my hand about for what I want, 7 times out of 10 I get what I want for a bit more than I was planning on spending... then I go too the office and pay my tab and fudge off home without speaking too anybody and no politics at all ?

Christ what a boring day out!

 

[sheepwise]

Some would do well to remember it’s an auction and anyone can bid at anything they please.
No one forces them to bid so no need to take the huff or get stroppy.
I find if you are a good judge of value it seems to pee some off completely

I know, find it unbelievable auctioneers would ever ban a buyer unless a bad payer obviously. Wonder what the sellers think.

 

[livestock 1]

I know, find it unbelievable auctioneers would ever ban a buyer unless a bad payer obviously. Wonder what the sellers think.

In this case they are right to do that.
Not fair to say anything wrong about him but it’s a strategic manoeuvre