Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[livestock 1]

I bought a load last year, only touched 1 of them at lambing time, checked them over in the pens and the majority only had 1 tooth missing... with prices the way they’re gonna be this year for replacements am I mad too consider running them again? [emoji85]

Depends if they make it or not??

 

[Northern territory]

Are they decent number herds or just odds and ends?
Who has them advertised?

30 cows I think, but another one coming up I think. More mixed farms packing up I think.

 

[gone up the hill]

Neither negative or Positive just converting euro to pounds and showing how much the Irish screw their own farmers.
Over a hundred pounds difference on a carcase is still a significant amount.
It is much more interesting than Lime and Ph levels!!

Frank, trade is at record highs, yes of course it is not as good as what it actually sounds as most input prices are now also at record highs but you really are coming across that you want the beef price to drop rather than go up to prove your point about Brexit.

At least the beef price is half decent unlike wool with still no word on if we will actually get paid anything for the 2020 wool clip or not!!

 

[gone up the hill]

30 cows I think, but another one coming up I think. More mixed farms packing up I think.

Now is the time to go into suckler farming if you are in a low TB area and have access to decent grazing/ cheapish straw etc.

 

[Northern territory]

Now is the time to go into suckler farming if you are in a low TB area and have access to decent grazing/ cheapish straw etc.

Neither of those around here, but I think quality beef cattle will be in demand going forward. Otherwise we are going to be solely reliant on the dairy bred cattle.

 

[MDL POWERUP]

Now is the time to go into suckler farming if you are in a low TB area and have access to decent grazing/ cheapish straw etc.

Sounds like the worst, massive cost to buy them and by the time you're ready to sell anything the roller coaster will be at the bottom again

 

[Mc115reed]

Depends if they make it or not??

They’re all still in good condition now carrying 6-8 week old lambs on them and I’m all lowland grass really not hard going so I don’t see why they wouldn’t but also will I just want too lynch myself come tupping time when I go through everything and what was missing 1 tooth at lambing has no bloody teeth

 

[livestock 1]

Frank, trade is at record highs, yes of course it is not as good as what it actually sounds as most input prices are now also at record highs but you really are coming across that you want the beef price to drop rather than go up to prove your point about Brexit.

At least the beef price is half decent unlike wool with still no word on if we will actually get paid anything for the 2020 wool clip or not!!

Yes totally with you with this GUTH!

 

[livestock 1]

They’re all still in good condition now carrying 6-8 week old lambs on them and I’m all lowland grass really not hard going so I don’t see why they wouldn’t but also will I just want too lynch myself come tupping time when I go through everything and what was missing 1 tooth at lambing has no bloody teeth

One of the biggest mistakes and easiest thing to misjudge is keeping ewes for just one more year!!
One year come March your chickens will come home to roost and one morning you will think someone has been out with a machine gun!!

 

[Mc115reed]

Depends if they make it or not??

They’re all still in good condition now carrying 6-8 week old lambs on them and I’m all lowland grass really not hard going so I don’t see why they wouldn’t but also will I just want too lynch myself come tupping time when I go through everything and what was missing 1 tooth at lambing has no bloody teeth

 

[livestock 1]

They’re all still in good condition now carrying 6-8 week old lambs on them and I’m all lowland grass really not hard going so I don’t see why they wouldn’t but also will I just want too lynch myself come tupping time when I go through everything and what was missing 1 tooth at lambing has no bloody teeth

A lot of ewes look good in September that won’t see April

 

[Sheepykid]

I bought a load last year, only touched 1 of them at lambing time, checked them over in the pens and the majority only had 1 tooth missing... with prices the way they’re gonna be this year for replacements am I mad too consider running them again? [emoji85]

I think like @livestock 1 said. I wouldn’t risk running them again. Having said that one thing you could do is pick them hard at Xmas time and send anything not up to it for meat. Obviously dependant on when you put the ram in. And then lamb the rest. But I think the trade for ewes will settle back down. You could end up missing selling them for a profit and be able to replace them for 50-60 quid again. A year younger to. After saying all that who knows what’s right to do.

 

[Hilly]

Now is the time to go into suckler farming if you are in a low TB area and have access to decent grazing/ cheapish straw etc.

Fundamental floor their , cheap straw no longer exists and I’d say this weeks weather has kyboshed cheap straw already and we miles off harvest.

 

[serf]

Sounds like the worst, massive cost to buy them and by the time you're ready to sell anything the roller coaster will be at the bottom again

Yes, I agree good time to sell , but maybe not so to buy .

 

[Skintagain]

Fundamental floor their , cheap straw no longer exists and I’d say this weeks weather has kyboshed cheap straw already and we miles off harvest.

It’s fecked the grass job too gunna be chasing grass all year now

 

[livestock 1]

It’s fecked the grass job too gunna be chasing grass all year now

Things can change sharp this time of year

 

[Hilly]

It’s fecked the grass job too gunna be chasing grass all year now

Grass can come and go , it’s gone but it can come back with vengeance and grow bumper crops yet , cereals get massively stressed that’s it . Next year .

 

[cattleman123]

Now is the time to go into suckler farming if you are in a low TB area and have access to decent grazing/ cheapish straw etc.

Thats a no no this year...grass keep is off the clock...as is straw etc...most keep in my area is driving on towards 200 acre

 

[andybk]

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A lot of ewes look good in September that won’t see April

jan-march , can hammer old sheep ,lent an old tup to neighbour for 6 ewes he was in reasonable nick came back like Belsen victim , just old pasture

 

[Skintagain]

Grass can come and go , it’s gone but it can come back with vengeance and grow bumper crops yet , cereals get massively stressed that’s it . Next year .

I don’t like it so bare now but I wouldn’t want to be arable atm