Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Leicestershire
Few degrees wouldn't go amiss either!
casper74
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
J36 store cattle have been a good trade, the edge is off them at the moment, the better cattle were better value today, some plain common things look very dear in comparison.
Thirsk cattle must have been a very good trade going by what mine sold for today.
Thirsk cattle must have been a very good trade going by what mine sold for today.
And to think they didn’t want weight 6 months since.
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
Aye softer type grazing cattle would be easier bought in Ayr today. Big cattle and outwintered types still a big trade.
Would of had my pants down deadweight
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Surely if they were £20 less, there’s enough different buyers and farmers, to pick them up and take them elsewhere?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Did you sell them amongst the bulls?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
With those weights it makes sense
Bullocks don't seem to sell as well among the clean even though its the same buyers
harperfarmer
Member
A lot did just that when we used to sell everything there. Coultons, Griffiths etc. A lot of those ewes would wind up at Newark on a Saturday and take decent profit on them.
livestock 1
Member
Strange how trade is different from mart to mart
harperfarmer
Member
It might be me but I often think places can go 'stale' especially if numbers start to drop/there isn't the impetus to push on and expand. Whilst trade can pick up elsewhere those places tend to accept that the price they were is what they are and things just stagnate. Also think that it never hurts for auctioneers to visit other places to keep their finger on the pulse but that's just me.
livestock 1
Member
There’s folks I know buy sheep out of certain auctions and sell them in others
They have done it for years so must pay
Mixedupfarmer
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
Depends how good the auctioneer is and how whether they let the buyers mess them about.
Massive sale at mcCartneys Brecon tomorrow of show cattle and store cattle all streamed live and i see Hereford has a record entry of 1200 cattle a week today. Do many markets still have a draw to determine where they start the sale? Brecon still use it and im not for or against, just asking.
@cattleman123 did you go South Molton today? Looks like trade was bit better today?
- Location
- Black Isle
Had 447p for a U grade heifer this week, 377kg £1685..... where it needs to be really